philosophy set 3

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Socrates says the only objection to his staying advanced by Crito that matters concerns...

whether or not it is just

according to socrates a sophist is someone who makes the

worse argument stronger

The laws, says Socrates, give the citizens...

life

socrates believes that true wisdom lies in knowing

one is not wise ( ie. in knowing that one does not know)

according to socrates a cosmologist is someone who

reduces natural events to matter in motion

According to Anaxamenes, everything is made of _____.

air

Socrates is the first philosopher to develop a rich understanding of...

community

The goal of ancient philosophy is...

community

According to Anaxagoras, change is caused by _____.

divine mind

Anaxamenes states that when water becomes more dense it becomes _____.

earth

Philosophy is the science of...

existence

The goal of modern philosophy is...

freedom

A lawful superior is someone who...

gives one a good that one could not give oneself

Ethics is the science of...

goodness

Crito tells Socrates that if he allows himself to be executed the following two things will happen to him:

he will lose a dear friend and gain a reputation for loving money

Anaxamenes holds that when things become more condensed they become _____.

heavier

The Crito opens as Socrates waits in prison for...

his execution

In the statement, "Socrates is human," the predicate is...

human

In the syllogism, "Socrates is human, humans are rational, so Socrates is rational," the middle term is...

humans

Socrates says that he believes he knows the date of his execution because...

in a vision he had he was given the date by a beautiful lady

socrates claims that no one intentionally harms ones friends because a friend

is another self, and no one harms oneself

One of Crito's reasons for instructing Socrates to flee the city is that...

its not just to stay in the city

Diotima provided Socrates with a definition of _____.

love

In the statement, "Romans love flowers," the predicate is...

love flowers

socrates thinks that it is honorable to

obey

socrates thinks that his words are

only beautiful if one thinks that the truth is beautiful

socrates divine mission is to give the citizens of Athens

the gift of wisdom

In order to demonstrate the importance of obeying the law Socrates asks Crito to imagine that...

the laws of the city have come alive

The goals identified for modern, medieval, and ancient philosophy represent...

the majority of philosophical writings at this time

socrates defines obedience as

the subordination of the lower to the higher

socrates divine mission becomes a problem when

the youth of the city imitate him

Crito tells Socrates that he will be executed in...

two days

In the statement, "The lily is beautiful," the subject is...

The lily

The character Socrates is ______

a spokesman for Plato's ideas

Medieval philosophy expands the idea of community developed by ancient philosophy to...

angles, saints, and the Creator

The goal of medieval philosophy is...

beatitude

According to Diotima, human fulfillment comes from the contemplation of the...

beautiful

Diotima's philosophy focused, in part, on the nature of the _____.

beautiful

In the syllogism, "Lilies are beautiful, what is beautiful is pleasing, so lilies are pleasing," the middle term is...

beautiful/what is beautiful

According to Alcibiades, Socrates was an excellent...

soldier

Socrates was the son of a _____.

stone cutter or sculpter

The middle term binds the...

subject and predicate of the conclusion

In the Crito Socrates says that justice is...

subordination to a superior

The predicate of a sentence is...

what is said about the subject

The following is an example of a syllogism/argument...

x is y and y is z: therefore, x is z


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