Philosophy Ch. 2

After his conviction, Socrates tried to escape from jail, but he was captured and put to death.

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Heraclitus held that reality is "changeless," nothing comes into being or passes away.

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Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" was the first historical account demonstrating how man evolved from cave dwellers to city dwellers.

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Socrates and Plato both supported the sophists even though they had a different approach to philosophy.

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Thales said the "unexamined life is not worth living."

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The Sophists practiced rhetoric in order to persuade people on issues, and not to discover the truth about philosophical issues.

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The Sophists were not great public speakers, but they were successful do to their high ethical standards and love of wisdom.

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The pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander agreed with Thales that water was the basic element uniting all reality.

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The pre-Socratic philosophers were all those ancient Greek philosophers who agreed with the philosophy of Socrates.

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Ancient Greek culture was mythopoetic, based upon myths and transmitted through poetry.

True

Democritus believed that there were an infinite number of ever moving ATOMS that composed all that is.

True

In the works of the pre-socratics there is a progression from mythopoetic thought to a primitive scientific thinking in the form of speculative inquiry.

True

Meletus accuses Socrates of "impiety" and "corrupting the youth."

True

Parmenides taught that all that is has always been and always will be. Reality is that which never changes. Reality is BEING and not becoming.

True

Philosophy as developed by Socrates and Plato attempts to foster critical, dialectical thinking in the subject and that process would lead the thinker to knowledge, truth, beauty and goodness.

True

Plato believed that things are what they are because of their forms. That is, we know the form and not the thing itself. We know the group or category a thing fits into, participates in, is made real by, and not the concrete particular thing.

True

Protagoras was a famous sophist who said "man is the measure of all things"

True

Socrates believed that you could prove the existence of the soul.

True

Socrates thinks that perhaps the god has used Socrates to teach humans a lesson: that the highest wisdom they can achieve is to admit their ignorance.

True

Sophists often taught courses in topics such as: How to win friends and influence people.

True

Thales, the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, believed that "All things were made of Water."

True

The Socratic Method refers to the particular style of writing made popular by Socrates, that was latter continued by Plato.

True

The Sophists were orators, public speakers, mouths for hire in an oral culture.

True

The tales organized under Homer and Hesiod were used by the people as an encyclopedia, as the foundation of the educational system.

True

Thrasymachus was a sophist who said "Might makes right."

True