Socrates Quiz

21. Ariston's two sons in the Republic: _________________ and ___________________. Their (now) famous brother is ___________.

Adeimantus; Glaucon; Plato

19. The two parts of the Noble Lie in the Republic are the _____________ Myth and the Myth of the ____________

Auto-Chthonian; Metals

14. When Meno asks Socrates if virtue can be taught, Socrates insists that they must first determine what virtue is. Socrates is applying the principle of _______________ ________________.

Conceptual Priority*****

4. The Oracle at ______________ said that no one is wiser than Socrates.

Delphi

1. The Republic opens with Socrates saying he went _______________ to the Piraeus.

Down

11. True or False? Socrates in the Crito holds that wrongs demand wrongs returned in retribution.

False

13. True or False? According to Socrates (and Anytus), the great Athenian gentlemen were successful in teaching their sons virtue.

False

17. True or False? Socrates holds that what 'the many' think is of great importance.

False

26. True or False? Socrates of the Republic holds that Justice must be only intrinsically good.

False

30. Meno is a student of the rhetorician _______________.

Gorgias

20. To focus Socrates' defense of Justice, Glaucon tells the story of the Lydian shepherd, _______________, who finds a magic ring...

Gyges

7. Euthyphro was at the courts to prosecute whom?

His own father

23. The Socratic Paradox of _______________________: The good man cannot be harmed.

Invulnerability

25. Socrates's taxonomic proposal in the Euthyphro: piety is a part of _______________.

Justice

24. A model for reading Socratic Dialogues: The Greek Letter ___________________.

Lambda

22. The dialogue of the Republic happens over _______________ night(s)

One

15. The rich merchant who hosts the party that occasions the Republic: _____________________. His father: ______________.

Polemarchus; Cephalus (I thought Cephalus was the host)

29. Socrates: Knowledge and true belief are like Daedalus's statues, but knowledge is like one of those statues with a __________.

Tether**********

8. Euthyphro analogizes his actions to those of what god?

Zeus

2. Socrates was charged with __________________ the young and ___________________.

corrupting; impiety

6. To close the Apology, Socrates argues that we should not _________________ death.

fear

27. Polemarchus: Justice is the ability to _____________ one's friends and to ____________ one's enemies.

help; harm

12. With Meletus, Socrates analogizes raising children to raising _________________.

horses******

3. The Socratic Paradox of moral motivation: the only explanation for evil is __________________.

ignorance****

28. Socrates' important hypothesis in the second half of the Meno: Virtue is ________________.

knowledge

10. Socrates asks Crito to imagine that they are visited by the _______________, who convince him not to flee his execution.

laws and the government******

9. Socrates' answer to Meno's paradox of inquiry is the doctrine of ________________________.

recollection******

18. The Great Analogy at the core of the Republic is that Justice in the ____________ is like Justice in the ________________ .

state, soul

16. Thrasymachus holds that justice is what is in the interest of the _________________.

stronger

5. A Socratic dictum: the ___________ __________ is not worth living.

unexamined life