Mid-term

Which of the following ancient philosophers could be described as a monotheist of some sort or other?

Xenophanes

Socrates is famous for claiming which of the following?

That he did not know, that is, that he was ignorant

"The cosmos is a flame" was a metaphor used by which philosopher?

Heraclitus

The idea that we have formed the gods simply as an image of ourselves was first proposed by which ancient philosopher?

Xenophanes

Which of the following are major sources for the historical Socrates? More than one answer might be possible.

Xenophon; Plato

Xenophanes described our knowledge as

A woven web of guesses

According to Socrates in the Meno, knowledge is true belief plus what?

An account

Which of the following is a historical source for the life of Socrates?

Aristophanes

Xenophanes denied that any of our beliefs are true. True or false?

False

Which of the following is a complete list of the transcendentals?

Good, Truth, Unity, Being

Which of the following gives the correct order of the divided line from bottom to top?

Images, changeable objects, mathematical objects, Forms

In the dialog, the Meno, Plato argues that what should be counted as knowledge is true belief plus an account. What does Plato think the account should be?

Recollection

The sophists were fundamentally teachers of . . .

Rhetoric

Socrates proves that learning is 'recollection' by doing which of the following?

Showing a slave boy how to double the area of a square.

What is one reason that Plato would have been attracted to the idea of the Forms?

They can be defined—in principle at least—in the way Socrates was seeking.

In the Meno, what is the function of an account, according to Plato?

To tie down true belief so that it cannot change or fly away.

According to Plato, which of the following things can you actually know?

Triangle and other geometrical objects

In what year was Socrates put to death?

399 BCE

On the divided line, what do Forms and Mathematical Objects have in common?

They both do not change.

Which of the following best describes the Socratic Method of inquiry?

A dialog featuring a question and answer format with Socrates as the questioner.

Of what crime was Socrates accused?

Corrupting the youth

Which of the following was a disciple or follower of Socrates? More than one answer might be possible.

Critias; Plato

What is one of the main reasons that Socrates wanted a definition?

It would show that item defined was known in a distinctively human way.

In the Meno, Socrates distinguishes between which two things?

Knowledge and true opinion

Which of the following was one of the reasons Socrates thought that knowledge was better than true belief?

Knowledge cannot change, but a true opinion can.

Which of the following best describes why Legos are a good analogy with Democritean atoms?

Like atoms, Legos do not change, just the arrangement they are in changes.

In Plato's theory of the divided line, what is it that infects everything in the bottom half of the divided line and causes those things to be susceptible to change?

Non - being

What is below the divided line?

Non-being

Which of the philosophers that we have studied conceived of the basic building blocks of reality to be small indivisible particles that hooked together in various ways?

None of the above (Democritus)

Which of the following philosophers believed in reincarnation?

None of the above (Pythagoreans,Plato)

What is at the very top of Plato's divided line?

None of the above (nothing goes above)

One philosopher claimed that we make our gods in our image. Who was that philosopher?

None of the above (Xenophanes)

Which of the following best summarizes Parmenides' claims about change?

None of the above (believed that nothing changed)

"That which is, is; and that which is not, is not; and you cannot say that that which is, is not, nor that that which is not, is." Which ancient philosopher said this?

Parmenides

Which of the pre-Socratics first discovered that the phases of the moon were not the moon "blushing", but were just shadows that fall on the face of the moon?

Parmenides

According to Plato, what is the relationship between the unchanging world and the changing world?

The changing world is a moving copy of the unchanging world.

Socrates always said which of the following?

The one who knows should be the one who rules!