midterm

socrates compared himself to

a midwife

a paradigmatic individual is ____

a rare person whose very nature represents something elemental about the human condition

socrates' jury consisted of ____

about 500 athenian citizens

another name for a paradigmatic individual is _____

an archetypal individual

according to the melchert text, conversations with socrates generally end with

argument that a satisfactory answer hadn't been reached

Socrates said that to have no wants is

divine

socrates used sarcasm as a technique for keeping his listeners alert and involved

false

the socratic dialectic is an especially moving speech, one that raises powerful emotions

false

according to the Melchert text, we know about socrates primarily

from plato's dialogues

socrates thought he possessed ___ wisdom

human

socrates believed that ____

humans always seek what they perceived to be their own welfare

once convicted, socrates was expected to ___ at the next stage of his trial

humiliate himself

according to socrates, all evil is ____

ignorance

for socrates, temperance meant _____

indifference to presence or absence of material pleasures

socrates used ___ to communicate on more than one level

irony

Thrasymachus tells socrates that justice ___

is defined as the interest of the stronger party

socrates believes that

it is better to suffer injustice than to do it

socrates thought that the first step toward wisdom _____

must begin with an honest admission of our present ignorance

what was the oracle at Delphi's ambiguous reply to the question: is anyone wiser than socrates

no man is wiser than socrates

jaspers refers to socrates' profession of ignorance as ____

non knowledge

socrates considered himself to be a kind of _______

physician of the soul

the two main sources of information about Socrates are

plato and xenophon

________ is what we think of today as a combination of the mind and soul

psyche

socrates believed that human excellence was based on a special kind of knowledge that the Greeks referred to as a ____

techne

a vital aspect of socratic teaching was ____

the active involvement of the audience

intellectualism is _____

the claim that behavior is always controlled by beliefs about what is good

socrates identified the soul with

the conscious self

the socratic method begins with the assumption that

the function of education is to draw the truth out of the student

socrates believed that ________ is the essence of humanness

the human soul

the socratic method is also known as ___

the socratic dialectic

what did socrates say about the unexamined life

the unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates believed that the teacher's role is to draw wisdom and clarity out of a disordered and confused soul

true

Socrates insisted that the "real person" is not the body, but the psyche.

true

it is almost impossible to separate what Socrates taught from his whole personality

true

socrates asserted that a life devoid of philosophical speculation is not fully functioning and so lacks virtue or excellence

true

socrates believed that an individual who is at the mercy of bodily pleasure has no concern for virtue in any form

true

athenian trials consisted of _____ parts

two

according to the melchert text, in discussions with others, socrates

was happy to be refuted