Philosophy

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Socrates charged people money to listen to his teachings.

False

Socrates claims, in Crito, that it is very important to ensure that the opinion of the majority is in your favor.

False (He believes that often times the opinion of the majority is unimportant/wrong)

Plato thinks that democracy is the best form of government.

False (he believes it leads to tyranny)

After being found guilty at his trial, Socrates was sentenced to exile on the islands of Lesbos.

False (he was sentenced to death)

Socrates argues, in the Crito, that it is morally permissible for him to break the laws of Athens when they are unjust.

False (the ends do not justify the means)

Thales, the individual who is traditionally identified as the first of the Greek philosophers, claimed that air is the fundamental substance out of which all other entities are composed.

False (water is correct)

Socrates claims that the really important thing is not to live, but to _________ .

Live well

The central moral principle that Socrates puts forward in the Crito is:

One must never do wrong.

According to the testimony of Alcibiades, __________________________________________________________ .

Socrates once stood outside all day and all night thinking.

In the Apology, it is reported that ____________________ claimed that no man was wiser than Socrates.

The Oracle at Delphi

In the Apology, Socrates is charged with the crimes of ____________________ and _______________________________________________________ .

Corrupting the youth; Creating new gods/failing to worship the gods of Athens

According to Plato, the Forms are entities that exist outside of space and time.

True

Socrates believes that no one knowingly __________ .

does wrong

Socrates encounters Euthyphro at the courthouse, where Euthyphro intends to prosecute his father for the crime of ______.

murder

In the Myth of the Cave, ____________________________________________________________________ .

the prisoners represent all of us before we begin to search for wisdom

Hesiod claimed to write his poems:

through divine inspiration.

The One of Parmenides is:

unchanging, all alike, and eternal.

The main thing Socrates wants Euthyphro to teach him is __________________________ .

what makes something pious.

In the Phaedo, Socrates claims that the body desires pleasures of the flesh while the soul desires ______ .

wisdom

Pythagoras was the first of the early Greek thinkers to identify himself as a "lover of wisdom," i.e., a philosopher.

True

Socrates argues, before the jury in the Apology, that, in view of his conviction, he ought to be sentenced to receive free meals in the Prytaneum.

True

Socrates claims, in the Apology, that if his fellow citizens convict and sentence his unjustly, they will harm themselves more than they will harm him.

True

The Sophists were often charged with "making the weaker argument appear to be the stronger one."

True

Where does the conversation between Crito and Socrates take place?

a jail

Dialectic is:

a technique for helping others by raising objections to what they believe.

Identify the Sophists who claimed that "man is the measure of all things."

Protagoras

According to __________ all things are in flux, like a river.

Heraclitus

What does Plato identify as the highest level of reality?

The Form of the Good

What happens to someone who puts on the Ring of Gyges?

They become invisible

Zeno argues that:

an arrow cannot move at all, even though it seems to us that it does

In the Phaedo, Socrates spends his last hours ____________________________________________________ before finally drinking the poison that will kill him.

conversing with his friends about the immortality of the soul

The early Greeks, following Homer, understood justice to be:

everyone getting his due.

The one thing that Socrates most confidently claims to know is that ______________ .

he is ignorant

Knowing something, according to Plato, ________________________________ .

puts you in touch with reality

According to Plato, there are three parts of the soul: desire, spirit, and ______ .

reason


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