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
