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What did socrates want to discover?
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Something important, the essential nature of knowledge, justice, beauty, goodness, and especially traits of good character such as COURAGE.
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What are the 2 names for the method used by Socrates?
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Socratic (or Dialectic) Method.
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How did Socrates interpret the Delphi Oracles?
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He thought the pronouncement reffered to the fact that he, unlike most people, was aware of his ignorance.
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What 3 dialogues of Plato deal with the trial and execution of Socrates?
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Apology, Crito, Phaedo
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How did Socrates die?
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By drinking Hemlock.
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Who was Socrates most famous student?
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Plato and Aristotle (plato's student)
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What formed the model christian theology for 15 centuries?
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Platonic Metaphysics
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Which one of Platos dialogues is the most famous?
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Republic
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What is Platos theory of forms?
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"What is truly real is not the objects we encounter in sensory experience but rather forms.
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Do the forms exist in the physical worls, according to Plato?
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No.
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What are the characteristics of the forms?
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Eternal, Unchanging, Unmoving, Indivisible.
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By "the real world" does Plato mean the world that you experience with your senses?
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Yes
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What is meant by the "two-realms concept"
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1st realm of particular, changing and sensible. 2nd realm is of Eternal, Fixed and Perfect
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What 3 forms did Plato believe are of higher order than the other forms?
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Truth, beauty, and goodness.
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What is skepticism, and how did the existence of skepticism influence Plato?
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Skeptic= is a doubter, a person who doubts that knowledge is possible.
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What did Cratylus believe?
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He believed that everything, everyone, and everything we say constantly changes.
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Were Xenophanes and Gorgias skeptics or did they think knowledge is possible?
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Both were skeptic
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Who was the best known Sophist philosopher?
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Protagoras
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How did Plato interpret protagoras claim that "man is the measure of all things?"
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Meaning that their is no absolute knowledge
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What argument does Plato present against Protagoras skepticism in his dialogue, Theatetus?
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Plato points out that is Protagoras is correct everyones view are equal, then someone who views Protagoras view as false is correct.
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What reasons did Plato have for thinkinng that the claim"knowledge may be equated with sense experience" is false.
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1st- Knowledge involves more than sense perception
2nd- you can retain knowledge even after you are no longer sensing a thing 3rd- sence perception and knowledge canno be one and the same |
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What is the theory of the divided line, according to Plato?
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Plato uses it to contrast knowledge, on one hand, with mere belief or opinion.
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What is the Myth Cave?
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It shows how and why human beings are in the dark about the truth of things.
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What is Anamnesis?
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Each Individual has its own inmortal soul a perfect se of forms that can be remembered.
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How does Plato define love in THE SYMPOSIUM?
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Love as longing for and striving to attain the object of longing.
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To reach higher stages of love, what must we enter, according to Plato?
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We must enter what is called THE MYSTERIES
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