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Chap 3:
At his trial, Socrates declares he prefers exile to death. False
Socrates thinks that the primary occupation of a good citizen should be the pursuit of wealth and
prestige. False
According to Socrates, we should always consider in doing anything whether we are doing right
or wrong. True
Socrates says death is probably bad. False
At his trial, Socrates's cross-examination shows that Meletus's position is inconsistent. True
Socrates's interest in the well-being of the soul informs his method. True
Socrates accepts the Oracle's pronouncement that no one in Athens is wiser than he. False
Socrates believes that people pursue the good if they know what it is. True
Socrates advocates moral relativism. False
Socrates often demonstrates that people who think themselves wise really are wise. False
Socrates asked his interlocutors for __________.
The correct answer was: c. definitions of ethical terms.
The
reductio ad absurdum
is a type of __________.
The correct answer was: b. argument.
Socrates claimed he did not accept __________ for teaching.
The correct answer was: d. money.
Socrates's method shows a belief in a connection between virtue and __________.
The correct answer was: a. knowledge.
A preoccupation with __________ is a clear indication, according to Socrates, that one's soul is
unhealthy.
The correct answer was: b. social status.
The
reductio ad absurdum
shows an assumption to be __________.
The correct answer was: b. false.
Socrates is concerned with __________.
The correct answer was: b. the state of one's soul.
At his trial, Socrates refuses to cease __________.
The correct answer was: d. philosophizing.
Socrates asks the Athenian jury to __________.
The correct answer was: a. listen to his words and arguments.
At his trial, Socrates declares that he will __________.
The correct answer was: c. not stop philosophizing.
For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grievous harm to the
__________.
The correct answer was: d. soul.
For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of __________.
The correct answer was: a. knowledge.
If you assume that a set of statements is true, and yet you can deduce a false or absurd statement
from it, then the original set of statements as a whole must be false. This kind of argument is
known as __________.
The correct answer was: d.
reductio ad absurdum
.
According to Socrates, a clear sign that a person has __________ is her exclusive pursuit of
social status, wealth, power, and pleasure.
The correct answer was: d. an unhealthy soul.
For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising search for
__________.
The correct answer was: b. what's true and real.
At his death, Socrates asks his friend Crito to __________.
The correct answer was: c. pay a debt.
At his trial, Socrates cross-examines __________.
The correct answer was: c. Meletus.
Atheism and __________ is the contradiction regarding the gods that Socrates says his accusers
put forth.
The correct answer was: b. creating new divinities.
Socrates claims to be a __________ for Athens's sake.
The correct answer was: a. gadfly.
Socrates claims that __________ is not to be feared.
The correct answer was: b. death.
Chap 4:
For his republic, Plato envisions an aristocracy—not an aristocracy of the rich, landed, or well
born, but of the intellectual.
The correct answer was: a. True.
A harmonious soul is one in which reason rules the other parts.
The correct answer was: a. True
Plato argues that the soul is composed of four parts.
The correct answer was: b. False.
The highest and greatest Form is the Form of the Good.
The correct answer was: a. True.
Plato holds that knowledge is recollected.
The correct answer was: a. True.
Plato argues that knowledge is derived from sense experience.
The correct answer was: b. False.
Plato's Forms are particular things.
The correct answer was: b. False.
The objects of knowledge, according to Plato, are ascertained exclusively through sense
experience.
The correct answer was: b. False.
Initially, the servant boy in the
Meno
believes he knows, but does not.
The correct answer was: a. True.
Plato believes in __________ knowledge.
The correct answer was: b. objective.
Plato rejects skepticism, the view that __________.
The correct answer was: d. we lack knowledge in some fundamental way.
Plato considers belief insufficient for knowledge, which requires that a proposition also be
__________ and __________.
The correct answer was: a. true; justified.
Plato reasons that, if truth is objective, it must also be about __________ things.
The correct answer was: b. real.
Plato calls the objectively real, eternal, and abstract entities that serve as models or universals of
higher knowledge, __________.
The correct answer was: d. Forms.
For Plato, the greatest Form is the Form of the __________.
The correct answer was: c. Good.
From the time he is freed, until he finally becomes accustomed to being outside the cave, the
prisoner experiences __________ and __________.
The correct answer was: b. confusion; pain.
According to Plato, the process of learning is a process of __________.
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