2 Flashcards
in the dialogue _____ written by Plato, Socrates indicates that pleasure and pain fail to provide an objective standard for determining moral from immoral since they do not exist from one another
Gorgias
in _____, Socrates asks _____ whther something is good because gods loves it, or whether gods love ut because it is good.
Euthyphro
Central to Plato’s philosophy is his _________ - the objectively existing immaterial entities that are the proper object of knowledge.
theory of Forms
everything in the material world is what it is by virtue of its resemblance to, or in participation in, this universal form or ____
idea
______ therefore is regarded as knowledge and can be taught
Virtue
__________ is considered as the source of guidance in moral decision-making that to know the good, it is argued, is to do the good.
Knowledge of the Good