LECTURE 4: PLATO Flashcards
Known as the “Wise Ones” because they claimed that they could teach wisdom as a “techne” or skill; the first professional teachers who had mastered the art of rhetoric
Sophists
This sophist quoted, “Virtue is not one but many; virtue depends on one’s status in life.”
Gorgias
This sophist quoted, “Man is the measure of all things.”
Protagoras
This sophist quoted, “Justice or righteousness is in accordance with the interest of the stronger party.”
Thrasymachus
The process of taking on and embracing the hypothesis/argument of your opponent as if you agree with it but later show its inherent contradiction, which will make the argument look absurd.
Dialectics
Timeline of Socrates
470 - 399 BC
Timeline of Plato
428 - 348 BC
True or False: Socrates never wrote anything in his lifetime.
True
True or False: What we know about Socrates mainly came from Aristotle’s accounts particularly in the early dialogues, where Socrates was the main character, as well as the middle dialogues.
False. It was Plato, not Aristotle.
Socrates was punished with the death sentence via drinking poison from a plant called ______.
Hemlock
He was an absolutist and idealist.
Plato
”.. so the entire soul must be turned away from the changing world until its _____ can bear to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor called the ______.”
eye ; good
“One thing only I know, and that is that I know ______.”
Nothing
Recognizing one’s ignorance and limitations before achieving knowledge.
Aporia
Noetic insight and _________ ——-> True knowledge using the ‘______ of the mind’
enlightenment ; eye
