Plato and Socrates

Question 1

Define ontology

Answer 1

The nature of being as its presented

Question 2

Plato was a student of BLANK and taught BLANK

Answer 2

Socrates, Aristotle

Question 3

What are the 3 things Plato takes away from Socrates?

Answer 3

1. Unrelenting questioning not theories
2. Dialogue (movement through opposition)
3. Eternal essence
   -Truth
   -He is interested in objects of knowledge (human concerns/affairs)- language (logos), justice, love, virtue, soul

Question 4

What 3 things does a dialogue (movement through opposition) need?

Answer 4

-Needs two people
-Speak the same language
-Opposing views and faiths

Question 5

What is Platos theory of forms?

(3pts)

Answer 5

-Metaphysical theory/theory of knowledge: Theory of forms

-Meta= Beyond
-Physical= Nature
=Beyond the natural world we live in

-He believed in the existence of an immaterial world with perfect ideas/forms and objects. He believed that objects and ideas/forms of the real world (material world) were copies of the immaterial world (metaphysical world)

-Explains the existence of the essence of things beyond the physical world using concepts of reason.

-How can we know the truth of things, in this case, the essence of things beyond the world of the senses

Question 6

What is Platos ? (3pts)

Answer 6

-fundamentally a mathematician
-a rationalist
-a sophist= uses wisdom or cleverness to get paid

Question 7

What is the allegory of the cave?
(3pts)

Answer 7

-Conflict between belief and knowledge
-Things in the physical world are flawed reflections of ideal forms
-Leaves fundamental questions; the orgin of knowledge, the problem of representation, the nature of reality itself