Plato: Philosophy And Liberal Education Flashcards
1
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Eros
A
The desire to see the forms of things
2
Q
What is the form of a thing?
A
That which makes it intelligible. For example, what allows us to identify a chair as a chair and not something else.
3
Q
What is the image of the divided line?
A
An image in Book VI of the Republic divided into two realms: the visible and the intelligible.
4
Q
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
A
Man in his natural condition is like a prisoner trapped in a cave and forced to look at images on the walls. Philosophy is the movement from the images, to the image-makers, to the form, and finally to the idea of good.
5
Q
What are the five studies of Plato’s liberal education?
A
Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, and dialectic
