SOCRATES

Question 1

He is a greek philosopher and one of the very few individual who shaped western thought.”

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

He never wrote anything

Answer 2

Socrates

Question 3

knowledge about him are form his student plato and the historian Xenophon

Answer 3

Socrates

Question 4

Shaped wester thought

Answer 4

Socrates

Question 5

What is the socratic method

Answer 5

method of inquiry in testing an idea

tested by asking a series of questions that determines underlying beliefs and the extent of knowledge to guide the person towards better understanding (Maxwell 2015)

Question 6

what did he do that offended the leaders

Answer 6

questioning everyday views and popular athenian belief

Question 7

Socrates was accused of?

Answer 7

impiety or lack of reverence for the gods and for corrupting the minds of the youth

Question 8

At 70 years old he died because?

Answer 8

He was sentenced to death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock (Brickhouse and Smith, 2002)

Question 9

Socrates ideas includes:

Answer 9

the soul is immortal

the care of the soul is a task of philosophy

Virtue is necessary to attain happiness

Question 10

One of Socrates most quoted phrases

Answer 10

The unexamined life is not worth living

Question 11

Self-knowledge (Socrates)

Answer 11

the examination of oneself

would open our eyes to your true nature

Question 12

What should we do as a person (Socrates)

Answer 12

as a person we should consciously contemplate

Question 13

Self-knowledge and questions about how one ought to live one’s life

Answer 13

These are very important concerns because only by knowing yourself can you hope to improve your life (Rappe, 2015)

Question 14

What determines our quality of life

Answer 14

the state of our inner being (Soul/self)

Question 15

What are the 2 kinds of existence?

Answer 15

Visible and the invisible

Question 16

Visible existnce

Answer 16

changes
The is the state of the human being
The body

Question 17

Invisible existence

Answer 17

Remains constant

Invisible to humans yet sensed and understood by the minds

Question 18

What did Socrates said about the soul in the Socratic Dialogue?

Answer 18

Socrates said about the soul “when the soul and body are together nature assigned our bodies to be a slave and to be rules and the soul is the ruler and master”

Question 19

Socratic Dialogue

Answer 19

Written by plato

Question 20

What would leave the soul Confused?

Answer 20

the body was a reluctant slave, and the soul gets dragged toward what is always changing

Question 21

True goal of life (socrates)

Answer 21

To be happy

Question 22

The only and supreme good

Answer 22

A virtuous man is a happy man and that virtue alone is the one and only supreme good

Question 23

What is virtue

Answer 23

moral excellence and an individual is considered virtuous if his/her character is made up of the moral qualities that accepted as virtues

Question 24

Example of vitue

Answer 24

courage
temperance
prudence

Question 25

Why is death a trivial matter (Socrates)

Answer 25

Death is trivial matter for a virtuous man because he/she has realized that the most important things in life is the state of his/her soul and the acts taken form taking care of the soul through self-knowledge.