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What was the primary focus of Socrates’ philosophy?

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Ethics

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What were Socrates’ dates?

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c.470-399 BCE

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Where was Socrates from?

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Athens

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On what charges was Socrates condemned to death?

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Impiety and corrupting the youth

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Other than Plato, which of Socrates’ pupils wrote dialogues which contribute to our picture of him?

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Xenophon

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What were the title and author of the famous satirical play about Socrates?

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‘The Clouds’ by Aristophanes

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Which handsome statesman claimed to be in love with Socrates?

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Alcibiades

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Who was the wife of Socrates?

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Xantippe

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Who was told by the oracle at Delphi that Socrates was the wisest man living?

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Chaerephon

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Why did Socrates think the oracle at Delphi called him the wisest man living?

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Because he knew that he knew nothing

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Which famous playwright was a friend of Socrates?

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Euripides

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What is the ‘Socratic method’ or ‘elenchus’?

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Ask an interlocutor for the definition for a concept then demonstrate that this definition is inconsistent with the interlocutor’s other beliefs

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What is ‘arete’?

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Virtue or excellence

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What was virtue a kind of, according to Socrates?

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Knowledge

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Socrates believed in the ‘unity of the virtues’. What is this?

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If a person has one of the virtues, he has all of them

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All the early dialogues end in aporia. What is this?

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Inconclusiveness, no definition being found

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What four virtues did Socrates consider to be most important?

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1) Courage
2) Justice
3) Temperance
4) Wisdom

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What were Plato’s dates?

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c.425-347 BCE

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Where was Plato from?

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Athens

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What is thought to have been Plato’s real name?

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Aristocles

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In what year was Athens defeated by Sparta?

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404 BCE

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According to Plato, what is the inevitable result of political turmoil?

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A tyrant stepping in to restore order

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Which Greek city did Plato advise and influence with his political ideas?

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Syracuse (Sicily)

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Which important dialogue marks Plato’s move away from concluding in aporia?

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The Meno

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What were the two realms, according to Plato?
The Realm of Being and the Realm of Becoming
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What are three characteristics of Plato's Forms?
1) Eternal 2) Perfect 3) Unchanging
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What does anamnesis mean?
Unforgetting
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What is Plato's 'theory of recollection'?
Knowledge is obtained by remembering things from ones soul's disembodied state in the Realm of Being
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What does the sun represent in Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
The form of the Good
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What distinguishes knowledge from true belief according to Plato?
Satisfactory justification
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What virtue, in individuals and states, is the subject of Plato's Republic?
Justice
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What are the three groups in Plato's ideal society?
1) Guardians 2) Warriors 3) The rest
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In the Republic, what is justice according to Thrasymachus?
Whatever the strong wish to do
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According to Plato, what are the three parts of the soul?
1) Reason 2) Spirit 3) Appetite
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What is the degenerative sequence of forms of government according to Plato?
1) Aristocracy (meritocratic) 2) Epistocracy 3) Timocracy 4) Oligarchy (plutocratic) 5) Democracy 6) Anarchy 7) Tyranny
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What is 'epistocracy'?
Rule by those who know (experts)
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What is 'timocracy'? (In Plato's sense)
Rule by those who seek honor, status, and military glory
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What is 'oligarchy'? (In Plato's sense)
Rule by the rich (plutocracy)
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What is justice in states and souls according to Plato?
Balance (harmony) between the three parts
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What are realism and nominalism?
Realists think universals exist and nominalists don't
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In what dialogue does Plato challenge his own idea of the Forms?
The Parmenides
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According to Plato, do things like mud, hair, and dirt have Forms?
No
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According to Plato, do things like equality and plurality have forms?
Yes
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What is the 'Third Man' problem?
1) A man is a man because he resembles the Form of Man 2) But there must be a second Form of Man to explain this first resemblance 3) And a third Form to explain this second resemblance, etc.
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In what dialogue does Plato challenge his theory of knowledge as justified true belief?
The Theaetetus
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When was the Academy closed by the Roman emperor Justinian?
529 CE
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What were Aristotle's dates?
c.384-322 BCE
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Where was Aristotle born?
Stagira (Macedonia)
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At what age did Aristotle begin studying under Plato?
Eighteen
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To which famous leader was Aristotle a tutor?
Alexander the Great
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Where was Aristotle's school located?
The Lyceum (Athens)
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What was Aristotle's school called?
The Peripatetic school
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Why did Alexander call for Aristotle's arrest?
He though Aristotle was part of a conspiracy to assassinate him
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What charge was brought against Aristotle?
Impiety
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What was the overarching division in Aristotle's system of knowledge?
Theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy
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What are the three components of theoretical philosophy? (Aristotle)
1) Metaphysics (First philosophy) 2) Mathematics 3) Physics (nature)
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What is the focus of practical philosophy? (Aristotle)
Politics (which includes ethics)
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What did Aristotle call the science of logic?
Analytics
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What is the 'Organon'? What does the word mean?
Aristotle's writings on logic. It means 'instrument'.
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What did Aristotle consider to be the fundamental unit of logical interest?
The proposition
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What are the two chief components of a proposition? (Aristotle)
The subject and the predicate
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What is the subject of a proposition?
That about which something true or false is asserted
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What is the predicate of a proposition?
What is asserted about the subject
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What are the four main categories? (Aristotle)
1) Substance 2) Quality 3) Quantity 4) Relation
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What type of proposition is 'all As are B'?
Universal affirmative
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What type of proposition is 'no As are B'?
Universal negative
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What type of proposition is 'some As are B'?
Particular affirmative
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What type of proposition is 'some As are not B'?
Particular negative
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What are Aristotles 'five words'? (Ways in which a predicate can relate to a subject)
1) Genus 2) Species (Definition) 3) Difference 4) Property 5) Accident
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What are Aristotle's 'four causes'?
1) Material 2) Efficient 3) Formal 4) Final
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What is the self-caused 'first mover' (God) according to Aristotle?
Pure thought thinking about itself
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What kind of souls do all animate things have according to Aristotle?
Nutritive souls
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What additional aspect do the souls of all animals have according to Aristotle?
A sensitive aspect
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What additional aspect do the the souls of human beings have according to Aristotle?
A rational aspect
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What is the efficient, formal, and final cause for a living thing?
The soul
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What is the highest art according to Aristotle?
Politics
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What were Aristotles two ethical treatises?
1) The Eudemian Ethics | 2) Nicomachean Ethics
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What makes eudaemonia the highest end for Aristotle?
It is desired for its own sake and not as a means to a further end
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According to Aristotle, what was the worst fault of Plato's theory of Forms?
Its inability to explain change in the realm of Becoming
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Which philosopher thought there was nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses?
Aristotle
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What is sensation for Aristotle?
The body carrying the world's forms to the soul
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What are the fundamental things upon which 'accidents' like color supervene? (Aristotle)
Substances
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What is eudaemonia for humans? (Aristotle)
Rational activity of the soul in accordance with virtue
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What are the two kinds of virtue? (Aristotle)
1) Those of mind | 2) Those of character
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How does Aristotle define virtue?
The middle path between opposing vices
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How does Aristotle define human beings?
Political animals
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For Aristotle, what was the ideal size for a state?
Small, where the voice of the town crier can be heard from one end to the other.
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What shape is the universe according to Aristotle?
A sphere
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What is another word for aether?
Quintessence (fifth essence)
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What is the natural motion of the aether? (Aristotle)
Circular
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What label did Thomas Aquinas bestow upon Aristotle?
The Philosopher

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