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1
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Which Philosopher was put to death for asking too many questions?

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Socrates

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Why does Socrates not fit in?

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He was ugly and annoying, but brilliant.

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What did Socrates do as a young man?

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He fought in the Peloponnesian wars against the Spartans.

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What did Socrates do in middle age?

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He stopped strangers in public and asked them weird questions.

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What did Socrates conversation with Euthydemus show?

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Socrates forced Euthydemus to think on a deeper level about something that he thought was obvious, but really wasn’t.

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What did Socrates do generally with the people he met in public?

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He confused them by revealing the limits of what they understood and questioning their assumptions.

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What did the sons of rich men do in Athens?

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They were sent to study with Sophists who charged a lot of money.

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How was Socrates different from the Sophists?

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He did not charge anything for his services since he claimed not to know anything. Students kept coming to listen to him and the Sophists did not like him.

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Who was the oracle of the Apollo at Delphi?

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A wise old woman, a sibyl, who told Socrates friend Chaerophon that no one is wiser than Socrates

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How did Socrates respond when Chaerophon told him what the sibyl had said?

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He was surprised that he was considered the wisest man in Athens, given how little he knew, but then he realized that the Oracle had been right, and no one knew what they were talking about.

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Where does the word “philosopher” come from?

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The Greek words meaning “love of wisdom”

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What kind of wisdom is philosophy based on?

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Argument, reasoning, and questions, not just facts and understanding the true nature of our existence and the limits of what we can know

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How does philosophy today compare to what Socrates was doing?

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It is similar, but today, there are 2 1/2 thousand more years to work with.

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What made Socrates so wise?

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He always asked questions and was always willing to debate his ideas.

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What was unusual about Socrates?

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He refused to write anything down.

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Why does Socrates believe that talking was better than writing?

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Written words cannot answer questions and when we talk to people, we can adapt to people we are talking to.

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Who was Plato?

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Socrates best student

18
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How do we know so much about Socrates, given that he refused to write anything down?

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Plato wrote down conversations between Socrates and the people he questioned. These are known as the platonic dialogues and are great works of literature and philosophy.

19
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What is ambiguous about the platonic dialogues?

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We don’t really know that it all came from Socrates or if some of what he wrote were actually Plato’s ideas.

20
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What is one idea that most people believe is Plato’s rather than Socrates?

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The world is not at all as it seems or that there is a significant difference between reality and how things appear. Plato believed that only philosophers understand what the world is actually like because they discover reality by thinking.

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What is Plato’s cave analogy?

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It is an analogy to show that Philosophers are really the only ones who see reality because of their ability to think deeply. Ordinary people do not see reality because they focus on appearances without thinking.

22
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What is Plato’s Theory of Forms?

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It says that if you want to understand what something is, you need to focus on their form and not particular examples of it that you see. It is abstract thinking.

23
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What did Plato believe with respect to philosopher’s power?

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That philosopher’s should be in charge and have all the political power

24
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What was Plato’s most famous work?

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In the Republic, which he described an imaginary perfect society

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Describe Plato’s perfect imaginary society?

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There are three groups of people. 1. Philosophers are at the top and get a special education, but they sacrifice their own pleasure for the people they rule. 2. Beneath them are the soldiers who defend the country. 3. Beneath the soldiers are the workers.

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Why did Plato’s imaginary perfect society never happen?

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It was anti-democratic

27
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How was Fifth-century Athens different from Plato’s perfect imaginary society?

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Fifth-century Athens was sort of a democracy while Plato’s was not at all.

28
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What did Athens as a whole think of Socrates?

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They did not value him as highly as Plato did.

29
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Who took Socrates to court and why?

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An Athenian named Meletus in 399 BC, 70 years ago, because he claimed that Socrates was neglecting the Athenian gods, introducing new gods, and encouraging young men to turn against the authorities

30
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What was the result of the court case?

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They sentenced him to death.

31
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How did Socrates respond to his death sentence?

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He argued that he should be rewarded by getting free meals for life instead of being punished. He was forced to drink poison to die and told students that he would rather die than stop asking the difficult questions.

32
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Who was Aristotle?

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Plato’s best student

33
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Astray

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Away from the correct path or direction

34
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Genuinely

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In a truthful way

35
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Podgy

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Fat and chubby

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Profoundly

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Extremely

37
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Pupil

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Student in school

38
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Oracle

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A Priest

39
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Deceitful

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Guilty of misleading others

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Shabby

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In poor condition through long or hard use or lack of care

41
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Hemlock

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Highly poisonous European plant of the parsley family, with a purple-spotted stem, fern-like leaves, small white flowers, and an unpleasant smell

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Charisma

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Attractiveness or charm towards others

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