The Man Who Asked Questions

Question 1

About 2,400 years ago, a man was put to death for…

Answer 1

asking too many questions.

Question 2

In which wars and against which enemies did Socrates fought bravely as a soldier in this youth?

Answer 2

In the Peloponnesian Wars, against the Spartans and their allies.

Question 3

What Socrates used to do during middle age as he shuffled around the marketplace in Athens?

Answer 3

He stopped some people from time to time and asked them awkward questions.

Question 4

In the conversation that Socrates had with Euthydemus, how did his counter-example prove that being deceitful doesn’t always count as immoral?

Answer 4

In the mentioned hypothetical scenario, Euthydemus would be committing a deceitful act for a morally good reason.

Question 5

Socrates loved to…

Answer 5

reveal the limits of what people genuinely understood, and to question the assumptions on which they built their lives.

Question 6

What was the function of the Sophists in Athens?

Answer 6

Teaching sons of wealthy men the art of speech-making.

Question 7

Which was the answer that the oracle of Apollo gave when Chaerophon asked if there was anyone wiser than Socrates?

Answer 7

‘No, no one is wiser than Socrates.’

Question 8

Why was the oracle’s affirmation that there was nobody wiser than Socrates correct?

Answer 8

Because Socrates was good at being truly wise and understanding things better than anyone else.

Question 9

What was the meaning of wisdom for Socrates?

Answer 9

Understanding the true nature of our existence, including the limits of what we can know.

Question 10

Philosophers today are doing more or less what Socrates was doing: …

Answer 10

asking tough questions, looking at reasons and evidence, struggling to answer some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves about the nature of reality and how we should live.

Question 11

Life, he declared, is only worth living if…

Answer 11

you think about what you are doing.

Question 12

Why did Socrates considered that talking is better than writing?

Answer 12

Because written words can’t explain you anything when you don’t understand them.

Question 13

Why was Plato considered the Shakespeare of his day?

Answer 13

Because he wrote down a series of conversations between Socrates and the People he questioned, the Platonic Dialogues.

Question 14

One of the ideas that most people believe is Plato’s rather than Socrates’ is…

Answer 14

that the world is not at all what it seems. There is a significant difference between appearance and reality.

Question 15

Plato believed that…

Answer 15

only philosophers understand what the world is truly like.

Question 16

In Plato’s Cave Analogy, that describes an imaginary scenario of three men chained on a cave while seeing flickering shadows in front of them that they blindly believe to be real things, what does the man who first breaks free and sees beyond the appearances how reality really is represents?

Answer 16

A Philosopher

Question 17

What does Plato’s Theory of Forms consist on?

Answer 17

That anything we grasp through our senses is an imperfect example derived from a Form, an abstract idea.

Question 18

Why Plato believed that the philosophers should be in charge of society and have all political power on their hands?

Answer 18

Because they were good at thinking about reality, so they would always be the best and most reliable leaders that a society could have.

Question 19

Why did Plato condemned art?

Answer 19

Because works of art mimic appearances, that are deceptive about the Forms, giving false representations of reality.

Question 20

Which was the most prominent characteristic of Democracy in Athens?

Answer 20

The citizens were equal before the law, and there was an elaborate lottery system to make sure that everyone had a fair chance of influencing political decisions.

Question 21

Which accusations did Meletus use in the court against Socrates?

Answer 21

That he was neglecting the Athenian Gods, introducing new ones of his own and even suggested that he was teaching young men to misbehave and turn against authorities.

Question 22

How did Socrates respond to the Athenians once they declared his death sentence?

Answer 22

He argued that he did nothing wrong and that they should, in fact, be rewarding him by giving him free meals for life instead of punishing him.

Question 23

Which was the death penalty that Socrates received?

Answer 23

Being forced to drink Hemlock poison.

Question 24

Why did Socrates accept his death sentence?

Answer 24

Because he would rather die than stop thinking about how things really are.

Question 25

What is the meaning of the word “philosophy”?

Answer 25

Love of Wisdom.

Question 26

About 2,400 years ago, in _________, a man was put to death for asking too many questions.

Answer 26

Athens

Question 27

As a young man, he had been a brave soldier fighting in the _____________ Wars

Answer 27

Peloponnesian

Question 28

An example was his conversation with ________________.

Answer 28

Euthydemus

Question 29

The _________ were clever teachers who would coach their students in the art of speech-making.

Answer 29

Sophists

Question 30

The _________ was a wise old woman

Answer 30

Oracle

Question 31

‘Is anyone wiser than _________?’

Answer 31

Socrates

Question 32

The word ‘_____________’ comes from the Greek words meaning ‘love of wisdom’.

Answer 32

Philosopher

Question 33

These are known as __________ and are great works if literature as well as philosophy.

Answer 33

Platonic Dialogues

Question 34

__________ believed that only philosophers understand what the world is truly like.

Answer 34

Plato

Question 35

Painters paint appearances, but appearances are deceptive about the ____________.

Answer 35

Forms