The Man Who Asked Questions

Question 1

Which man was sentenced to death for asking to many questions?

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

What kind of state did Plato imagine about

Answer 2

Totalitarian state.

Question 3

Who did Plato believe should have political power

Answer 3

Philosophers

Question 4

Why was Socrates considered dumb/stupid?

Answer 4

Because he didn’t know anything.

Question 5

What does the word philosopher come from?

Answer 5

It come from the meaning of love of wisdom.

Question 6

What are Platonic Dialogues?

Answer 6

Genre of literacy developed in Greece in Century B.C.

Question 7

How did Plato describe his imaginary cave?

Answer 7

A cave filled with chained people facing the walls.

Question 8

What are the names of the nations that ended up becoming protestant?

Answer 8

Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Scotland, and The Netherlands.

Question 9

Which group did the English Protestants chase after?

Answer 9

Spanish Treasure

Question 10

Why did Spain lose almost half of it’s silver?

Answer 10

When several hundred French Protestants built a fort in Florida, Spain wiped out the colony and established St. Augustine, Florida.

Question 11

Why did Reformers flocked to Geneva?

Answer 11

Because they wanted to see how holy the commonwealth might work.

Question 12

What year did Christopher Columbus write his last will?

Answer 12

1505

Question 13

What did Meletus take Socrates to court for?

Answer 13

he was neglecting the Athenian gods

Question 14

Why did Socrates warn a person that they cannot touch a person’s stuff?

Answer 14

Because if you touched another persons stuff, then you would “ self harm yourself”.

Question 15

Why did Chaerophone didn’t believe Socrates?

Answer 15

He was really puzzled because, he thought “ how can he be the wisest man in Athens and I know so little”.

Question 16

Where does the word Philosopher come from?

Answer 16

Love and wisdom.

Question 17

Why did Socrates refuse to write?

Answer 17

He made Plato write for him becuase, he said that we have much of the same ideas of what this great man believed and argued about.

Question 18

Hows nickname was Shakesphere of his day.

Answer 18

Plato

Question 19

What did Plato and Socrates believe?

Answer 19

There is a significant difference between, appearance and reality.

Question 20

Why do only philosophers understand what the world is truly like?

Answer 20

They discover the nature of reality by thinking rather than relying on their senses.

Question 21

Why did Plato think that a balance that was like with a well balanced mind with the reasonable mind with the reasonable part of keeping the emotions and desires in control.

Answer 21

Because, unfortunately, his model of society was profundly anti democratic and would keep the people under control by a combination of lies and force.

Question 22

What was Plato’s strageties for voting?

Answer 22

He thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship far better to let the people who know what they were doing to take things in charge.