TP EOY Flashcards
Socrates
Greek philosopher. Founder Of western philosophy. Teachings preserved by his contemporaries e.g. Plato.
Socratic Dialogue
Asking questions. Forcing people for reasons. Analyse key terms. Find the correct definition to find the truth.
1. Think of a question starting with what is.
2. They give a definition that comes straight to their mind with using common sense.
3. Socrates destroys their definition with a counter example.
4. They agree with Socrates in a grovelling manner then someone else steps in.
5. Then the process begins again.
6. He asks leading and distracting questions to which the listener agrees which gives Socrates the reply he wants.
Knowledge
Perception, true judgement and true judgement with an account. Socrates believes that knowledge is more useful than true beliefs because knowledge is justified true beliefs which means that there is evidence to show that something is true. However a true belief is not a justified belief.
Ad hominem
It is when the person attacks the arguer instead of talking about the argument e.g. How can you trust what he says, he is a politician and all politicians are liars. You have no idea what you are talking about, you have only lived here for six months.
Strawman
An affair description of the opponent’s view. e.g. You want to sell all our cars and make us sits around in the dark us hugging each other to stay warm.
You will bankrupt the entire country if you fund more public schools.
Leading question.
When someone asks a question which is they know the the answer or the question being sought e.g. You have done your homework haven’t you
Conclusion
When someone completes their argument
Indicator word: so and therefore. “ In football many matches end up 0-0 which means that football is not an exiting sport.
Analogy
Someone gets a point but gets other information to support their point e.g. You have to be as busy as a bee to get high marks in school.
Examples
When someone uses a concrete example to support their point e.g. just because boxing causes injury we should not ban it. Motor racing causes injury but we don’t ban that.
Why Socrates should escape?
People will blame his friends because they will consider them as bad people for not helping him escape and not raise money for a friend in need.
Socrates will leave his wife a widow and he has a job of staying alive and look after the children who will become orphans if he dies.
Why Socrates should not escape?
He will be disrespectful to the law.
Also he will spend his whole life in fear and hiding which will be damaging to his soul and character.
Glaucon
Ancient Athenian
Plato’s older brother
Student of Socrates
He discussed the nature of Justice and the ideal state.
He also presented the allegory of the cave which is when he makes contrasts appearance and reality.
Crito
Was a student of Socrates well connected young Athenian. He aims to convinces Socrates to make use of his resources and escape from the Athenian Prison and settle somewhere else.
Sophists
Socrates argued with the people who wanted to win the argument and didn’t want to know what was true.
Justice
Socrates attacks these points of Thrasymachus and explains Justice. It means men are more effective in action who are superior in character and intelligence while injustice means lack of character and intelligence.
Philosophy
Ideas about knowledge truth nature and meaning of life.
Theology
The study of religious faith practice and experience: Study of god and god’s relation to the world.
3 key events of Jesus’s life
birth, crucifixion, and resurrection.
Concept Of the Messiah
Jesus is the Messiah. His teachings were fulfilled through his birth, crucifixion and resurrection and that he will return and fulfil his prophecies.
Jesus’s arrival
Jesus was born in 4 BCE and died in 30 CE in Jerusalem on the roman Cross. A man called Caesar Augustus had allowed Herod the great to rule Jerusalem and he died soon after Jesus was born. Jesus’s whole life was spent with the romans in charge of Jerusalem. As he grew up his life had been spent by the Tiberias had become the emperor of Rome. He put a man called Pontius Pilate in charge of Judea which was the southern part of Palestine. He was a cruel leader and was continuously upsetting the Jews. He was the man who sent Jesus to death.
Views
Rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Bring about a new Messianic age in which all people will live in peace
Bring a true awareness of God and signal the end of the world.
Historical Sources
Give us an in-depth understanding of things that have happened in the past from the point of view through the people who lived through them.
Bias
The tendency to believe that some people’s ideas are better then others usually results in treating some people unfairly.
Context
Context are the things that are happening in a certain event
Reliability
How reliable something is
Difference between historical and religious truths.
Historical truths are told by the people of that time however religious truths are based on a certain religion.
How might the gospels be not reliable
- Work of unknown Christians
- Gospels don not contain eyewitness accounts
- They present their theologies of their community rather then the testimony of eyewitness.
SIMILAR TIME TEACHING STYLE
POOL OF BATHESDA
POOL SILOAM
What is Q?
Q is a German word quel which is a written collection of Jesus’s sayings. It is only found in the gospel of Mathew and Luke, not in the mark.
Birth of Jesus
Mathew says angel appeared to Joseph in a dream.
Luke says angel Gabriel visits Marry in person.
Baptism
It is a Christian belief where you sprinkle water on their fore head and amercing the head of the child in the water. The aim of baptism is that to remove evil out of the child, to obey the command of Christ and publicly announce the faith of Christ. Mathew, mark, Luke all talk about Baptism. John talks about the descent of spirit when Jesus got baptised but it does not talk about baptism it self.
Relationship
Salomne and Marry were sisters which made Jesus and john cousins
Sermon On the Mount
- You are the salt of the land. The word salt is used as a symbol of god’s lasting covenant with Israel.
- The light of the world means that he is referring to god’s image of light on a hill which cannot be hidden.
- You are the blessed ones that will spread god’s kingdom across the world.
Love compassion and selflessness.
Key teachings linked to the old testament law
Jesus does says no part of it should pass away until it is fulfilled. He has come to fulfil it and live under the laws of Christ and not Moses
teachings
Because the a lot of time has gone since he came and also the type of culture we live in now a days
Parable
A memorable short story that has a subversive meaning that uses imagery and symbols to show a new way of life.
- He would have used it because he would only want his disciples to hear what he is saying to them and the other people will only be able to understand if they repent.
PARABLE of the lost son
wait for humans to realise their wrong doings
ask for forgiveness
welcomes them back when they own up their mistakes.
PARABLE OF WEDDING BANQUET
Kingdom of god is opened to everyone not just the jews.
Those people who murdered the servants could be the murder of the prophets and jews rejecting Jesus.
Kingdom of god
This was a holy name and that it has been mentioned in the first three gospels and this is considered to be the central of Jesus’s teachings.
When was Socrates Born
470 BC until 399 BC
