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Why is Euthyphro at the court? correct answers To charge his father with the murder of a servant. The most famous part of the Euthyphro dialogue involves Socrates' reply to the suggestion that piety is what is loved by ALL the gods. How does Socrates reply? correct answers Socrates suggests that...

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Why is Euthyphro at the court? correct answers To charge his father with the murder of a
servant.

The most famous part of the Euthyphro dialogue involves Socrates' reply to the suggestion that
piety is what is loved by ALL the gods. How does Socrates reply? correct answers Socrates
suggests that things are loved by the gods because they are pious, they're not pious just because
they are loved by the gods.

Plato's Euthyphro is a dialogue between Socrates and a young priest named Euthyphro that
supposedly takes place at the court in which Socrates is soon to be tried. Which of the following
is among the charges that have been brought against Socrates? correct answers Corruption of the
youth.

He is also charged with denying the gods, and inventing new ones.

How does Socrates object to Euthyphro's suggestion that piety is acting like he is, prosecuting
the wrong? correct answers Socrates says that this is merely an example of piety, but what he
wants is a definition that identifies the general idea that distinguishes piety from impiety.

Socrates wants a definition, not an example.

Most of the dialogue involves an attempt to define piety. Which of the following is NOT among
the definitions that Euthyphro offers? correct answers Acting in accord with the best interests of
the community.

After questioning politicians, poets and craftsmen, Socrates determines that he is in fact the
wisest of men. What leads him to believe this? correct answers He discovers that unlike others he
at least knows that he does not know anything.

Socrates gives us a couple bits of biographical information scattered throughout the Apology.
Which of the following is NOT among them? correct answers Socrates has traveled widely
through Greece and Egypt.

Truths
- Socrates is over 70 years old.
- Socrates has three sons.
- Socrates is not financially wealthy.

Complete this famous line: The unexamined life is... correct answers not worth living.

Having been found guilty, his accusers recommend the death penalty. Which of the following is
the punishment initially suggested by Socrates? correct answers Maintenance in the Prytaneum.

, According to the story that Socrates tells, who initially asserts that "No one is wiser than
Socrates." correct answers The Oracle at Delphi

Why does Socrates claim that philosophers actually desire death? correct answers They long for
the purity of knowledge that separation from the body will allow.

Since it's the soul that thinks and understands, while the body merely gets in the way, and since
death is the separation of soul and body, philosophers welcome death.

Which of the following is NOT a reasonable idea to attribute to Plato as part of the meaning of
the Allegory of the Cave? correct answers When one discovers the truth it's best to keep it to
oneself and enjoy life in the sun.

Which of the following claims does Socrates NOT make in explaining the Allegory of the Cave?
correct answers Even after a long time in the light prisoners will always yearn to return to the
habits and customs they grew up with in the cave.

What are Socrates' last words? correct answers A request to Crito to sacrifice a chicken.

How does Socrates define death in the Phaedo? correct answers The separation of the soul from
the body.

Aristotle rejected Plato's doctrine of the forms, the belief that what is ultimately real is a realm of
pure essences that is beyond our experience. Which of the following is not one of the reasons
mentioned in section 4 of the reading. correct answers Forms don't have a physical manifestation
and so they cannot "exist." (To exist is to exert a force, and as non-material entities that never
change, forms cannot possibly exert a force on anything.)

Truths
- Forms are powerless to explain the changes of things that we experience.
- Forms don't explain how we can have knowledge of particular objects.
- Forms don't explain how particular objects can come into existence.

Which of the following is not a true statement based on the reading? correct answers Aristotle
asserts that art and music are the most important occupations for humans because the purpose of
humanity is to bring new forms into existence.

Truths
- Aristotle addresses the paradoxes of Zeno by asserting that space and time are only potentially
divisible to infinity; they are not actually divisible to infinity.
- Aristotle believes that body and soul are connected in a way like wax and an impression
stamped upon it.
- Aristotle believes that God is the original source of all movement, but is himself unmoved by
anything else, existing as pure, eternal contemplation.

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