Socrates Flashcards
(34 cards)
Who was Socrates?
A Greek philosopher considered to be the founder of western philosophy who’s life and teachings have been conserved by his student (Plato).
What was Socrates nicknamed?
The Gadfly because he gives you a sting
What did Socrates do?
Socrates was a teacher who went around ancient Athens and engage with conversations with people.
What were Socrates conversations about?
Socrates would keep questioning people forcing them to justify their belief until they gave the “correct” definition.
Socratic dialogue
The Socratic method is a form of teaching that uses a series of questions to lead a person to a conclusion or to uncover contradictions in their own beliefs.
Knowledge
Facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education. However, knowledge is beliefs in your brain but that can cause contradictions.
Contradiction
Contradictions are statements that are opposed from each other.
Ad hominem(bad)
When someone attacks the arguer rather than the view the arguer is giving
Straw man(bad)
An unfair description of the arguers point
Leading question(bad)
Asking the question you already know the answer to
Conclusions(Good)
When someone completes there argument
Analogies(Good)
When someone compares something to something else
Example(Good)
When someone gives an concrete example to support there point
Two reasons in favour of Socrates escaping from prison
If Socrates lives , he will be able to continue to challenge people about what they know
If Socrates dies, his legacy could disappear – people will go back blindly accepting ‘truth’
Martyrs
People who get killed because of their belief.
Two reasons against Socrates escaping prison
Socrates always looked to reason and use his own logic in decision-making, rather than looking what the god said.
Socrates ‘stung’ people into thinking about issues and concepts rather than blindly accepting them.
What is Cephalus description on justice?
To pay your debts and tell the truth
What is Thrasymachus description on justice?
Whatever is in interest of those who have power
What is Socrates description on justice?
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Define philosolophy
Philosophy literally means “Love of wisdom”. Philosophers use only their reasoning skills and evidence in the world to help ask and answer questions.
Define Theology
Theology means “the study of god”. Theologians use evidence and the “clues” that God has put in the world and within us to help ask and answer questions.
Plato
Is Socrates’s student, mathematician, writer of phi logical dialogue
Which questions will you never answer
The future questions
Belief
An acceptance that something exists or is true without proof
