test 1

Question 1

what is philosophy etymology speaking?

Answer 1

the love of wisdom

Question 2

role of philosophy in life

Answer 2

every time one wonders they are faced with a fact and are looking for a reason or cause

Question 3

difference between fact and reasoned fact

Answer 3

a fact is that something is, reasoned fact is why something is

Question 4

what is wisdom

Answer 4

knowledge of things through their highest cause

Question 5

what action does philosophy begin with

Answer 5

wondering, when you are faced with a fact and don’t know the answer

Question 6

what does “all men desire to know” mean

Answer 6

men do not start with knowledge and they want to figure out and learn the causes of things

Question 7

three obstacles that stop the desire to know

Answer 7

knowledge goes against other desires/appetites, presumption- you think you know when you don’t, despair- you don’t think you’ll ever find out the answer

Question 8

what is absolute relativism

Answer 8

truth is relative, there is no truth

Question 9

arguments against absolute relativism

Answer 9

practical: there would be no point in doing anything/learning
logical: by saying there is no truth is contradictory

Question 10

four divisions of philosophy

Answer 10

Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary post modern

Question 11

three branches of ancient philosophy

Answer 11

pre-socratic, Socrates Plato and Aristotle, and Post Aristotelian

Question 12

Key figure with Medieval philosophy

Answer 12

Thomas Aquinas

Question 13

key figure with modern philosophy

Answer 13

Descartes and Emmanuel Kant

Question 14

Death and birth of Socrates

Answer 14

469-399 BC

Question 15

what is the purpose of speech and the two sets of accomplished speakers?

Answer 15

the purpose of speaking is to tell the truth, but the two types of speakers are those who tell the truth or those who speak persuasively

Question 16

Two sets of accusers?

Answer 16

The old accusers and the recent accusers

Question 17

what set of accusers are more dangerous?

Answer 17

old accusers because they have been around for a long time, they are nameless and innumerable, the accusations were made when the jury would believe them and there was never a defense

Question 18

what is socrates being accused of

Answer 18

he makes the worse argument the stronger (something that is not good or true he persuades people to believe) and he does not believe in the gods

Question 19

Why is socrates wise and why is he unwise

Answer 19

socrates is wise because he knows that he doesn’t know, he is unwise because he does not have human wisdom (the ability to make stuff)

Question 20

Counterargument against corrupting the youth

Answer 20

its impossible to say that everyone improves the youth except for socrates, and he does not do it deliberately

Question 21

counterargument against being an atheist

Answer 21

he believes in divine actions

Question 22

greatest evil to happen to men

Answer 22

doing injustice

Question 23

greatest good to happen to men

Answer 23

having excellence of soul and discussing virtue and wondering

Question 24

why doesn’t socrates fear death

Answer 24

death is either a pleasant sleep or death is change and he will be in good company, a good man cannot be harmed in death

Question 25

what does the "unexamined life is one not worth living" mean?

Answer 25

there is thought behind your ideas and you wonder and question your decisions before making them, without examining your life you act off of customs and religion, need to know when we don't know

Question 26

why do people begin to hate arguments / discussion and what is the solution

Answer 26

people hate arguments when they become attached to them and find out they are false, solution is to still consider arguments but understand that they are not dependable

Question 27

why does socrates say that everyone desires good things

Answer 27

no one desires bad things, we don't know what good things are yet but no one performs any action without feeling that they will get something good out of it

Question 28

theory of recollection

Answer 28

when people search for something they don't know, all men know everything and forget when they are born, when man is taught the soul is just remembering

Question 29

why is virtue knowledge

Answer 29

virtue is good and beneficial, wealth honors strength beauty are sometimes beneficial and sometimes not, wisdom/knowledge makes everything good or beneficial

Question 30

is virtue teachable

Answer 30

no because if it was there would be teachers of it

Question 31

difference between knowledge and opinion

Answer 31

knowledge is always there for you, opinion is only sometimes with you, knowledge can give you an account of the reason why

Question 32

why does socrates find Euthyphro outside the Athenian courts and why is her there

Answer 32

Socrates is there because he is being persecuted by Meletus, Euthyphro is there because he is prosecuting his father

Question 33

How not to define

Answer 33

giving an example (too narrow), contradictory, giving the class of things not the specific difference, giving an effect or quality (does not get at form)

Question 34

how to define

Answer 34

proximity genus and specific difference, start with a larger class and clarify & describe further

Question 35

how do we gain virtue

Answer 35

teaching, practice, nature or some other way (divine inspiration or some combination)