Liberal Arts I
Liberal Arts II
Aristotle; Rosenberg;
Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Plato I
Plato II
200
A fire is an example of a natural sign. (True/False)
True!
200
The Liberal Arts are broken down into this group of three (concerned with language) and this group of four (concerned with quantity)
What is the Trivium and the Quadrivium?
200
Nietzsche thinks the truth is the most important thing in life, and that everything we do should be for the sake of it. (True/False)
Nietzsche thinks life is more important than truth.
200
According to Diotima, we call things beautiful and good because they are like us.
True/False
200
According to Aristophanes,
We love things and call them good because they are like ourselves?
400
The liberal arts are this kind of good?
What is valuable/intrinsic?
400
What are the two different kinds of sign? What’s the difference?
Natural: Meaning fixed by the world/not by agreement
Arbitrary: Meaning fixed by convention
400
For Aristotle, all men by nature desire what?
To know!
400
Why can’t love be a god according to Socrates and Diotima?
Love is a desire.
Desire is a need.
Needs are not-havings.
Therefore, a love of goodness and beauty would be a not-having of goodness and beauty (happiness), which is impossible for the gods.
400
Whom does Alcibiades crown at the end of the Symposium?
Socrates and Agathon!
600
What are the 3 kinds of good? Give examples.
Pleasant
Utilitarian
Valuable/Intrinsic
600
What can you do with signs that Nim Cimsky cannot do? Hint: starts with the letter S!
Use syntax!
600
According to Rosenberg, your life matters and has a purpose!
600
What can we say about Eryximachus and Agathon from their behavior at the beginning of the dialogue?
Eryximachus is a bit of fuddy-duddy because he wants to get rid of all the music and drinking.
Agathon is manipulative from the way he treats his servants and Aristodemus.
600
What is Phaedrus’s definition of love?
Love is a great god who inspires us to overcome death through great actions.
800
Analyze the following sentences with respect to the unity employed.
Mr. Stark is a human being.
Human beings are animals.
That guy over there is Mr. Stark.
This class is FYE 201.
Species
Genus
Individual
Aggregate
800
What are the 10 Categories? Can you give an example of each?
Substance
Quantity
Quality
Relation
Action
Passion
Time
Place
Position
Habit
800
Relate Aristotle, Rosenberg, and Nietzsche’s views to the following concepts:
Misosophy-Hatred of Wisdom
Philosophy-Love of Wisdom
Philothumia-Love of Life/Power
Aristotle: Philosophy
Rosenberg: MisosophyNietzsche: Love of Life/Power
800
What order to the speakers actually speak in? I.e. forget hiccups. (Pausanias is optional)
Phaedrus
Pausanias (Optional)
Eryximachus
Aristophanes
Agathon
Socrates/Diotima
Alcibiades
800
What is the relationship between art and love for Eryximachus? What are some arts that deal with love?
Art (and especially medicine) controls love by making things agree with one another for the benefit of human beings.
Agriculture, Music, and Divination all manipulate love by making like things come together and by repulsing their opposites.
1000
What are the 4 kinds of unity referred to/signified by language? 2 Abstract and 2 Concrete.
Concrete Unities
-Individual and Aggregate
Abstract Unities
-Species and Genus
1000
List all seven liberal arts.
Grammar
Logic
Rhetoric
Arithmetic
Geometry
Music
Astronomy
1000
List the 6 marks of the wise man according to Aristotle
He knows:
All things
Difficult things
Exact things
Teachable things
Choice-worthy things
Authoritative things.
1000
Describe Aristophanes’s account of Love. What is it? Where did it come from?
Story of the circle people
3 genera of men
Attack gods and get split in half
Die out, then Zeus fixes their organs to procreate
Love is a desire to be with what is like ourselves to be whole and regain our original power.
1000
What is love according to Socrates and Diotima? What does it want and why? What’s love’s relation to poetry?
Love is a desire to have beautiful and good things forever in order to be permanently happy. Poetry or making is one’s way of living on after death in the medium of some beautiful thing.