Phaedo
Who is narrating this dialogue?
Phaedo
What is the name of Plato's ontological theory?
The theory of forms
Name the three first pre-socratics we studied
Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
What city in Italy had Plato visited?
Syracuse
Who is the hero of the minotaur myth?
Theseus
What are the two main divisions in Plato's divided line?
Visible and Intelligible
Who said "Into the same river, different and different waters flow" restated as "You cannot step into the same river twice"?
Heraclitus
Which philosophical school that we studied flourished in Italy
Pythagoreanism
Who are the two main Pythagorean interlocutors?
Simmias and Cebes
What are the two subdivision in the lower section of the divided line?
images and things
Who said "What is, is one."?
Parmenides
What is the name of the Tyrant Plato tried to convert to Philosophy?
Dionysius II
What theory from the Meno makes a reappearance in the Phaedo?
Theory of Recollection
What are the two subdivision in the upper section of the divided line?
mathematical truths and forms
What did most Sophists claim to teach?
virtue
Why is a name not a good account of the thing itself?
Names are conventional and arbitrary, the thing itself is essential and unchanging
What is the definition of death in this dialogue?
The separation of soul from body.
Explain Plato's theory of forms
-particular things are imperfect instantiations of the forms, which are ideal, eternal, unchanging and the causes of particular things
Which dialogue contains Plato's allegory of the cave?
Republic
What are the 4 things used (with language) to try to understand or describe the thing itself?
name, account, definition, knowledge