Pre-Socratics I
Name the three first pre-socratics we studied.
Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes
What are some distinctive beliefs of the Pythagoreans?
Transmigration of soul, kosmos as numerical, harmony of kosmos, harmonia of soul with kosmos
What is the topic of the Euthyphro?
Piety
What is the subtitle of the Republic?
On Justice
What is Xenophanes famous for critiquing?
The Olympian gods
Describe one of Zeno's paradoxes
Stadium, Achilles and the Tortoise, Arrow
What is the topic of the Crito?
Law and Obligation, or Injustice and the Law
Describe the allegory of the cave
various possibilities
Who said that what is is one?
Parmenides
What are some distinctive features of Anaxagoras' account?
There is a bit of everything in everything, no smallest parts, Mind directs all things
What was Socrates charged with according to the Apology?
Corrupting the youth, not believing in the city's gods, introducing new gods
Describe the divisions of Plato's divided line
Main divisions: visible and intelligible
Sub-divisions: Visible: image and object, Intelligible: mathematical object and Form itself
What is the Parmenidean Challenge?
To explain the natural world in light of his analysis of Being (cannot come to be or pass away ...)
What are the fundamental forces and elements in Empedocles' account of the kosmos?
Earth, Air, Water, Fire, in a cycle maintained by Love and Strife
What is the topic of the Meno?
Virtue
Name on of the metaphors for knowledge in the Theaetetus
Wax tablet or aviary
Democritus and Leucippus were members of what Philosophical school?
Atomism
How can the pluralists (Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Atomists) be seen as responding to the Parmenidean challenge?
They all try to provide a foundation for being that meets Parmenides' criteria for Being, while also explaining how natural processes are possible
Why is an example not a good definition?
It may not indicate what is essential about the concept being defined, what all examples have in common
According to the seventh letter, why would Plato never write down the sincere account of his Philosophical theory?
It is too easy for readers to misunderstand, or refute the language and words rather than the living meaning of his thought. Also, the words cannot answer questions of elaboration, the process of working together to understand is not possible via fixed writing