Meno
Republic
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What is Meno's first definition of virtue?

The virtue of a man, woman, child etc

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What is Cephalus' definition of Justice?

To speak truth and repay debts

100

What did Euthyphro claim to be an expert in?

Piety

200

What is Meno's second definition of virtue?

To rule over people

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What is Polemarchus' definition of Justice?

To help friends and harm enemies

200

What Greek word did Heraclitus use to describe the way of nature?

logos

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What is Meno's third definition of virtue?

to find joy in beautiful things and have the power to secure them

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What is Thrasymachus' definition of justice?

The advantage of the stronger.

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What did Crito try to persuade Socrates to do in the dialogue Crito?

To flee the city and escape execution

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What is the paradox of inquiry?

We cannot search for what we know, because we know it, and we cannot search for what we do not know, because we would not know what to search for

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What are the two major realms of the divided line?

Visible and Intelligible

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What was Socrates charged with?

Corrupting the youth, not believing in the city's gods, and introducing new gods

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What is the theory of recollection?

That learning is really remembering those things the soul knew before becoming incarnated

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What is the allegory of the cave supposed to illustrate?

Various possibilities, some version of: it is a model of our reality in which we mistake the changeable shadows of objects for the truth of those objects, our journey to exit the cave is an ascension up the divided line 

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What did the historical Socrates write?

nothing

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