Oedipus Rex
Oedipus found himself in this familial anomaly.
What is "married to his mother, murderer of his father?"
True or false: In the end of Book VII of Republic, Socrates provides a well-reasoned definition of justice
What is "false?"
True or False: When considering questions like the nature of justice, Aristotle says we should expect to come to a complete, certain conclusion.
What is "false"
Recite John 1:1
What is "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God?"
In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle states that that this is the best, noblest and most pleasant thing in the world.
What is happiness?
Oedipus inflicts this on himself after Jocasta hangs herself.
What is "gouging out his eyes?"
Socrates' shortcoming in his conversation about justice.
What is "asking good questions?"
The two types of ends that Aristotle discusses.
What are "subordinate ends and final (ultimate) ends?"
Recite John 1:2
What is "He was with God in the beginning?"
Oedipus is king of where?
What is Thebes?
Oedipus' mother/wife
Who is Jocasta?
True or False: Adeimantus claims that justice is a sort of social construct, taught rather than intrinsic.
What is "true?"
The quality that the ultimate good must have.
What is "complete in itself; dependent on nothing else?"
Recite John 1:3
What is "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made?"
What Aristotle suggests makes humans distinct.
What is "the ability to reason?"
The character who said "even when you had control, you did not have control, but only
supposed so."
Who is Creon?
The story describing an object that gave its wearer invisibility which attempted to prove that no man given the opportunity for injustice would choose justice.
What is the Ring of Gyges?
The three kinds of lives that people call happy or good.
What are "the life of pleasure, the political life, the life of contemplation?"
Recite John 1:14
What is "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth?"
The paradox between Oedipus and the blind prophet.
What is "though blind, the prophet could see difficult truths that Oedipus, with his sight intact could not."
The name of the blind prophet
Who is "Tiresias?"
In the story of the cave in Book VII, describe the reaction of those still stuck in the cave when the man who discovered that the shadows were not the real thing came back to them.
What is "attacking and not believing him?"
The problem with considering the political life to be the good life.
What is "that it is dependent on honor received from others, or that it is not an end in itself?"
Recite John 1:1-3, 14
What is "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
A key question about the nature of justice in Plato's Republic.
What is "is justice valuable in itself, or only for what it achieves?"