Phaedo
Plato
Review
Seventh Letter
100

Who is narrating this dialogue?

Phaedo

100

What is the name of Plato's ontological theory?

The theory of forms

100

Name the three first pre-socratics we studied

Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes

100

What city in Italy had Plato visited?

Syracuse

200

Who is the hero of the minotaur myth?

Theseus

200

What are the two main divisions in Plato's divided line?

Visible and Intelligible

200

Who said "Into the same river, different and different waters flow"  restated as "You cannot step into the same river twice"?

Heraclitus

200

Which philosophical school that we studied flourished in Italy

Pythagoreanism

300

Who are the two main Pythagorean interlocutors?

Simmias and Cebes

300

What are the two subdivision in the lower section of the divided line?

images and things

300

Who said "What is, is one."?

Parmenides

300

What is the name of the Tyrant Plato tried to convert to Philosophy?

Dionysius II

400

What theory from the Meno makes a reappearance in the Phaedo?

Theory of Recollection

400

What are the two subdivision in the upper section of the divided line?

mathematical truths and forms

400

What did most Sophists claim to teach?

virtue

400

Why is a name not a good account of the thing itself?

Names are conventional and arbitrary, the thing itself is essential and unchanging

500

What is the definition of death in this dialogue?

The separation of soul from body.

500

Explain Plato's theory of forms

Some version of: 

-particular things are imperfect instantiations of the forms, which are ideal, eternal, unchanging and the causes of particular things

500

Which dialogue contains Plato's allegory of the cave?

Republic

500

What are the 4 things used (with language) to try to understand or describe the thing itself?

name, account, definition, knowledge