Terms 1
Philosophy means "love of __________"
wisdom
Philosopher who came up with the "question and answer" method of philosophy.
Socrates
Wrote The Republic
Plato
The only thing the prisoners can see on the wall of the cave
shadows
A story with a symbolic meaning
allegory
congratulate
Aristotle tutored this military commander
Alexander the Great
The name of the university Plato founded is the _____________ of Athens
The two types of people in the Allegory of the Cave
the enlightened and the unenlightened
Socrates was forced to drink this type of poison
hemlock
mischievous person
rogue
professional teachers in Athens whom Socrates often disagreed with were called...
sophists
Philosopher who founded the Lyceum (university)
Aristotle
The virtue of which Socrates says has a "divine element"
wisdom
Plato's "___________ of __________" is the concept of a world of eternal, perfect, and unchangeable ideas
Theory of Forms
Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy make up the _____________.
quadrivium
Philosopher who worked as a stonemason
Socrates
Philosopher who believed in observable, tangible (physical) facts
Aristotle
What is the "guardian of all that is in the visible world"?
the sun
beatific
reasoning, argumentation, logic
dialectic
The interlocuter (other person in the dialogue) who speaks with Socrates in "The Allegory of the Cave"
Glaucon
Painted The Death of Socrates (first or last name will suffice)
Jacques-Louis David
knowledge that is already with us when we are born
knowledge learned through experience
a posteriori