Meno
What is Meno's first definition of virtue?
The virtue of a man, woman, child etc
What is Cephalus' definition of Justice?
To speak truth and repay debts
What did Euthyphro claim to be an expert in?
Piety
What is Meno's second definition of virtue?
To rule over people
What is Polemarchus' definition of Justice?
To help friends and harm enemies
What Greek word did Heraclitus use to describe the way of nature?
logos
What is Meno's third definition of virtue?
to find joy in beautiful things and have the power to secure them
What is Thrasymachus' definition of justice?
The advantage of the stronger.
What did Crito try to persuade Socrates to do in the dialogue Crito?
To flee the city and escape execution
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
What are the two major realms of the divided line?
Visible and Intelligible
What was Socrates charged with?
Corrupting the youth, not believing in the city's gods, and introducing new gods
What is the theory of recollection?
That learning is really remembering those things the soul knew before becoming incarnated
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
What did the historical Socrates write?
nothing