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Study Guide for the Second Quiz (PHL 230 0H1)

 

The quiz will be given at the beginning of class on September 29th, at 11:00. You will have between 15-20 minutes to complete the quiz. In general, all quizzes will be composed of a series of short answer questions from which you must choose 5 to answer.

 

This quiz will cover the philosophical views of Plato/Socrates.

 

  1. General Knowledge of Socrates:
    1. The Socratic Project –i.e. what Socrates was trying to do, generally speaking, and against whom he was reacting.
    2. The Socratic Method –that is, the process of the Socratic elenchus. This is best displayed in the Euthyphro, Book I of the Republic (conversation with Thrasymachus) and poorly (why poorly?) in the brief interchange with Meletus in the Apology.
    3. The Socratic (Platonic) conception of “definition.”
    4. The Socratic (Platonic) conception of the purpose of philosophy and philosophical inquiry.
  2. General Knowledge of Plato:
    1. The “Theory” of Forms. What they are, what role they serve in Plato’s philosophical vision, how Plato argues for their existence, their relation to “material things”, the criticisms of the “theory”.
    2. The basic theory of recollection –in its relation to the Forms.
    3. The basic theory of the relation of the soul to the body and how and why the soul is immortal.
    4. The basic assumptions concerning knowledge/reality that Plato holds (takes over from Parmenides to some extent).
  3. Dialogues: Apology
    1. The charges against Socrates.
    2. The general pattern of his defense.
    3. The conception of philosophy that Socrates articulates throughout the dialogue –its role in social life, its role in an individuals life.
  4. Dialogues: Phaedo
    1. The basic theme of the Phaedo –what is at issue.
    2. The definition of philosophy and its role in human life given in here.
    3. The various arguments for the immortality of the soul presented here.
    4. The role of the Forms in these arguments –and the relation of the Forms to human knowledge, experience and life presented here (think of the equality example).
  5. Dialogues: Republic V & VI and Symposium
    1. The ascent of knowledge to the Forms in each of these dialogues.
    2. The relations between the various levels –i.e. how and why one level is higher than the other
    3. The driving force for moving up the levels of the various “ladders” to the Forms.
    4. The conception and general placement of the Good and Beauty in these respective ascents.
  6. Dialogues: Parmenides
    1. The arguments against the forms presented here.