FYP Plato Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Teaches the skill of rhetoric, makes the greater seem lesser and the lesser seem greater, is not concerned with the truth. - ANSWERSWhat is sophism?
- ANSWERS
Agathon - ANSWERSWho house is the setting of the Symposium?
416 BCE, in the mids...
Teaches the skill of rhetoric, makes the greater seem lesser and the lesser seem greater, is not concerned
with the truth. - ANSWERSWhat is sophism?
- ANSWERS
Agathon - ANSWERSWho house is the setting of the Symposium?
416 BCE, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War and one year before the Sicilian expedition. -
ANSWERSWhen is the Symposium set?
4th century BCE - ANSWERSWhen was the Symposium written?
Aristodemus - ANSWERSWho was Socrates' guest at the Symposium?
Pausanias - ANSWERSWho in the Symposium argues that there are two kinds of Aphrodite?
Doesn't show much difference btwn humans and animals in innate sexual desires. Does not take into
account human intellect. Female AND male, heterosexual OR homosexual love. Loves bodies only. The
kind of love inferior people feel. - ANSWERSCommon Aphrodite
An elevated love of the soul, is all male (only male homosexual love). Loves souls before bodies. -
ANSWERSHeavenly Aphrodite
Aristophanes - ANSWERSWho describes eros as the most "human god?"
Aristophanes - ANSWERSWho in the Symposium argued humans began as "globulars?"
, It meant halves could experience a bodily reunion that allowed them to become whole again and gave
them temporary relief which enabled them to pursue other activities → emergence of human goals. -
ANSWERSIn Aristophanes speech in The Symposium, what did the emergence of sex for the globular
beings represent?
Love is the name of the desire and pursuit for wholeness. - ANSWERSAccording to Aristophanes, what is
love?
Eros is a culmination from resource and poverty, this means that love is constituted of opposing
principles. - ANSWERSAccording to Socrates, what is eros?
Because it is the closest mortals can come to being permanently alive and immortal. - ANSWERSWhy is
reproduction the object of love?
The ascent from purely physical attraction to contemplation of the Form of Beauty itself. -
ANSWERSWhat is the Ladder of Love?
The Divided Line represents different degrees of light and darkness. Order the visible to invisible forms of
knowledge. - ANSWERSWhat is the Divided Line?
Imagination - ANSWERSWhat is the lowest form of knowledge in the Divided Line?
The principle of all kinds of knowing. The Sun or THE GOOD is the most complete form of knowledge as it
is the source of all knowledge without actually being a form of knowledge itself. - ANSWERSWhat does
The Good in Plato's Divided Line refer to?
→ The sun is responsible for the visibility and existence of the world
→ The sun is itself an object of vision
→ The good (the sun) is not just responsible for the way the mind can see the truth, but is also
responsible for the existence of those truths AND our minds - ANSWERSWhat does the analogy of the
sun and the good represent?
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