Elenchus - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Socratic Method (Elenchus) correct answers - a conversational (dialogical) method of doing philosophy that attempts to answer a question (i.e. what is courage?) by Socrates challenging the beliefs of his conversational partners through rigorous questioning - does not establish an answer to the question under discussion but merely shows why a proposed view cannot be true "Elenchus" correct answers literally means "putting to the test" or "refutation" "The Apology" correct answers d...

Hobbes' Seven Assumptions about the State of Nature 1. People are similar in mental and physical ability 2. Humans don't want to die 3. Humans only have local affections 4. Humans are curious and anxious 5. Moral judgments made based on personal whim 6. Practical Rationality 7. Right of Nature Why do we have ethics? To establish right from wrong or describe behavior Socrates 1. Shifts the focus of philosophy from Cosmology to human excellence (Arête) 2. Conception of t...

Elenchus correct answers the Socratic method, refutation, putting to the test Aporia correct answers a state of perplexity (confusion); the usual result of the Socratic method Kallipolis correct answers the beautiful (noble) city; In the Republic Plato's ideal "city of the mind" Kalon correct answers beauty, fine, noble Polis correct answers city, city-state Psuche (Psyche) correct answers the soul; the mind Andreas correct answers Courage; literally "manliness" Eidos c...

Weakness of will (akrasia) correct answers knowing what to do and failing to act on it - "knowing the better and doing the worse" Socrates View on virtue correct answers - a form of knowledge of good and evil, thus, each specific virtue are really the same (unity of virtues) - the view makes weakness of will impossible - but humans act contrary to knowledge Socratic Method (Elenchus) correct answers A conversational (dialogical) method of doing philosophy that challenges beliefs of his...

HUM EXAM top Questions and answers, 100% Accurate, rated A Genre of The Instructions of Amenemope - didactic (intended to teach) How does Utanapishtim test Gilgamesh? - stay awake What form does an answer in Ifa divination take? - a poem Highest good for Epicureans - pleasure first noble truth of buddhism - all is dukkha what does Krishna tell Arjuna that he must do? - fight! where were the Jews taken in exile? - Babylon who destroyed the 2nd temple in Jerusalem? - Ro...

Ancient Greek Quiz 3 Study Questions and answers • What are the archai, for the atomists? (Hint: there are 2) - Atoms and void • What are the three ways in which being can differ, according to the atomists? What are these differences supposed to explain? - Things appear different to us than animals (one person doesn't make same judgements as another concerning senses). What is true and false is unclear (either nothing is true, or it is unclear to us). Senses (nothing that appears is ...

Class notes over Plato's book "The Republic". Topics covered in the notes: what is philosophy, background on Socrates, Plato, and history up intil this point, important Greek philosophical vocab, key point analysis on the weekly readings of the book, etc.