EXAM 2 SADLER UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
What are 2 major divisions of Metaphysics
ANSWER
What is nature of Reality? What are the basic ways of being?
Question 2.
There is __ underlying all individual selves and things that is beyond our 'normal' capacity to
grasp- understand. (Upanishads)
ANSWER
unity
Question 3.
Define 'Virtue"
ANSWER
the means in which good is preached/ that noble part of is praised, admired, and sought after. (there
are six yours might be different)
Question 4.
According to simplicius, in the textbook, thales was the first thinker to break with ____ and offer
a _______
ANSWER
Question 5.
What are four socratic Virtues and what do they mean?
ANSWER
1) courage (doing right in spite of fear)[COWARDLY LION]
2) temperance (responding properly to your world)[TINMAN]
3) wisdom (knowledge applied rightly)[SCARECROW]
4) justice (setting the world right)[THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD]
Question 6.
How did Plato think the four socratic virtues worked?
ANSWER
WISDOM, COURAGE, and TEMPERENCE in proper proportion, with WISDOM IN CHARGE, oriented
towards THE GOOD (the right way of the universe), PRODUCES JUSTICE.
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, Question 7.
What were the goals of the four Socratic Truths?
ANSWER
produce justice
Question 8.
virtues into what two categories?
ANSWER
Moral and Intellectual (more important)
Question 9.
What was plato's(new) major (new) contribution to philosophy
ANSWER
was foundational in establishing the integrated philosophical enterprise. (integrating metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, and maybe aesthetics)
Question 10.
Describe Plato's 5 step process/methodology for education
ANSWER
1) starts with social education
2)Arithmetic (sciences to find views of the world) 3)Dialectic (the ability to argue own views of world)
4)Practice argument and dialect (job)
5) Inquire about the nature of universals (go back to grad-school)
Question 11.
Describe Plato's 5 step process of coming to knowledge discussed in class.
ANSWER
Name, Description, Image (bodily forms), Knowledge of the Object (concepts), The object itself (true
reality)
Question 12.
What according to plato, are the two metaphysical components
ANSWER
FORM (unchanging, known through thinking/reason, singular), MATTER (always changing, known
through sensation,multiple)
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CORRECT ANSWERS
Question 1.
What are 2 major divisions of Metaphysics
ANSWER
What is nature of Reality? What are the basic ways of being?
Question 2.
There is __ underlying all individual selves and things that is beyond our 'normal' capacity to
grasp- understand. (Upanishads)
ANSWER
unity
Question 3.
Define 'Virtue"
ANSWER
the means in which good is preached/ that noble part of is praised, admired, and sought after. (there
are six yours might be different)
Question 4.
According to simplicius, in the textbook, thales was the first thinker to break with ____ and offer
a _______
ANSWER
Question 5.
What are four socratic Virtues and what do they mean?
ANSWER
1) courage (doing right in spite of fear)[COWARDLY LION]
2) temperance (responding properly to your world)[TINMAN]
3) wisdom (knowledge applied rightly)[SCARECROW]
4) justice (setting the world right)[THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD]
Question 6.
How did Plato think the four socratic virtues worked?
ANSWER
WISDOM, COURAGE, and TEMPERENCE in proper proportion, with WISDOM IN CHARGE, oriented
towards THE GOOD (the right way of the universe), PRODUCES JUSTICE.
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, Question 7.
What were the goals of the four Socratic Truths?
ANSWER
produce justice
Question 8.
virtues into what two categories?
ANSWER
Moral and Intellectual (more important)
Question 9.
What was plato's(new) major (new) contribution to philosophy
ANSWER
was foundational in establishing the integrated philosophical enterprise. (integrating metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics, and maybe aesthetics)
Question 10.
Describe Plato's 5 step process/methodology for education
ANSWER
1) starts with social education
2)Arithmetic (sciences to find views of the world) 3)Dialectic (the ability to argue own views of world)
4)Practice argument and dialect (job)
5) Inquire about the nature of universals (go back to grad-school)
Question 11.
Describe Plato's 5 step process of coming to knowledge discussed in class.
ANSWER
Name, Description, Image (bodily forms), Knowledge of the Object (concepts), The object itself (true
reality)
Question 12.
What according to plato, are the two metaphysical components
ANSWER
FORM (unchanging, known through thinking/reason, singular), MATTER (always changing, known
through sensation,multiple)
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