PHIL 101 TEST #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
True or False: The old charge against Socrates was that he was a Sophist. - Answers -
True
What would Socrates do in his afterlife in a heavenly realm? - Answers - Continue the
Examined Way of Life
What did Socrates learn about human wisdom according to the teacher? - Answers -
Socrates is truly wise because he knows that he does not know whereas others are
fools because they think they know but they do not know that they do not know. (Only
the Divine is truly wise//Human wisdom is worth little or nothing.)
True or False: Socrates questioned what the oracle at Delphi meant about him being
wiser than others. - Answers - True
One valuable practice from the Sophists is: - Answers - That law students learn to argue
both sides of a case
The actual charges against Socrates in his trial were two; name those charges -
Answers -
True or False: The oracle at Delphi was always ambiguous in the answer given. -
Answers - True
How did King Croesus misinterpret the answer to his question about whether he should
go to war against the Persians? - Answers -
True or False: The best pupil of Socrates, Alcibiades, became a general in the Athenian
army. Out of anger when Athens dismissed him during the war against Sparta,
Alcibiades betrayed Athens by giving Sparta secrets about the walled city of Athens.
This betrayal probably prejudiced the jury against Socrates, suggests Dr. O'Meara. -
Answers - True
True or False: Socrates never disobeyed Athens in any battle by running away as a
coward. - Answers - True
True or False: Socrates is faithful to two moral principles that he does know, "that it is
evil and base to do wrong (by violating one's conscience) and to disobey my superior,
whether he be man of god." - Answers - True
True or False: Socrates never questioned the meaning of the oracle that there was no
one truly wiser than Socrates. - Answers - False
,How did Socrates at first interpret the statement of the oracle? How did he later interpret
it? - Answers -
What does Socrates believe about wisdom and God? wisdom and humanity? - Answers
-
Socrates makes a comparison between his response to the generals at Potidaea (and
two other places) and his response to God. What is that comparison? - Answers -
How does Socrates view his response to God's message through the oracle and one of
the present charges brought against him? - Answers -
What is Socrates view of death? - Answers -
Why will Socrates not cease from teaching philosophy? - Answers -
What has Socrates spent his whole life in going about and attempting to persuade his
fellow Athenians to accept? - Answers -
Does Socrates view death as an evil or as a good? Why? - Answers -
What does this statement mean for Socrates: no evil can happen to a good human
being? - Answers -
What is his request for his sons? - Answers -
True or False: Aristotle wrote down the Aristotelian Principle, and John Rawls is only
quoting him. - Answers - False
What is the Aristotelian Principle? - Answers -
True or False: A person's conception of their own self-worth involves (1) having a sense
of one's goal or goals in life as worthwhile, and (2) having confidence in one's means
and abilities to pursue that goal or goals as effective in pursuing that goal or goals. -
Answers - True
True or False: When we have confidence (1) in the worthwhile quality of our own goal in
life, especially as fulfilling the Aristotelian Principle in life, and (2) in our means to
achieve that goal, then we can appreciate others, for example, in a sport who have
excelled in pursing their worthwhile goal, and they, for example, our coaches, can
appreciate us in our efforts to achieve our similar Aristotelian excellence. - Answers -
True
True or False: Self-respect, therefore, in our chosen Aristotelian excellence, enables us
to appreciate others who have done or doing well in achieving a similar Aristotelian
, excellence, and others who are achieving their own similar Aristotelian excellence can
appreciate us in a similar manner. - Answers - True
True or False: Appreciation from others helps us to appreciate ourselves, and our own
self-appreciation likewise helps us to appreciate others. - Answers - True
The better way to learn compassion is - Answers - from the actual practice of
compassion under the guidance of a master practioner of compassion much as one
would learn to drive a car in traffic under the gudance of a master driver
True or False: Judaism teaches a path of compassion whereas Greek Rationalism in
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle does not. - Answers - False
True or False: Hinduism teaches a path of compassion whereas Buddhism does not. -
Answers - False
True or False: Confucianism teaches a path of compassion whereas Taoism does not. -
Answers - False
True or False: Virtue for Aristotle gives a person the same absolute rule to follow, for
example, about telling the truth. - Answers - False
True or False: Virtue for Aristotle gives some gudeline towards acting but allways under
the direction of practical wisdom. - Answers - True
True or False: Virtue involves a mean between two extremes, excess and defect, for
example, when we face a difficult situation of helping another peprson who is being
mugged, we can respond recklessly or in a cowardly fashion. Again, when we need to
tell the truth in a difficult situation, we can tell it recklessly with brutal honesty or in a
defective way by telling a falsehood. The trutuhful person is practically wise in telling the
truth in a sensitive manner appropriate to the practical ability of the other person who
can grow from that truth - Answers - True
As a knife has a function of cutting and a good knife is one which cuts welll, so also a
human being has the function of being ___________________ and a good human is
one who choose and acts in accord with the well-examed life. - Answers -
The human life lived well, that is, the flourishing human life, for Aristotle is the life of
___________________ (Greek Term for Happiness, Life Lived-Well, the Flourishing
Human Life, the Life of Ongoing Self-Actualizing of Key Human Abilities under the
Guidance of Practical Wisdom). - Answers -
An Exemplar of a Life lived with Practical Wisdom in Search of the Well-Examined Life,
whom we have alrwady studied, is ________________________. - Answers -
True or False: The old charge against Socrates was that he was a Sophist. - Answers -
True
What would Socrates do in his afterlife in a heavenly realm? - Answers - Continue the
Examined Way of Life
What did Socrates learn about human wisdom according to the teacher? - Answers -
Socrates is truly wise because he knows that he does not know whereas others are
fools because they think they know but they do not know that they do not know. (Only
the Divine is truly wise//Human wisdom is worth little or nothing.)
True or False: Socrates questioned what the oracle at Delphi meant about him being
wiser than others. - Answers - True
One valuable practice from the Sophists is: - Answers - That law students learn to argue
both sides of a case
The actual charges against Socrates in his trial were two; name those charges -
Answers -
True or False: The oracle at Delphi was always ambiguous in the answer given. -
Answers - True
How did King Croesus misinterpret the answer to his question about whether he should
go to war against the Persians? - Answers -
True or False: The best pupil of Socrates, Alcibiades, became a general in the Athenian
army. Out of anger when Athens dismissed him during the war against Sparta,
Alcibiades betrayed Athens by giving Sparta secrets about the walled city of Athens.
This betrayal probably prejudiced the jury against Socrates, suggests Dr. O'Meara. -
Answers - True
True or False: Socrates never disobeyed Athens in any battle by running away as a
coward. - Answers - True
True or False: Socrates is faithful to two moral principles that he does know, "that it is
evil and base to do wrong (by violating one's conscience) and to disobey my superior,
whether he be man of god." - Answers - True
True or False: Socrates never questioned the meaning of the oracle that there was no
one truly wiser than Socrates. - Answers - False
,How did Socrates at first interpret the statement of the oracle? How did he later interpret
it? - Answers -
What does Socrates believe about wisdom and God? wisdom and humanity? - Answers
-
Socrates makes a comparison between his response to the generals at Potidaea (and
two other places) and his response to God. What is that comparison? - Answers -
How does Socrates view his response to God's message through the oracle and one of
the present charges brought against him? - Answers -
What is Socrates view of death? - Answers -
Why will Socrates not cease from teaching philosophy? - Answers -
What has Socrates spent his whole life in going about and attempting to persuade his
fellow Athenians to accept? - Answers -
Does Socrates view death as an evil or as a good? Why? - Answers -
What does this statement mean for Socrates: no evil can happen to a good human
being? - Answers -
What is his request for his sons? - Answers -
True or False: Aristotle wrote down the Aristotelian Principle, and John Rawls is only
quoting him. - Answers - False
What is the Aristotelian Principle? - Answers -
True or False: A person's conception of their own self-worth involves (1) having a sense
of one's goal or goals in life as worthwhile, and (2) having confidence in one's means
and abilities to pursue that goal or goals as effective in pursuing that goal or goals. -
Answers - True
True or False: When we have confidence (1) in the worthwhile quality of our own goal in
life, especially as fulfilling the Aristotelian Principle in life, and (2) in our means to
achieve that goal, then we can appreciate others, for example, in a sport who have
excelled in pursing their worthwhile goal, and they, for example, our coaches, can
appreciate us in our efforts to achieve our similar Aristotelian excellence. - Answers -
True
True or False: Self-respect, therefore, in our chosen Aristotelian excellence, enables us
to appreciate others who have done or doing well in achieving a similar Aristotelian
, excellence, and others who are achieving their own similar Aristotelian excellence can
appreciate us in a similar manner. - Answers - True
True or False: Appreciation from others helps us to appreciate ourselves, and our own
self-appreciation likewise helps us to appreciate others. - Answers - True
The better way to learn compassion is - Answers - from the actual practice of
compassion under the guidance of a master practioner of compassion much as one
would learn to drive a car in traffic under the gudance of a master driver
True or False: Judaism teaches a path of compassion whereas Greek Rationalism in
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle does not. - Answers - False
True or False: Hinduism teaches a path of compassion whereas Buddhism does not. -
Answers - False
True or False: Confucianism teaches a path of compassion whereas Taoism does not. -
Answers - False
True or False: Virtue for Aristotle gives a person the same absolute rule to follow, for
example, about telling the truth. - Answers - False
True or False: Virtue for Aristotle gives some gudeline towards acting but allways under
the direction of practical wisdom. - Answers - True
True or False: Virtue involves a mean between two extremes, excess and defect, for
example, when we face a difficult situation of helping another peprson who is being
mugged, we can respond recklessly or in a cowardly fashion. Again, when we need to
tell the truth in a difficult situation, we can tell it recklessly with brutal honesty or in a
defective way by telling a falsehood. The trutuhful person is practically wise in telling the
truth in a sensitive manner appropriate to the practical ability of the other person who
can grow from that truth - Answers - True
As a knife has a function of cutting and a good knife is one which cuts welll, so also a
human being has the function of being ___________________ and a good human is
one who choose and acts in accord with the well-examed life. - Answers -
The human life lived well, that is, the flourishing human life, for Aristotle is the life of
___________________ (Greek Term for Happiness, Life Lived-Well, the Flourishing
Human Life, the Life of Ongoing Self-Actualizing of Key Human Abilities under the
Guidance of Practical Wisdom). - Answers -
An Exemplar of a Life lived with Practical Wisdom in Search of the Well-Examined Life,
whom we have alrwady studied, is ________________________. - Answers -
