PHIL101 TEST 1 UD ROGERS 2025
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
QUESTION 1
Socrates against moral relativism - ANSWERS-no evidence for moral relativism
but enough to prove it false. ___ would ask if you can really commit to moral
relativism in practice
QUESTION 2
socrates' goal of human life - ANSWERS-lead a good and happy life
QUESTION 3
Why is Socrates called the wisest man in Athens? - ANSWERS-He recognizes the
limitations of his knowledge. (He knows that he doesn't know lots of stuff.)
QUESTION 4
Who: Epistemic method: The mid-wife - ANSWERS-socrates' ___ method is the
___-wife
QUESTION 5
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midwife idea - ANSWERS-We do communicate...we must possess some sort of
shared knowledge.
What needs to happen is that the vague and confused knowledge within needs to
be drawn out and clarified.
Most especially, we need to seek beyond the individual, changing things to find...
QUESTION 6
socrates' The universal idea is - ANSWERS-• ...the nature or essence of a thing
which it shares with other members of its kind.
• What makes just just, cats cats, beauty beauty, etc
QUESTION 7
Socrates' virtue - ANSWERS-• Virtue = knowledge. Virture boils down to a kind
of knowledge
• You would never knowingly do something wrong.
• Seems obviously false until you see what Socrates means by "virtue."
• Virtue=actively aimed at achieving goal of human life, which is happiness
QUESTION 8
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what is happiness to socrates - ANSWERS-Happiness= fulfilling your function ,
your nature as a human being
o So grasping essence is crucial
QUESTION 9
• Epistomology - ANSWERS-• Epistomology: you know things you did not learn
through your senses
o 2+2=4
o It's wrong to torture small children for fun.
o A cat is a cat, and I know one when I see one.
o Why can't you get this info through your senses?
• Senses have a role of knowledge acquisition
o Sense give us info on particulars
*Your senses have access only to changeable things, so they cannot give you
immutable truth.
QUESTION 10
What is in the World of the Forms - ANSWERS-Immaterial, Eternal, immutable,
perfect 'blueprints' of things (e.g. mathematical principles, natures)
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ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
QUESTION 1
Socrates against moral relativism - ANSWERS-no evidence for moral relativism
but enough to prove it false. ___ would ask if you can really commit to moral
relativism in practice
QUESTION 2
socrates' goal of human life - ANSWERS-lead a good and happy life
QUESTION 3
Why is Socrates called the wisest man in Athens? - ANSWERS-He recognizes the
limitations of his knowledge. (He knows that he doesn't know lots of stuff.)
QUESTION 4
Who: Epistemic method: The mid-wife - ANSWERS-socrates' ___ method is the
___-wife
QUESTION 5
END OF
PAGE 1
, PHIL101 TEST 1 UD ROGERS 2025
midwife idea - ANSWERS-We do communicate...we must possess some sort of
shared knowledge.
What needs to happen is that the vague and confused knowledge within needs to
be drawn out and clarified.
Most especially, we need to seek beyond the individual, changing things to find...
QUESTION 6
socrates' The universal idea is - ANSWERS-• ...the nature or essence of a thing
which it shares with other members of its kind.
• What makes just just, cats cats, beauty beauty, etc
QUESTION 7
Socrates' virtue - ANSWERS-• Virtue = knowledge. Virture boils down to a kind
of knowledge
• You would never knowingly do something wrong.
• Seems obviously false until you see what Socrates means by "virtue."
• Virtue=actively aimed at achieving goal of human life, which is happiness
QUESTION 8
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, PHIL101 TEST 1 UD ROGERS 2025
what is happiness to socrates - ANSWERS-Happiness= fulfilling your function ,
your nature as a human being
o So grasping essence is crucial
QUESTION 9
• Epistomology - ANSWERS-• Epistomology: you know things you did not learn
through your senses
o 2+2=4
o It's wrong to torture small children for fun.
o A cat is a cat, and I know one when I see one.
o Why can't you get this info through your senses?
• Senses have a role of knowledge acquisition
o Sense give us info on particulars
*Your senses have access only to changeable things, so they cannot give you
immutable truth.
QUESTION 10
What is in the World of the Forms - ANSWERS-Immaterial, Eternal, immutable,
perfect 'blueprints' of things (e.g. mathematical principles, natures)
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