SOPHIA ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS UNIT
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PRACTICE
◉ Reason. Answer: Human power to think clearly and draw
conclusions
◉ Logic. Answer: A system of reason which employs a step-by-step
method of thinking through a problem or question
◉ What is real and what is true?. Answer: Two major questions of
philosophy
◉ Philosophers. Answer: Thinkers who seek to find answers to the
questions of life by reasoning to conclusions
◉ Pre-Socratics. Answer: Philosophers of the 6th and 5th Centuries
B.C. who were the first philosophers and scientists in the West and
set the stage for Socrates and those to follow
◉ Sophists. Answer: Professional teachers who believed that people
should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art
of public speaking (oratory/rhetoric) and debate
, ◉ Relativism. Answer: Rejects the idea of absolute right and wrong
◉ Socrates. Answer: Athenian sculptor who criticized the Sophists
and believe that absolute truth existed and cold be known
◉ Socratic Method. Answer: Continually asking questions of
students, who are thereby forced to think and reason for themselves
in order to provide an answer
◉ Corrupting the Youth. Answer: Why Socrates was sentenced to
death
◉ Knows that he knows nothing. Answer: Why Socrates was the
wisest of all men
◉ Plato. Answer: Philosopher and student of Socrates who wrote
about the life and thought of his teacher, as well as writing his own
philosophical ideas down in The Republic
◉ The Republic. Answer: Plato's work of political philosophy in
which he described the "ideal" form of government, which would be
ruled by philosophers and governed according to the laws of logica
1 EXAM SCRIPT 2026 FULL SOLUTION
PRACTICE
◉ Reason. Answer: Human power to think clearly and draw
conclusions
◉ Logic. Answer: A system of reason which employs a step-by-step
method of thinking through a problem or question
◉ What is real and what is true?. Answer: Two major questions of
philosophy
◉ Philosophers. Answer: Thinkers who seek to find answers to the
questions of life by reasoning to conclusions
◉ Pre-Socratics. Answer: Philosophers of the 6th and 5th Centuries
B.C. who were the first philosophers and scientists in the West and
set the stage for Socrates and those to follow
◉ Sophists. Answer: Professional teachers who believed that people
should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art
of public speaking (oratory/rhetoric) and debate
, ◉ Relativism. Answer: Rejects the idea of absolute right and wrong
◉ Socrates. Answer: Athenian sculptor who criticized the Sophists
and believe that absolute truth existed and cold be known
◉ Socratic Method. Answer: Continually asking questions of
students, who are thereby forced to think and reason for themselves
in order to provide an answer
◉ Corrupting the Youth. Answer: Why Socrates was sentenced to
death
◉ Knows that he knows nothing. Answer: Why Socrates was the
wisest of all men
◉ Plato. Answer: Philosopher and student of Socrates who wrote
about the life and thought of his teacher, as well as writing his own
philosophical ideas down in The Republic
◉ The Republic. Answer: Plato's work of political philosophy in
which he described the "ideal" form of government, which would be
ruled by philosophers and governed according to the laws of logica
