Review Sheet for Text #1
1) Philosophy may be the love of wonder rather than the love of knowledge.
2) Thought is a new concept that comes to one's mind.
3) Wisdom is the ultimate form of love to Socrates.
4) Wonder … (revert to #1)
5) Questions of philosophy include “How do we know what we know?”, etc.
6) Aporia is the equivalent of bewilderment
7) Scholars are people of leisure; people who are able to put concepts to rest.
8) Continental philosophy
○ German and French descent
○ mystical, literary, etc.
Analytic philosophy
○ British descent
○ explores capacity of logic; mathematical language, etc.
○ syllogisms !
The divide between the two occurred near the year 1900.
9) Plato’s Forms consist of ideas that focus on…:
○ true reality
○ eternal forms of things that exist physically but forms of things
themselves are not physical
○ things being beautiful, just, good, etc.
10) Reasons Socrates was put on trial included…:
○ not believing in gods (he believed in other gods)
○ corrupting youth of Athens
○ making the worse argument stronger; manipulating
11) Socrates proposed 2 possibilities of death.
○ 1) no perception, eternal, etc.
○ 2) migration of the soul (his belief)
, 12) Socrates is like a gadfly because he annoys the citizens of Athens when he
attempts to philosophize with them.
13) “Unexamined life is not worth living” - Plato’s Apology of Socrates
14) Plato’s Republic uses the allegory of the cave to pose the question “How do we
know what we know?” It also proposes that our soul is imprisoned by our
bodies. (example: The Matrix film)
15) The guardians of the city, the prisoners, the puppeteers, etc…. (revert to #14)
16) Epistemology is the study of knowledge.
17) Ethics is what id right/wrong; morality
18) Plato (427-347 B.C.)
○ student of Socrates
○ born into very wealthy political family
○ wrote 30 Socratic dialogues + other works
Socrates (469-399 B.C.)
○ lived during Golden Age of Athens
i) flourishing of ideas
ii) prosperity
iii) great tragedies and comedies in theatre
○ Peloponnesian War participant
○ Father was sculptor, mother was midwife
19) Socratic irony is used to describe when Socrates would “play dumb”, be coy,
etc.
20)Plato’s Euthyphro claims that piety is what is dear to the gods; having some sort
of faith and religious devotion.
21) Syllogisms are deductive logic.
○ compares sound/unsound and valid/invalid -- 2 different forms of truth
○ Made up of major premise (example: “all men are mortal”), minor premise
(example: “Socrates is a man”), & conclusion (example: “Socrates is
1) Philosophy may be the love of wonder rather than the love of knowledge.
2) Thought is a new concept that comes to one's mind.
3) Wisdom is the ultimate form of love to Socrates.
4) Wonder … (revert to #1)
5) Questions of philosophy include “How do we know what we know?”, etc.
6) Aporia is the equivalent of bewilderment
7) Scholars are people of leisure; people who are able to put concepts to rest.
8) Continental philosophy
○ German and French descent
○ mystical, literary, etc.
Analytic philosophy
○ British descent
○ explores capacity of logic; mathematical language, etc.
○ syllogisms !
The divide between the two occurred near the year 1900.
9) Plato’s Forms consist of ideas that focus on…:
○ true reality
○ eternal forms of things that exist physically but forms of things
themselves are not physical
○ things being beautiful, just, good, etc.
10) Reasons Socrates was put on trial included…:
○ not believing in gods (he believed in other gods)
○ corrupting youth of Athens
○ making the worse argument stronger; manipulating
11) Socrates proposed 2 possibilities of death.
○ 1) no perception, eternal, etc.
○ 2) migration of the soul (his belief)
, 12) Socrates is like a gadfly because he annoys the citizens of Athens when he
attempts to philosophize with them.
13) “Unexamined life is not worth living” - Plato’s Apology of Socrates
14) Plato’s Republic uses the allegory of the cave to pose the question “How do we
know what we know?” It also proposes that our soul is imprisoned by our
bodies. (example: The Matrix film)
15) The guardians of the city, the prisoners, the puppeteers, etc…. (revert to #14)
16) Epistemology is the study of knowledge.
17) Ethics is what id right/wrong; morality
18) Plato (427-347 B.C.)
○ student of Socrates
○ born into very wealthy political family
○ wrote 30 Socratic dialogues + other works
Socrates (469-399 B.C.)
○ lived during Golden Age of Athens
i) flourishing of ideas
ii) prosperity
iii) great tragedies and comedies in theatre
○ Peloponnesian War participant
○ Father was sculptor, mother was midwife
19) Socratic irony is used to describe when Socrates would “play dumb”, be coy,
etc.
20)Plato’s Euthyphro claims that piety is what is dear to the gods; having some sort
of faith and religious devotion.
21) Syllogisms are deductive logic.
○ compares sound/unsound and valid/invalid -- 2 different forms of truth
○ Made up of major premise (example: “all men are mortal”), minor premise
(example: “Socrates is a man”), & conclusion (example: “Socrates is
