Exam 3: Socrates, Plato

What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method?

When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he:

Plato's three famous theories are as follows:

Which of the following statements would Plato have agreed with?

Plato believed that some forms, especially the Forms "truth", "beauty", and "goodness", are of a higher order than other Forms.

Sometimes Plato's Forms are referred to as Ideas, and the Theory of Forms is also said to be the Theory of Ideas.

Platonic dualism was utterly rejected by early Christianity.

Plato believed that it is enough to know the truth.

Which of the following dialogues of Plato gives the best-known account of the Theory of Forms?

The Socratic/dialectic method is a search for the proper definition of a thing, a definition that will not permit refutation under Socratic questioning.

The most famous dialogue of Plato is _____, from the so-called middle period of Plato's writings, during which Plato reached the peak of his genius.

Protagoras was rejecting absolute knowledge when he said that man is the measure of all things.

Socrates did not merely engage in sophistry-he was not interested in arguing simply for the sake of arguing.

Cratylus thought that one couldn't step into the same river even once.