Exam 3: The Sophist: Protagoras

What did the Sophists make Athenian education?

Ethnocentrism is from Greek roots meaning the race at the center .

Who was the first great Western philosopher?

Amaury de Riencourt was a disciple of Descartes.

Gyges was from

Do you believe that philosophers should charge for their services? How would they go about this? Does your answer presuppose anything about the value of philosophy? From where might value of any discipline come from?

Zeno held that everything is always changing.

Who were the first philosophers to charge fees for their knowledge?

Logos is one of the richest and most complex terms in ancient philosophy.

The Greek term for ordered whole is

The view that might makes right is an expression of

The bar-bar noise made in certain non-Greek dialects led Greeks to call those who made it sheep .

Should we try to understand ourselves before we understand the cosmos as a whole? Why, or why not? Explain your answer.

Ontology is the study of being.

Do you agree with Democritus that perceptual qualities are merely matters of convention? What did he mean by this?

Why should you be moral? If you had a ring of invisibility, what would restrain you for using it for your own selfish ends? Should you restrain yourself from using it for your own selfish ends? Why?

Emperor Pius held that a person who haggled over possessions was not a philosopher.

Kosmos is the world order .

Do you believe that analytic discourse is the only path to wisdom? Explain your answer, drawing on the first three chapters of this text.

Pragmatism is from the Greek word for