Exam 3: The Sophist: Protagoras

Democritus held that everything was atoms.

The Greek word for wise led to the term sophos .

Atoms were, for the ancient Greeks, divisible parts of a larger whole.

Who wished that war would disappear from the lives of men, and was criticized for this?

What did the Sophists hold was the only natural good?

Hadot was an early Greek philosopher.

Which ancient Greek philosopher held that by nature the strong dominate the weak?

Athens was a democratic state.

Which relationship did Heraclitus think was fundamental?

Thales held that everything was mind.

Do you believe that people should be required to pay for their educations, or should it be free to all who could benefit? Argue for your view.

Pythsagoreans held that numbers were illusions.

Do you believe that the sophists played a useful role, or not? Explain your answer. Do you think that they are any modern equivalents of sophists in contemporary society? Do they play a useful role, or not? Do your answers to these questions differ, and, if so, why?

What is an inherent property of atoms?

Thales fell into a well.

The popularity of a position is a measure of its merit.

Persuasive speaking is known as

Plato held that the poisoned loans of moneymakers were one of the causes of increasing numbers of beggars.

Parmenides transformed the study of cosmology into the study of ontology.

Who developed the argument of the Flying Arrow?