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Cephalus said that when it comes to “you know what” and old age, quoting Sophocles, he feels as if he had escaped a “frenzied and savage ______________.”
master
One definition of justice that was brought up involved speaking the truth and paying your __________.
debts
Polemarchus suggests that justice be defined as “doing good to your friends and ___________ to your enemies.”
Harm
Thrasymachus says that justice is “the interest of the ______________.”
stronger
According to Socrates, ___________ rulers rule for the interest of the public and not for their own interest.
True
According to Socrates, justice probably should not involve _____________ anyone.
Harming
According to Socrates, an art, such as medicine, ought not serve the interest of the practitioner of it, but rather, when speaking of medicine, the _________________.
patient
It might appear that the "just" man is __________________ when it comes to anything in particular.
useless
According to Glaucon, justice is a compromise between an individual’s desire to commit injustice and not wanting to _____________ injustice.
suffer
One legend, based upon the Ring of Gyges, is intended to show that most people would commit unjust actions if they could avoid_____________.
punishment
In the “comparison of lives” experiment, it might be preferred to ____________ just, but to really be unjust.
appear
Because justice might be difficult to discern in an individual, it will be necessary to construct a _______________ to better observe it.
city
The origin of the city is based upon the provision of basic _________________, such as housing and food.
Needs
The origin of injustice might be desiring more than you _____________.
need
According to Socrates, Homer is guilty of __________________ the true nature of the gods.
misrepresenting
In what appears to be contradictory to his earlier argument, Socrates suggests that the soldiers in the ideal city must be good to friends and _____________ to enemies.
evil
Physicians always put the well-being of their patients first.
False
Anytime a judge renders a verdict it is always perceived as "just" by all sides of the dispute.
False
The ________________________ is used to illustrate the origin of the state’s citizens.
Myth of the Metals
According to the myth of the metals, _________________is associated with the ruling element.
Gold
While, ordinary individuals are not supposed to lie, it appears to be acceptable for rulers to engage in such behavior, so long as it is for the _________________ of the city.
Good
Warriors, or guardians, must be taught to not fear ______________.
Death
According to Socrates, ____________________ has the capacity to insinuate itself most fully into the soul.
Music
Socrates finds most styles of immitation to be ___________________ for the individuals in the ideal city.
inappropriate
The rulers of city shall be the ones who most _______________it, as a "whole."
Love
It seems that Socrates is saying that proper love must be oriented toward order and beauty, and not involve _________________ relations.
Sexual
The virtue associated with the “spirited” element of the soul is _____________.
courage
The virtue associated with the “rational” element of the soul is _______________.
wisdom
A city can increase its size or territory, as long as its _______________remains intact.
unity
According to Socrates, any new style of music could be _________________ to the existing political order.
dangerous
Socrates suggests that “friends have all things in common,” including, perhaps shockingly,___________________.
women
According to Socrates, qualities flow from _________________ into the city, since where else would they come from?
individuals
As the group further seeks to uncover the meaning of justice, Socrates suggests that it might mean everyone doing the one thing they were _______________ to do.
designed
To the extent that any desire is held in check, it is because the _______________part of the soul is opposing the satisfaction of that desire.
rational
Those who run the chicken industry, do not see the value of baby female chicks and therefore send them to be ground up.
false
An almost universal consensus exists that Fergie's rendition of the national anthem is perhaps the best.
false
It initially seems absurd to the crowd that Socrates would suggest that men and women ___________ together, absent any clothing, in the gymnasium.
exercise
Socrates suggests that the rulers __________ the male and female guardians, as if they were dogs or horses.
breed
It appears that Socrates is suggesting _____________ for those offspring that are born to “lesser” guardians, or with a physical disability.
infanticide
In Socrates’ plan, the newborns will be removed from their mothers and taken to a ________ , with great care taken so that none know their own child.
pen
Socrates argues that by being free from particular wives and children, the city will be free from __________.
faction
It is important for Socrates that the ideal city deal with other Greek cities as if they are ___________ and not foreign enemies, as they do presently (i.e. they should not burn their fields and houses).
kin
According to Socrates, it is only when ______________ rule that the ideal city will come into being.
philosophers
At the end of Book V, Socrates attempts to make a distinction between knowledge and ____________.
opintion
In Shakespeare's rendering, Brutus never loved Caesar at all, and in fact, told him so as the latter lay mortally wounded.
false
If you happen to be in the market for an old-style Roman Empire War Dog, you may want to consider picking up a:
cane corso
In order for an eye to see an object, a third element, _______________, is necessary.
light
The relationship between the “sun” and the “object” corresponds to the relationship between _____________ and “truth/being.”
the good
According to Socrates, the true philosophers are “at present” deemed __________________ by the many (i.e. the average person).
useless
True philosophers are “lovers of what ____________.”
is
It appears that Socrates likens philosophy to a _________________.
muse
According to Socrates, those with a philosophic nature are a __________________ breed.
rare
According to Socrates, it was _________________ for the ideal regime to come into being, though the chances were fairly low.
possible
The true philosopher is the only one who can know, or commune, with the realm of ______________.
ideas
Contrary to what Socrates argued, there is no difference in "average" strength between those who are biologically male or biologically female.
false
According to Socrates, it seems that the population will consider "normal" whatever it gets used to.
true
The individuals shackled in the cave are observing _________________.
shadows
As one emerges from the cave, one notices _______________.
objects
When the escapee from the cave sees the sun for the first time, his eyes _______________.
hurt
According to Socrates, the one who emerges from the cave (i.e. the escapee) does not ____________to return to the cave.
desire
According to Socrates, ______________ is NOT the "highest" subject to study, as it still deals with specific particulars.
astronomy
According to Socrates, the study of __________________is the highest intellectual pursuit, as it leads toward truth.
mathematics
In order for the city to come into existence at all, anyone over the age of _____________will be sent out to the country (hmm, perhaps Socrates had something else in mind….)
ten
The philosopher will be ready to rule at the age of ____________.
fifty
According to Socrates, the physical chair you are sitting upon is more "real" than the "idea" of the chair.
false
According to Socrates, the “ideal state” (or regime type) is ________________.
aroctocracy
The perfect state begins to deteriorate when a mistake is made in the number and quality of _____________ in a particular year.
births
According to Socrates, the highest virtue in a timocracy (i.e. that associated with military honor) is ______________.
courage
According to Socrates, in an oligarchy, the highest virtue is the acquisition of ________________.
wealth
As oligarchy runs its course, there is an ever-increasing number of people in _______________. (Hmm….sound familiar? Think student loans)
debt
According to Socrates, in a democracy, the highest virtue is ________________.
freedom
In a democracy, citizens are expected to indulge in their base _________________.
desire
According to Socrates, the “worst state” (or regime type) is ________________.
tyranny
According to a former editor of the NEJM, studies funded by corporate entities can always be trusted, even if they have a financial interest in the outcome of the study.
false
If "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" then a universal "beauty" might not exist.
true
If you have any desire to run for office you might appear to be genuinely interested in the well-being of the people if you claim you do not really want to run
true
According to Socrates, the tyrannical city is the most ____________________ of cities.
wretched
According to Socrates, the city ruled by kings (i.e. philosophers) is the ___________________ of cities.
happiest
The tyrant becomes a slave to his ___________________.
desires
Ultimately, the tyrant will ______________ those around him, especially the more masculine amongst them, for fear that they will take what he has or overthrow him.
purge
According to Socrates, ________________is the furthest from the truth
intimidation
In the story of_____________, Socrates retells the experience of a man who was allowed to get a glimpse of the after-life and then report back what he saw.
er
According to Socrates, there is a reincarnation of souls in which one gets to choose a new particular life except for the _____________, who cannot.
tyrant
Odysseus chose the life of a ___________, who minds his own business.
private man
It has been the customary practice since at least the 1990s to separate the "name" of an arena or stadium -- as a commodified entity -- from the arena or stadium itself.
true
According to Aristotle, the most sovereign and inclusive of human associations, or the one that has reached the "height of self-sufficiency," is the _______________.
polis
According to Aristotle, the first (or most basic) of associations is the ___________, or the household.
family
According to Aristotle, the polis is prior in the order of ______________ to the family
nature
According to Aristotle, the thing that distinguishes man from animals is __________________.
language
According to Aristotle, anybody who by nature is not his own man, but another’s is by nature a _______________.
slave
According to Aristotle, men are _______________ to women.
superior
Aristotle believes that it is always unjust for one man to belong to another man.
false
Aristotle indicated that a master might be generally useless as far as physical labor is concerned.
true
According to Aristotle it is _____________ for money to beget money.
un-natural
According to Aristotle, a man should rule over his wife the way a statesman rules over a fellow ___________, but in a more "permanent" kind of way.
citizen
Aristotle really liked it when women were ____________________
silent
As transactions became more complex, and as trade spread over more distant regions, simple barter-exchange gave way to trade via use of _________________.
currency
Aristotle considers hunting, whether it be for animals or _____________, is one method of acquisition.
humans
