Plato FYP 2022 Midterm prep

Socrates

Main philosopher

Philosopher with Socrates on the day of his death

Who was Phaedo?

Freeing of the soul & no longer blinded by the bodily sense

Why is death not something that scares him?

Left hand: Limited/ superior
Right hand: Unlimited/ inferior

Pythagorean theorem of fundamental opposition

Numbers

Pythagorean theorem what is the fundamental cause of everything?

Immortality of the soul & how it goes from body to body and the body is a cage or tomb

Key belief of the Pythagoreans

Impiety- did not believe in the Gods of the city and was corrupting the youth

Why was Socrates condemned to be killed?

Sebes and Missian

Which Pythagoreans go against and question Socrates

Opinion

Key differences between ____ and true knowledge

Athens

Which town did Socrates get executed in?

Athens

Where is Plato from?

Philosopher

Who would need to rule a Polis for it to be true and just?

Sensible

All ___ share the fact that they are mortal yet they are never the same they are always changing in constant flux, _____ are always changing how can we know something of it, right one second than wrong the next because it has changed in a second.

The very meaning of a word

What is Plato searching for?

Good

Without knowledge of the _____ everything is incomplete and insecure

Truth ( intelligible beings, objects, a being)

The eminence of the good with the help of our knowing mind lets us know the ____.

Good

What is at the top?

Forms, ideas

What is the mode of Being of understanding?

Mathematics

What is the mode of Being of thought?

Sensible things

What is the mode of Being of Belief, Trust?

Images

What is the mode of Being of Imagination?

Crato

Who doesn't understand the conversation and struggles, the one who cannot be saved?

Arguments

No greater evil than hating _______

Echecrates

Who was Phaedo explaining Socrates death to