5 Written questions

1. Disease of the soul, but most people don't know they have it.

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2. 1. Socrates goes to a public place, starts small talk, and then initiates the
philosophical convo.

2. Socrates isolates a key term in the discussion. Before they can continue the
discussion, he needs them to define the term for him.

3. Interlocutor gives definition.

4. Socrates asks questions and through these questions shows that the definition
is wrong.

5. Interlocutor gives another definition (Repeat 4&5)

6. Interlocutor: Realizes they don't know anything. Gets angry and storms off or
stays for further discussion.

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3. A few sensible people are more frightening than a senseless mob. Love is
young, gentle, courageous, beautiful, wise, brave, sensitive, judicious,
tender/flexible, and just. BASICALLY BS!

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4. (19th Century Danish Philosopher, Kierkegaard) When you question the

aspiration of a role and never get an answer/maintain uncertainty but continue to
do the role. Has to stop you in your tracks. It shows that you care about the role
by asking yourself. Is ironic because despite being uncertain, you continue the
role anyway.

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5. Covers his head. Wants to disassociate the words with himself. Just said
the speech to show how easy it is to make a lousy argument look good (said
basically the same thing as Lysias).

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5 Matching questions

1.

"Republic"

2.

"Phaedrus"

3.

"Symposium"

4.

Philosophy

5.

"Phaedo"

A. Narrator: Phaedo. Socrates is about to drink the poison in jail surrounded

by Crito, Simmias, and Cebes. Plato was "sick." He is in good spirits because
philosophers have been training for death their whole lives and Socrates knows
he's going somewhere better than here.

B. Narrated by Apollodorus: Socrates, Phaedrus, Pausanius, Aristophanes,

Eryximachus, Agathon, Aristodemus, and Alcibades talk about what they each
think love is at a banquet at Agathon's house instead of getting drunk.

C. The rational pursuit of truth.

Sifting through the BS.

Love of wisdom.

Ability to think critically.

How we ought to live

What we do we know & How do we know it?

Make sense of the world.

D. The allegory of the cave. Question: What is justice? What are the effects of
education on our soul? There are prisoners in the cave whose knowledge goes
no further than the shadows they see on the wall, which are misshapen forms of
reality. A philosopher comes down and grabs one of them and shows them the
light. At first the prisoner is angry when the philosopher drags him
(mental/philosophical violence) out of the cave because he is blinded and he
realizes all of his options and beliefs are wrong... until his eyes adjust and he
then becomes a philosopher himself.

E. Phaedrus reads Lysias' speech about the fortune of befriending a non-lover

versus being in a relationship with a lover. Socrates says a speech in return that
is the same thing as Lysias', but does it to show the power of rhetoric.

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5 Multiple choice questions

1. Metaphysics - Cosmological (Origins of the Universe) - Is there a god?

1. Critical Thinking

2. How ought we to live?

3. How do we know it?

4. What do we know?

2. What do we know?

How do we know it?

How ought we to live?

1. Questions philosophy asks

2. Ignorance (according to Socrates)

3. Lysias/Phaedrus in "Phaedrus"

4. Philosophy of Human Nature

3. Came from the knowledge of his ignorance.

1. Socrates' Wisdom

2. Socrates' First Speech in "Phaedrus"

3. Socrates on Pain + Pleasure in "Phaedo"

4. Existential Irony

4. Ethics - What is good?

1. What do we know?

2. Philosophy of Human Nature

3. How do we know it?

4. How ought we to live?

5. Form of Verbal Irony. Socrates says he doesn't know what the term means
and continues questioning when those aren't his true motives and he knows the
definition/there is no concrete definition to the term. The feigning of ignorance in
order to challenge an interlocutor

1. Critical Thinking

2. "Phaedrus"

3. Socratic Irony

4. Swan Song in "Phaedo"

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5 True/False questions

1. Origin Story of Love/The Goal of Love: Mortals were once two people put
together, but we became too strong so Zeus split us in half. We are now looking
to reunite with our other half, who is perfect for us. This is our attempt at trying to
find the person to fill our void. Initially, when we found our other half, nothing
happened but Zeus moved our parts so that we could rejoin our bodies together.
→ Why Socrates was Happy to Die in "Phaedo"

True False
2. Gets his legs released from the chains. He feels pleasure but he wouldn't
have felt it if his legs hadn't been in pain prior to. Pain and pleasure are
connected since we don't find one without the other. (Similar to how sadness and
happiness are relative to each other). → Socrates on Pain + Pleasure in "Phaedo"

True False

3. Piety and corrupting the youth. (Socrates thinks corruption is wrong.

Someone who is corrupt would be taking souls and making them corrupt. When
we suffer injustice from others, it's better than if we do an injustice ourselves
AKA corrupting ourselves.) → Why Socrates is on Trial

True False

4. Discusses rhetoric. Giving a good speech/being a good orator. Is aware

that rhetoric can be used for good and evil. Good: Leading to truth. Evil: Leading
away from truth. → Socrates' Second Speech in "Phaedrus"

True False

5. Diotima taught Socrates about love through the Socratic Method.

In between wisdom and ignorance is right opinion. Love is not beautiful because
it desires what is beautiful. Love is not good because it desires what is good.
Love is like right opinion, because it is in between (like a Diamon).

Love Diamon is not immortal and not mortal. It is a connection between gods and
mortals. Its parents are resource (dad) and poverty (mom).

Love, in getting people to desire beautiful things, also gets people to desire good
things = happiness for people.

We seek out motivation & Inspo that will fuel us to give birth to more creative
things. Fundamental Goal: To seek beauty/goals to further develop our ideas.
Mortal's only way to have immortality is through creation.

Love makes us want to continue through these stages of what we seek when
we're seeking beauty: One Beautiful Body -> Beautiful Bodies -> Beautiful, Moral
Souls -> Beautiful Institutions & Laws -> Beautiful Knowledge -> Beauty Itself
(Philosophical Understanding) → Socrates' Speech in "Symposium"

True False