Deck 4: The Wise Man: Socrates

Question 1

We know of Socrates only from Plato.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Plato wrote the Memorabilia .

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Socrates held that happiness was a matter of inner qualities.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Socrates wrote nothing philosophical.

Question 5

Aristotle wrote the Symposium .

Question 6

Socrates guiding motto was, "Do as you would be done by."

Question 7

For Socrates, it was important to engage with others.

Question 8

Socrates talked about incontinence in its original sense as lack of self-control.

Question 9

Socrates was executed by Athens.

Question 10

Plato claimed that Socrates wrote a hymn to Apollo.

Question 11

Socrates was handsome.

Question 12

Jaspers referred to paradigmatic individuals.

Question 13

Socrates held that to have no wants was divine.

Question 14

Socrates never used irony.

Question 15

Socrates referred to himself as a gadfly.

Question 16

Socrates was paid for teaching.

Question 17

Socrates used a dialectical method of questioning.

Question 18

Socrates was unmarried.

Question 19

Socrates was a pagan.

Question 20

Socrates had only one coat.

Question 21

There were similarities between the thought of Socrates and Buddha.

Question 22

The Oracle at Delphi said that no man was wiser than Plato.

Question 23

Who said that to lead a worthless life was an evil?

A) Socrates
B) Diogenes
C) Aristotle
D) Lao-tzu

Question 24

Egoism emphasizes

A) Beliefs
B) Emotions
C) Others
D) Desires

Question 25

At some times in Greek history techne meant

A) Art
B) Possibility
C) Soul
D) Causation

Question 26

Socrates described himself as

A) a fisher of men
B) a fisher of souls
C) a physician of men
D) a physician of souls

Question 27

What did Socrates claim virtue was?

A) Love
B) Habit
C) Trust
D) Wisdom

Question 28

Polydamas was an athlete.

Question 29

Alcibiades said that he would almost be happy to learn that Socrates was dead.

Question 30

Who wrote the Gorgias ?

A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Cicero
D) Lao-tzu

Question 31

​Socrates prayed to receive "good gifts."

Question 32

Socrates believed he was ignorant.

Question 33

Alcibiades disliked Socrates.

Question 34

Who said that to pretend to know what you do not know is a disease?

A) Socrates
B) Buddha
C) Lao-tzu
D) Aristotle

Question 35

Socrates denied that humans have souls.

Question 36

The claim that behavior is always controlled by belief about what is good and the means to that good is

A) Sophistry
B) Akrasia
C) Intellectualism
D) Dualism

Question 37

What did Socrates think we are?

A) Our souls
B) Our words
C) Our actions
D) Our society

Question 38

What does no one knowingly do?

A) Harm to others
B) Evil
C) Good
D) Good to others

Question 39

Thrasymachus held that the values of a society reflected the interests of the strong.

Question 40

Socrates was charged with rejecting the gods acknowledged by Rome.

Question 41

At which battle was Socrates the last Athenian to give way?

A) Thrace
B) Bull Run
C) Delium
D) Hollin

Question 42

Who used Buddha and Jesus as examples of paradigmatic individuals?

A) Marx
B) Jaspers
C) Mill
D) Frankl

Question 43

To whom was Socrates married?

A) Octavia
B) Zenophon
C) Xanthippe
D) Cleanthes

Question 44

How many sons did Socrates have?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 45

Do you believe that Socrates could be blamed for neglecting his family? Why or why not?

Question 46

What did jurors use to vote with in ancient Athens?

A) Bronze disks
B) Bronze tablets
C) Iron pyrites
D) Iron rings

Question 47

To whom did Socrates owe a cock?

A) Asclepius
B) Crito
C) Cicero
D) Alcibiades

Question 48

How many members were on the Athenian Committee?

A) 30
B) 100
C) 300
D) 500

Question 49

Socrates was poisoned by

A) Conine
B) Cocaine
C) Heroin
D) Cyanide

Question 50

What did Socrates think should determine beauty?

A) Usefulness
B) Attractiveness
C) Intellectual appeal
D) Sexual appeal

Question 51

Do you believe that Socrates is admirable because he died for his ideals? Is it always admirable to die for one's ideals? What if one's ideals are foolish, or evil?

Question 52

Who said that he found the men in most repute to be the most foolish?

A) Lao-te
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Marx

Question 53

Who said that one ought not to talk as though he were asleep?

A) Herod
B) Hesiod
C) Heraclitus
D) Socrates

Question 54

How many parts did an Athenian trial consist of?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 55

When Socrates prayed, who did he think should decide which gifts he should receive?

A) The wise
B) The gods
C) The Oracle
D) Fortune

Question 56

John Milton had his poetic Satan state, "Evil, be thou my good." How would Socrates respond to this? Explain your answer.

Question 57

Who challenged Socrates to a beauty contest?

A) Plato
B) Crito
C) Critobulus
D) Pseudo-Plato

Question 58

Who claimed that status and riches would come at the expense of one's integrity?

A) Lao-tzu
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Lie Zi

Question 59

Do you think that Socrates' approach would really work to change a society or not? Explain your answer. Do you think that this was his aim? If so, why? If not, what was his aim?

Question 60

Do you believe that Socrates had a duty to die? Why or why not? Do you think that you have a duty to obey the State? Explain your answer.

Question 61

Do you believe that Socrates' insistence on his principles was a form of vanity? Explain your answer.

Question 62

Do you agree with Socrates' account of beauty? Explain your answer.

Question 63

What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method are? Would you like to have Socrates as a teacher? Why or why not?