Deck 2: Socrates Part 2: Life and Death

Question 1

According to the text, knowledge, not character, is required if one is to apply critical thinking to life.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Socrates was a supporter of the Thirty Tyrants.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Thirty Tyrants executed political opponents and took away rights-just like dictators of today.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Athens won the Peloponnesian War.

Question 5

Socrates was a strong advocate of direct democracy.

Question 6

The Thirty Tyrants formed a democratically elected government.

Question 7

Socrates argued that reason ought to rule the other two parts of the soul.

Question 8

Socrates argued that reason needs to be corrected by the emotions.

Question 9

Socrates argued for the immortality of the soul.

Question 10

Socrates was executed by the Athenian state.

Question 11

Socrates could have escaped his sentence if he had wanted to.

Question 12

Socrates advocated trying the generals as a group, rather than one by one.

Question 13

Socrates arrested the former general Leon on orders from the junta.

Question 14

Socrates served as Prime Minister of Athens.

Question 15

Socrates argued that reason must serve desire and emotion.

Question 16

Socrates believed that all human beings are in some important sense equal.

Question 17

Socrates talked only with educated people.

Question 18

One of Socrates's moral failures was his refusal to talk with women.

Question 19

Socrates was executed for sending aid to Sparta.

Question 20

Socrates was executed for deserting his post in the Peloponnesian War.

Question 21

Socrates was charged with these two offenses:

A) speeding with his chariot and failing to obey a traffic officer
B) fraud and not paying his taxes
C) hitting his wife and kicking his dog
D) not believing in the traditional gods and corrupting the youth

Question 22

Which of the following are among the character traits required for effective critical thinking?

A) pride and prejudice
B) humility and courage
C) honesty and a sense of humor
D) mathematical abilities and musical talent

Question 23

Socrates argued that these are the three parts of the soul:

A) reason, emotions, taste
B) emotions, sight, sense
C) reason, passion, appetite
D) reason, will, love

Question 24

Socrates defined truth as:

A) what you believe to be true.
B) what you are ignorant of.
C) what most people believe.
D) what the gods say.
E) correspondence with reality.

Question 25

Reason is preeminent because:

A) it is the only faculty available for correcting errant feelings and desires.
B) it is the only part of the soul capable of examining and correcting itself.
C) both of the above.
D) none of the above.

Question 26

Defend the claim that reason ought to rule the other parts of the soul.

Question 27

What character traits do you believe are required for effective critical thinking? Why?

Question 28

Explain an episode from the life of Socrates that you believe illustrates character.

Question 29

What is Socrates's idea of human equality?

Question 30

What characteristics does Socrates require in a good interlocutor?

Question 31

Should feeling or desire rule the soul? Argue for your position.