Midterm Review

From The Trial and Death of Socrates:

The meaning of Apology

The Socratic Method
The Socratic Problem
The Delphic Oracles pronouncement
What is Socrates service to the God?
What is Socrates defense?
What are some of the ironies taking place in The Apology?
Virtue is knowledge. Evil is ignorance. No one knowingly does wrong.
No evil can happen to a good man either living or dead.
What does the good life involve?
Contrast the position of Socrates with that of Crito.
What is Socrates position concerning death? Where is this exemplified in the text?
What is Socrates view of the afterlife? (Myth of Er)
How does Socrates belief in the immortality of the soul implicate moral/ethical
decisions in the here and now?
Socrates theory of recollection
Being/becoming. Reality/appearance. Universals/particulars.
Transcendent/Immanent.
The Divided line
What is the allegory of the cave an allegory of?
What are the Forms?
What are the five characteristics ascribed to the Forms?
What does the myth of the Ring of Gyges illustrate?
What is Platos Theory of Innate Ideas? (Theory of knowledge)
What is Platos Theory of the Forms?
Why is the Form of the Good the highest Form?
Can reality be known, according to Plato? How?
What does the Quarrel of Old involve?
Why are the poets banned from Socrates ideal city?
What defense must poetry make in order to return from exile, and why is this
impossible?
Discuss some of Aristotles criticisms of Platos Theory of the Forms.
What is the problem of the chorismos? (The problem of separation)
How does Aristotle seek to improve (remodel) Platos Theory of the Forms?

According to Aristotle, what is metaphysics the study of?

Being qua being
For Aristotle, what is Being concerned with?
According to Aristotle, what is the relation between Form and sensible object?
Between the world of becoming and the world of Being?
What is First Philosophy?
Principle of Non-Contradiction
Rationalism/Empiricism
Dualism
Cartesian Method
A priori/A posteriori
Descartes metaphysical method is analogous to
Two operations of the mind: Intuition and Deduction
What is Descartes seeking?
What are Innate Ideas for Descartes?
Clear and Distinct Ideas
Why is Descartes considered the father of modern philosophy?
What is the first and primary intuition that Descartes has? What does he further
deduce from this?
What are the three arguments for universal doubt?
The Cogito Argument for Existence
Argument that Mind is more certainly known than Body. Wax example.
Trademark Argument
Ontological Argument for Gods existence
Cartesian Circle