Ancient Greek Quiz Chapter 5 Study Questions and notes
• According to this image, (a) how does a soul get to be just, and (b) how does each of these
... [Show More] creatures relate to one another in a just soul?
- A human has most control. He takes care of the beast like a farm animal. He makes the lion his ally.
• According to this image, (a) how does a soul get to be unjust, and (b) what is the relationship between these three creatures in an unjust soul? - He feeds the beast and the lion, starving the human part so that it drags wherever the others lead.
• (a) According to Socrates, who is harmed more by an act of injustice—the perpetrator or the victim? (b) Why is this person more harmed than the other?
- The perpetrator- his soul is full of disorder and regret, and succumbed only to the bad parts of the soul
• According to Socrates, how ought one to identify an expert?
- To identify an expert it is someone who is teaching the subject
• (a) What is Laches' first attempt at giving a definition of courage? (b) Why does it fail?
- Courage is staying at your post and not running away. It fails by the generality
requirement.
• (a) What is Laches' second attempt at giving a definition of courage? (b) Why does it fail?
- A kind of endurance of the soul. He can't describe whether it is foolish or wise.
- Socrates revises Laches' second definition of courage. (a) What is the revised definition? (b) Why does it fail? - A) courage is a wise endurance of the soul B) people that act foolishly are considered courageous
• (a) What is Nicias' definition of courage? (b) Why does it fail?
- Knowledge of what should inspire terror or confidence in war or any other
circumstance. The knowledge of good and evil is in turn all of virtue, not courage.
• According to Phaedrus, (a) what is love and (b) what effect does love have on us? - A) Love teaches us shame in acting disgracefully and pride in acting well B) It makes us honorable
- Pausania distinguishes between which two kinds of love? - Heavenly Aphrodite and Common Aphrodite
• (a) How did humans look in the past, according to Aristophanes? (b) Why don't they look that way anymore? - A) Human were double the person they are now- four hands, four feet, two heads, etc. B) They made threatening attacks on gods. As punishment Zeus separated them in two.
• When Socrates questions Agathon, what does he prove? - That Agathon's account of love is incorrect. It implies that Love is without beauty and good things, and if we desire something it means that if we have something we can't love it
- Is Love a god, according to Diotima? Why/why not? - No, Love is a spirit, falling between being a god and being a human
• With what kind of love does the ascent passage (210a - 212b) begin? What is the final (highest) kind of love? - It begins with being attracted to beautiful bodies. The final kind of love is loving Beauty itself.
• List all of the ways in which—according to Alcibiades' speech—Socrates has amazing control over his body (his physical self). - Socrates doesn't get aroused, drunk, hungry, or bored. He is very brave.
- Who are the "earlier accusers" Socrates identifies in the Apology? - Aristophanes
• Name two of the "earlier accusations" Socrates says have been made against him (in the Apology): - He does not believe in the gods and he teaches how to make a weaker argument overcome a stronger argument by means of clever rhetoric
- Who are the "later accusers" Socrates identifies in the Apology? Name all three of them. - Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon
• Name the two charges made against Socrates in the deposition (i.e., the "later accusations"): - Corrupting the minds of the young and believing in supernatural phenomena of his own invention rather than the gods of the state
- What does the oracle at Delphi say about Socrates? (Answer in 1 sentence) - There is no one wiser than Socrates
• How does Socrates interpret the message of the oracle at Delphi? (Answer in 1 sentence) - Interprets the oracle as saying that the wisest of men are men like Socrates who humbly accept that their wisdom is deficient
- How does Socrates refute the charge that he corrupts the city's youth? - Every single male in the city has to have a good influence on the youth other than Socrates [Show Less]