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What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method? |
| | A) | He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible. |
| | B) | He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any argument. |
| | C) | He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all Greece. |
| | D) | He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge of the essential nature of things. |
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Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato? |
| | A) | In our heads, as ideas. |
| | B) | In physical objects. |
| | C) | In a separate, immaterial realm. |
| | D) | In the cave. |
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How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato? |
| | A) | By reason. |
| | B) | By the senses. |
| | C) | By intuition. |
| | D) | By mystical experience. |
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Which would Plato have agreed with? |
| | A) | The senses alone can provide knowledge. |
| | B) | Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging. |
| | C) | Man is the measure of all things. |
| | D) | The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance. |
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Plato had three famous theories: |
| | A) | The Theory of Forms, The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of the Oracle. |
| | B) | The Theory of Fire and Becoming, The Tunnel Theory, The Theory of Knowledge. |
| | C) | The Theory of Becoming, The Theory of Relativity, The Theory the Absolute Truth. |
| | D) | The Theory of Knowledge, The Theory of Love and Becoming, The Theory of Forms. |
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When the Delphi Oracle pronounced Socrates to be the wisest of people, Socrates thought the pronouncement referred to the fact that he: |
| | A) | was aware of the ignorance of most other philosophers. |
| | B) | was aware of his own ignorance. |
| | C) | was aware of everything and nothing. |
| | D) | never wrote anything |
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Three of Plato's more enlightening and well-known dialogs are: |
| | A) | Apology, Republic and Meno |
| | B) | Republic, Apology and Love |
| | C) | Aesthetics, Knowledge and Apology |
| | D) | Apology, Republic and Nous |
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