What must Socrates know before he can know whether virtue can be taught? Why? 

what virtue is 

Socrates's bee analogy illustrates what flaw in Meno's initial definition of virtue? 

fails to identify single common essence that defines virtue 

Why does "virtue as the ability to rule" fail to satisfy Socrates's request for a definition of virtue? 

not all  are in a position to rule  

What, in addition to truth, is important to what Socrates calls dialectic? 

understanding and agreement  

For what reasons does Socrates (and Meno) arrive at the conclusion that no one desires evils (or, to say it another way, that everyone desires good things)?

nobody desires to be unhappy  

Why does Meno compare Socrates to a stingray? How does Socrates modify (and thus clarify) this comparison? 

socrates perplexes meno with his questions  and socreates himself is perplexed 

For what reasons is Eros (i.e., Love) not himself in possession of beauty and goodness? 

to desire anything to desire something you lack  

For what reasons is Eros claimed to be a philosopher? What is a philosopher?  

 eros is neither wise nor ignorant, but loves/ desires wisdom  

What are the stages (or steps) of love, as explained by Diotima to Socrates? 

love of individual body,  concept of body (general idea),  the soul/mind of others, collaboration (learning from others), minds coming together , branches of knowledge/culture, true beauty itself (the form)   

According to Socrates in the Meno, dialectic must involve 

answering what is true but also ensuring that each participant in the discussion agrees and understands what is claimed to be true

In Plato’s Symposium, Diotima demonstrates to Socrates that if something is not beautiful 

that does not mean it must be ugly 

In Plato’s Meno, we find Socrates saying that if virtue can be taught 

there would then be teachers of virtue but, alas, he has never found any  

____argues that we cannot know that there is an enduring self since we have no sense perception of such a thing, only "a bundle or collection of different" perceptions, none of which persist through time   

David Hume

is the view that the mind (reason) structures our experiences of the world. 

Transcendental Idealism 

______________________is the view that the deliverances of sense-perception constitute our knowledge. 

Empiricim

As discussed in class, when we refer to the epistemological source of a belief, we are referring to________________________ 

what justifies or supports the truth of the belief 

____ is the view that no knowledge of reality is possible. 

Skepticim

According to John Locke, there are ___

no innate ideas as made evident by the fact there is no universal consent

In Plato's Symposium the figure of Love is described as not attractive, but as "ever poor…..rough and hard, and homeless and unshod," with neither money nor a bed, and who, consequently, sleeps "in doorways and beside roads," yet always pursues "good and beautiful things." As discussed in class, Plato's personification of Love, which casts Love as both needy and resourceful, strongly suggests

Plato is identify the figure of love with Socrates

As discussed in class ____ _is a main area of philosophy that addresses questions about the nature of reality, its underlying structure, substance, and source

metaphysics

Which of the following questions is raised by the Paradox of Inquiry, as it emerges in the Meno:

how is one to inquire into what one doesn't know when one doesn't know what one is to inquire into?

Hume's empirical criterion of meaning specifies that_.

any philosophical term that cannot be traced back to an actual sense impression must be regarded with suspicion.

For Kant, if the mind itself unifies perceptions then.

it must itself be a unified single awareness.

. In "Borges and I," the author renders a portrait of himself in which ____

"Borges" turns the interests and preferences of the "I" into the attributes of an actor

.for descartes ____ form the criteria for our rational intuition of foundational truths.

clearness and distinctness

As discussed in class, Anselm proposed if we understand what is meant by God we understand then God to be

a thing that which nething greater ean be thought

As Camus explains, the body of facts that make up scientific knowledge___

is not the kind of knowledge that would enable us to apprehend the meaning of the world and our individual existence.

According to George Berkeley, there are ___

no properties existing independently of the perception of those properties

As discussed in class,_ is the metaphysical reading of Hume's argument about the self.

that there is no self

As discussed in class, Anselm's demonstration, if valid and sound, of God's existence would be an example of something known to be true ____

a priori

A key piece of John Locke's theory of knowledge is that our ideas ___

are prompted by things external to us and can accurately represent (in part) these things

In "Borges and I," the author renders a portrait of himself in which

"Borges" will outlive or endure past the "I."

is the view that only minds and their ideas exist, and that the existence of a thing depends on that thing being perceived.

Metaphysical Idealism

As Nietzsche understand it, Greek Tragedy can

vividly reveal the horror and truth of existence to us without destroying us in the

As discussed in class, for Locke, a ___ - quality is considered to be a quality that belongs to an entity independently of any perceiver. For instance; the size of an object is thought to be this kind of quality.

primary

____ is the area of philosophy that addresses the nature, origin, extent, and justification of knowledge:

Epistemology

At the very start of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, he states that_______________is “that which all things seek.” 

The good  

For Albert Camus, the two components that make up the absurdity of existence are_________. 

our rational demand for meaning and a world without meaning 

According to Camus, ____________is not the logical outcome of absurd existence as it eliminates one of its terms instead of following from it.  

Suicide

For Camus, scientific explanations _____________________.   

are indifferent to my personal, individual fulfillment as a human being 

. For Albert Camus, the two components that make up the absurdity of existence are_________. 

Sisyphus's task 

What are instrumental goods?

Vehicle to get to other goods 

What is Akrasia 

acting against one's better judgment, lacking restraint  

What is Eudaimonia

well-being , thriving, flourishing, excelling, actualizing 

Ethical intellectualism fails to account for  

Weakness of will 

Aristoles thoughts includes work on  

 physics, literary theory, metapysics 

The only thing that is good in itself  

Good will

Aristotle distingues between two difference kinds of  

virtues

Aristotle is a forerunner to  

empiricism

What is Consequentialism utilitarianism  

argues an action is right and so far that it promotes the greatest happiness for the biggest number of people