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phl215_exam1_study_questions.docxPHL 215 – Exam #1 Study Questions
Instructions: your exam will have ten questions. At least eight of those questions will be selected from the following list. It is possible for one or two questions to appear on the exam not on this study guide.
1. How does Socrates argue for his Theory of the Forms? What five properties does Socrates ascribe to the Forms.
3. Briefly explain the immoralist challenge, using both of Glaucon’s thought-experiments (the Ring of Gyges and perfectly just/unjust persons) from Book II of The Republic.
4. Explain in detail Socrates’ mental health argument in reply to the immoralist challenge. Then briefly motivate one worry about it.
5. Explain in detail Socrates’ true pleasures argument in reply to the immoralist challenge. Then briefly motivate one worry about it.
6. Explain in detail Socrates’ argument from expert experience in reply to the immoralist challenge. Then briefly motivate one worry about it.
7. Briefly explain Aristophanes’ and Diotima’s theories of love from The Symposium.
8. Briefly explain what Socrates considers wrong with “imitative art.”
9. Briefly explain the five types of cities Socrates discusses in the Republic, and how he believes they systematically degenerate from one form to the other(s).
10. How does Socrates define true arts in Gorgias, and how does he argue that rhetoric is not a true art? How, in reply, does Polus argue that rhetoric is a true art?
