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| Why is it wise to believe our adversaries/rivals are worthy? |
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| We'll be better prepared for the "battle" |
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| Why does Socrates say human beings are essentially soul as opposed to body, or the body-soul composite? |
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| The body is ruled and can't rule itself. |
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| What is the maxim inscribed on the gateway of the oracle at Delphi? |
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| What does it mean to be a slave to yourself? |
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| To be driven by sins/bad behavior. |
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| How does the eye serve as a good metaphor for self-knowledge? What does self-knowledge require friendship? |
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| The eye is the only reflective part of your body. Friends are like mirrors, you can see yourself in them. |
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| What is black-and-white thinking? |
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| Only believing that the extremes exist. |
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| What is the Spartan prayer? Why is it wise to pray this way? |
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| Ask for what is noble and good. The Gods know best what is good and right, we do not. |
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| Why would an "army of lovers" be unbeatable? |
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| They do not want to embarass themselves or bring shame to their lover. |
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| What are the two kinds of love? What is the difference? (According to Pasaunias) |
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Heavenly love= soul
Common love= body |
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| Why is it better to be decieved by a dishonest lover than to be the deceitful lover? (According to Pasaunias) |
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| The decieved has nothing to be ashamed of, but the decietful has a mark on their soul. |
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| How does love manifest itself in the universe? (According to Eryximachus) |
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| How is love the recovery of our original nature? (According to Aristophanes) |
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| It allows us to return to being one, as we were before we upset Zeus. |
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| Why is love tragic? (According to Aristophanes) |
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| Love is fleeting, and cannot last forever) |
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| How does Agathon relate love to wisdom? |
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| Love is a desire for wisdom. |
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| Why does Diotima say that love is a go, buta spirit? |
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| Love NEEDS beauty, it is not beautiful. The gods are beautiful themselves. |
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| Why is love a lack? What does it lack? (According to Socrates) |
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| Love is a desire to keep what we have, it lacks beauty, but desires it. |
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| Why is love tough, shirveled, shoeless, and homeless? (According to Socrates? |
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| Love persists through ahrd times and trials. Love is not easy, it takes work. |
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| How does love make us happy? (According to Socrates) |
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| It allows us to possess good and beautiful "things" |
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| What are the two types of immortality? (According to Socrates) |
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| body (children) and soul (ideas) |
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| What is the ladder of love? (According to Socrates) |
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| Body, multiple bodies, soul, activities, science/knowledge, Beauty itself. |
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| What is the difference btween beautiful things and Beauty itself? (According to Socrates) |
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| Beauty is always the same, but beautiful things die and change, becoming ugly. |
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| Why is Socrates like a Silenus doll? (According to Alcibiades) |
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| Little golden figurines of the Gods were inside him. |
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| Why did the oracle at Delphi declare that "no one was wiser" than Socrates? |
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| Socrates knows that he doesn't know anything. He aware of his ignorance. |
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| Knowing that you don't know. |
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| What is ignorance of ignorance? |
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| Thinking you know when you do not. |
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| Why is the fear of death a manifestation of ignorance of ignorance? |
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| No one knows what death is like or what comes later, yet we seem to think we know enough to fear it. |
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| What is the "unexamined life" and why is it "not worth living?" |
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| There is no self-reflection and you can't become a better person without self-reflection. |
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| Why does Socrates compare himself to a gadfly? |
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| He is annoying to many people, but is constantly keeping them alert. |
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| What penalty does Socrates initially propose for himself after being found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens? |
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| Free meals at the Prytaneum (where the olympians eat) |
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| What are the two possibilities with respect to death according to Socrates? |
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| Either the dead are nothing and have no perception of it at all, or it is a relocation of the soul to another place. |
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| Why should we never willingly commit an injustice? Why is it better to be the victim as opposed to the perpetrator? |
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| The victim's soul is not damaged at all in the act of injustice. It is the perpetrator whos soul will be marked. |
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| In what way have we all implicity agreed to obey the laws? |
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| By continuing to stay here by choice and not go somewhere where the laws are different. |
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What is death?
How is philosophy practice for death/dying? |
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Death is separating the soul from the body.
Philosophy is about separating your soul form your body, too. |
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What is misology? How is it related to misanthropy?
Why are both views inadequate? |
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The hatred of reason. It arises from being let down by reason, just as misanthrophy comes from being let down by people.
Most people (and logic) are not extremes. |
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| What is the practical benefit of believing in the immortality of the soul? |
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| We will take better care of our souls if we believe it is immortal. |
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