PHI-102         Examination #1 - Units 1 & 2

All answers must be in well-formed sentences and well-formed arguments and well-formed paragraphs, so plan your answers wisely. Support your conclusions; don’t try to be succinct or ‘efficient’. All answers should be based on only the class’ assigned readings, class discussions and your own solid thinking. Please use your text, your class notes and any other reference you please, but do not just quote, paste in or simply paraphrase your responses, and use your own words to make your own answering argument. Show your thinking, not your memory or look-up information skills. If you must use a quote, it must be limited and include proper citation. Argue. Pledge! Quote and cite from assigned readings (only).

Please respond to only 4 of the following questions for 15 points each:

1. Relate the class’ ideas about knowing, believing, and faithing to mythos and logos.

2. Detail how ‘rarefaction and condensation’ relate to ‘love and strife’.

3. Critically relate the strengths and weaknesses of the pluralists’ accounts.

4. Consider how sophia and phronesis relate to Parmenides’ ideas:

5. Relate the class’ ideas about the “-tivities” to Anaximander’s thought.

6. Relate the two studied main forms of arguments to knowing and believing.

7. Contrast Sophos from Sophists from Philosophers.

8. Explain how a studied, common fallacy is associated with one of the philosopher’s theories covered so far.

9. Critically compare and contrast Thales’ and Heraclitus’ accounts of the basis of reality.

10. How is the Sophists’ view of truth true?

11. What are two distinct, reasonable ways to understand Protagoras’ claim that “Man is the measure of all things”?

Provide respond to only 2 of the following (20 points each):

12. How would Aristotle respond to the Socratic claim that only the care of the soul/mind matters?

13. Contrast Plato’s and Aristotle’s ideas about what virtues are:

14. Explain how Aristotle’s ‘mean relative to us’ is objective:

15. Explain Aristotle’s theory of the mean in terms of the three laws of reason:

16. How does Aristotle hierarchy of explanations account for the reality of things?

17. Compare and contrast Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of form:

18. How does Aristotle’s cultivation of one’s own virtues preempt selfishness?

19. Defend and critique Plato’s ideas about the tripartite (three part) soul and city:

20. How does Plato’s theory of knowledge make sense?

21. What part of Plato’s view of humanity in the Cave is least convincing?

22. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Socrates’ intellectualist view of doing wrong?

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