Unit 4 Quiz — The Human Turn: Sophists and Socrates
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Which feature most distinguishes the Sophists from the earlier Presocratic thinkers?
Protagoras' doctrine that 'man is the measure of all things' is best understood as a form of…
The nomos–physis debate raised by the Sophists concerns whether…
What is the primary aim of the Socratic elenchus?
'Socratic ignorance' is best described as the view that Socrates…
Which claim follows from Socrates' thesis that 'virtue is knowledge'?
In Plato's Crito, why does Socrates refuse to escape from prison?
In the Phaedo, Socrates faces death calmly because he regards philosophy as…
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Explain and critically assess the Socratic thesis that 'virtue is knowledge', including its most striking consequence — the denial that anyone acts against their own better judgement (akrasia).
What to cover: Explain Socratic intellectualism and the paradoxes that follow (no one does wrong willingly, the unity of the virtues, the impossibility of akrasia); then weigh the strongest objection, drawing on Aristotle's later reply.
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