20 question about plato

Plato believed that we are born with an ability to comprehend concepts such as virtue, justice, beauty and good.

• True

• False

Plato's writings included subjects from the philosophy of... (2 answers, select both)

• Language and cosmology

• Reading and writing

• Language and arts

• Love and beauty

According to Plato, who are the "saviors of our society"

• Artists

• Poets

• Philosophers

• Women

What does Plato believe about the productions both of the painter and the poet?

• He believes that they are imitations of life, which appearances and not realities.

• He believes that neither painter nor poet have any knowledge of what they imitate.

• He believes that picture and poems tell us nothing about life.

• He believes all of the above.

Which philosopher wrote "The Republic"?

• Plato

• Homer

• Aristotle

• Archimedes

According to Plato Philosophers, properly trained

• can model their lives after the ideal of perfection that the

  senses disclose to them.

• can model their lives after the ideal of perfection that reason

  discloses to them.

• cannot model their lives after the ideal of perfection that reason discloses to them

• can model their lives after the ideal of perfection that emotion

  discloses to them.

What was one of Plato's most famous books?

• The Republic

• The Bible

• The Great Gatsby

• The Book of Socrates

Plato was a

• Rationalist

• Empiricist

• Materialist

• Monist

In what year did Plato establish his Academy outside of Athens?

• 380 BCE

• 420 BCE

• 378 BCE

• 428 BCE

What was the idea behind Plato's Cave theory?

• that people are sometimes are trapped without real understanding.

• the people should hide in a cave to get away from other people.

• Answers are always found in a cave.

• seek to find the truth