Assignment 2

They believed that everything in their world is populated with spirits, gods, and forces with personalities, desires and intentions of their own.

• Ancient Man

• Modern Man

• Presocratics

• Scientific Man

Reincarnation means______.

• Revival

• Resuscitate

• Rebirth or reborn

• Regain

Which of the following statement is false about Protagoras?

• Protagoras was an expert in argumentation.

• Protagoras was a Sophist.

• He was the first and best Sophist.

• He strongly believed that truth is not relative.

Which of following statement about Socrates is false.

• Socrates believed that no one wants to be a bad person.

• He believed that there is no evil only ignorant people.

• Socrates committed suicide by drinking hemlock.

• Socrates was found guilty of poisoning the minds of the young.

Who was the philosopher who believed that arche is the mixture of all four elements.

• Anaximenes

• Anaximander

• Heraclitus

• Thales

In the Allegory of the Cave of Plato, the lights outside of the cave represent what?

• Knowledge

• Ignorance

• Holy Spirits

• Devine Guidance

Which of the following statement is false?

• The shadows on the wall of the cave are like the representation of things.

• The light outside of the cave represents knowledge.

• The prisoners in the cave represent us, people.

• The shadows casted on the wall represent the ideal form of goodness itself.

Which of the following statement is true.

• Philosophers were motivated mainly by their appetites.

• Soldiers were motivated mainly by their appetites.

• Tradespeople were motivated mainly by their appetites.

• No one is motivated mainly by appetites.

Plato took the idea of natural inequality in formulating his ideal form of society.

• The statement is correct.

• The statement is correct is false.

The allegory of the cave suggests that it is difficult to understand ideal society because we are accustomed to think that apparent reality is all there is.

• Statement is true.

• Statement is false.