Study Guide-Exam 2

I. You should be able to identify and provide brief answers about the following.
 
 
   
Socratic irony philosopher as gadfly  
paradox of inquiry philosopher as stingray  
To know the good is to do it Divisions of the Soul Forms (Plato)
belief  knowledge Myth of the Cave
Potentiality/Actuality time (Aristotle) Conversion
Premise Syllogism Terms of Syllogism
Individuals Categories Metaphysical science
four causes (Aristotle) Hylemorphism Unmoved mover
Substance Matter Formula
Esssence Being and Truth Forms (Aristotle)
Circular motion Places of elements kinds of soul (Aristotle)
Life (definition) Soul as form Soul as separable
Thinking  Opinion Mind as potentiality
Mind as activity Immortality of soul
 

II. You will be asked to write an essay of 300-400 words on one of the following.

 

  1. Describe some of the ways in which Pythagoreanism influences the philosophy of Plato?
  2. How does Plato solve the paradox of inquiry? How sufficient is his solution?
  3. Are the forms separable or inseparable from particulars?
  4. Why, according to the Republic, is knowledge better than belief?
  5. Describe how Aristotle's hylemorphism solves the problem of the one and the many. Is it an adequate or inadequate solution?
  6. Contrast Plato and Aristotle on the soul. Which gives a more adequate account and why?