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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder
Socrates, Plato

Short Answer



1

What are Platonic Forms? Include as many features as you can think of.
2

Explain the dialectic method. What was it intended to do and how does it differ from the method of the Sophists?
3

Why did Plato think that Forms exist in a separate realm from material objects?
4

What's Plato's basic argument against Protagoras?
5

Why does Plato reject the view that knowledge equals sense perception?
6

Why does Plato insist that true knowledge requires awareness and understanding of the Forms?
7

What is the Myth of the Cave?
8

Plato's metaphysics incorporates ideas from some of the earlier philosophers mentioned in Chapter 2. Identify those philosophers and their ideas.
9

Can beauty be in more than one object at one time? Explain.
10

Can you step into the same river twice? Once?








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