Philosophy

Read Ch 4&5 Socrates and Plato and answer the following questions

1. Deity

What do you think of Plato’s idea that God could be co-eternal with other things?  In other words, some

things, including God, have been around forever.  Besides the Creation story of the Bible, are there any

other points about Christian doctrine that would have to be altered in order to accept Plato’s view?  What

about the ‘dust’ God supposedly used to create?

2. Metaphysics

What did Plato think was real?  How did he arrive at that conclusion? (Connect it to Socrates.) Do you agree

or disagree?  If you disagree, what is the flaw in Plato’s reasoning?  If you agree, then why is a rock,

say, less real?

Ch 6&7 Aristotle and the Stoics

1. Ethics

Discuss a few differences and similarities between Plato’s, Aristotle’s and the Stoic’s ethical theories.

What do you think of Aristotle’s idea that it is people that are moral or immoral, it is not the acts

themselves that are moral or immoral?

2. Epistemology

Discuss the differences between Plato’s, Aristotle’s and the Stoic’s theories of knowing.  Plato and

Aristotle are considered 2 of the top 3 philosophers in the history of philosophy. All other epistemologies

until the 1800’s are thought to have either Platonic or Aristotelian elements in them. It is extremely

important for understanding the history of ideas/civilization that you understand the Platonic/Aristotelian

distinction.  How can you relate to any of these ways of knowing today? Can you give a concrete example of

how you have seen the Platonic/Aristotelian distinction in you life?

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