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Explain the LOGICAL PROBLEM with the Horse-Trainer Argument, according to what was covered in class.
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Summarize the “Companions Argument.”
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1.) Nobody intentionally wants to risk being harmed 2.) Making your own companions bad increases your risk of being harmed of your being harmed 3.) Therefore nobody would intentionally make his own companions bad
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What does Socrates do to defend himself against Meletus’ charge that he is impious? (Be sure to state what the original charge was, and what he gets Meletus to change the charge to, and why all of this makes Meletus look bad.)
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Meletus’ original charge states that Soc. Taught the young to believe in different god’s and not the gods of Athens.Next Meletus changes the charge to Atheism.
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Now Socrates returns to the story of his life. Did Socrates serve honorably in the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian War?
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Yes
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Was Socrates a coward in battle against the Spartans? Did he desert the mission that the Athenian generals had given to him?
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No he’s not a coward in battle and he never deserts the mission that was given to him.
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Will Socrates desert the mission that he thinks God has given him – namely, philosophizing publicly?
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No, he will not abandon his divine mission
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Who suffers more, according to Socrates – an evildoer, or the victim of the evildoer? why?
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Socrates famously compares himself to a ___________ and compares Athens to a _____________. (FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE CORRECT ANIMALS.)
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Socrates famously compares himself to a gadfly and compares Athens to a horse.
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Now explain the comparison: First, what makes a gadfly different from an ordinary fly?
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Gadfly is a biting fly, it keeps coming back
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Next, what does Socrates DO that makes him like a gadfly upon the “horse” known as Athens?
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Because Socrates is trying to bite Athens with his questions and keep the city mentally awake
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What is a “daimon”?
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Ancient Greek version of a guardian angel
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How does Socrates say his daimon communicates with him – as an inner voice, or as a supernatural vision of an angelic being?
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As an inner voice
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What did Socrates’ daimon always tell him NOT to do?
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Not to get involved with politics
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Why, according to Socrates, did the daimon not want him to do that?
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Because good people get killed when they enter politics
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Did Socrates’ daimon command him to do philosophy?
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No
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