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PHIL 101 TEST 1 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE ALL 150 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+(BRAND
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Question: True or False: The old charge against Socrates was that he was a Sophist.
ANSWER: True
Question: What would Socrates do in his afterlife in a heavenly
realm?
ANSWER: Continue the Examined Way of Life
Question: What did Socrates learn about human wisdom
according to the teacher?
ANSWER: Socrates is truly wise because he knows that he does
not know whereas others are fools because they think they know but they do not know that they do not know. (Only the Divine is truly wise//Human wisdom is worth little or nothing.)
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Question: True or False: Socrates questioned what the oracle at Delphi meant about him being wiser than others.
ANSWER: True
Question: One valuable practice from the Sophists is:
ANSWER: That law students learn to argue both sides of a case
Question: The actual charges against Socrates in his trial were
two; name those charges.
ANSWER: Impiety against god, corruption of youth
Question: True or False: The oracle at Delphi was always ambiguous in the ANSWER given.
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ANSWER: True
Question: How did King Croesus misinterpret the ANSWER to
his question about whether he should go to war against the Persians?
ANSWER: King Croesus asked the oracle if he should attack
the Persians, and the oracle replied that if he did, a great empire would fall. Croesus interpreted this to mean he would defeat the Persians, but the ambiguity led to his downfall as it was his own Lydian empire that fell.
Question: True or False: The best pupil of Socrates, Alcibiades, became a general in the Athenian army. Out of anger when Athens dismissed him during the war against Sparta, Alcibiades betrayed Athens by giving Sparta secrets about the walled city of Athens. This betrayal probably prejudiced the jury against Socrates, suggests Dr. O'Meara.
ANSWER: True
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Question: True or False: Socrates never disobeyed Athens in any battle by running away as a coward.
ANSWER: True
Question: True or False: Socrates is faithful to two moral principles that he does know, "that it is evil and base to do wrong (by violating one's conscience) and to disobey my superior, whether he be man or god."
ANSWER: True
Question: True or False: Socrates never questioned the meaning of the oracle that there was no one truly wiser than Socrates.
ANSWER: False
Question: What does Socrates believe about wisdom and God?
Wisdom and humanity?