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PLATO AND THE REPUBLIC
1.
What kind of ruler did Plato think a truly just society needed?
2.
Where was Plato born?
3.
Who was Plato’s teacher?
4.
What did Socrates use with his to students to get them to question their own beliefs and assumptions?
5.
In what two ways did all male citizens directly participate in Athens?
a. b.
6.
How were citizens in Athens selected to hold government posts?
7.
Why could any person take time away from his work to attend the Assembly and jury trials?
8.
Why did Socrates criticize Athenian democracy?
9.
What city-state was Athens fighting during the Peloponnesian War?
10.
Who elected the men with the most political power in Sparta?
11.
What kind of government did Sparta have?
12.
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
13.
Why the Spartan oligarchy not last long in Athens?
14.
When was Socrates put on trial?
15.
What was Socrates “suspected crimes”? a.
16.
How was Socrates found?
17.
Why did Socrates refuse to escape Athens before his death?
18.
As a result of Socrates death, what was Plato’s conclusion about democracy?
What does this mean?
What was restored?
How old was he?
19. What was Plato’s school of philosophy called?
purpose?
20.
What was Plato’s most important work called?
21.
Where does The Republic take place?
22.
Which character in The Republic reflects Plato’s opinions?
23.
What are the three classes of a just society in a “just state”?
a.
b.
c.
When will individuals be at their happiest?
24.
b.
What was his punishment?
What was the school’s
What was its main goal?
25.
Which city-state influenced Plato’s view toward the Guardian’s of the ideal state?
26.
According to Plato, what things have no place in the ideal state?
27.
What are the two sub classes of the Guardians and how are they selected?
a. b.
28.
Who owns all the land and control all the wealth but has no role in governing according to Plato?
29.
Why do those people have the property and money?
30.
According to Plato, why do philosophers make the best rulers (did not tell the story)?
31.
What is the purpose of the philosopher-king?
32.
Why is it a thankless job to be a philosopher-king?
33.
At age is one old enough to rule the ideal state?
34.
What kind of power does the philosopher-king have?
35.
Why is there no need for laws in the ideal state?
36.
Identify and describe three of the four “unjust states”.
a.
b.
c.
37.
According to Plato, why does a tyrant come to power?
38.
According to Plato, is it better to at justly or unjustly? Explain.
39.
What do you think Socrates meant by, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”?