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What was Plato’s primary occupation?
a) Philosopher
b) Mathematician
c) Playwright
d) Astronomer -
Who was Plato’s most famous student?
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Pythagoras
d) Diogenes -
What was the name of the philosophical school founded by Plato?
a) The Lyceum
b) The Academy
c) The Stoa
d) The Cynic School -
Which famous philosopher was Plato’s teacher?
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Pythagoras
d) Diogenes -
What is the name of Plato’s most famous work?
a) Nicomachean Ethics
b) The Republic
c) Metaphysics
d) Symposium -
What concept does Plato introduce in his Allegory of the Cave?
a) The Forms
b) The Golden Mean
c) Moral Relativism
d) The Philosopher King -
In Plato’s ideal state, who would be the rulers?
a) The wealthy
b) The military
c) The Philosopher Kings
d) The common people -
Which field of study did Plato believe was the most important for understanding reality?
a) Rhetoric
b) Geometry
c) Biology
d) History -
What is the main subject of Plato’s dialogue “Symposium”?
a) Justice
b) Love
c) Knowledge
d) Politics -
Which philosophical theory posits that non-material abstract forms or ideas have the highest and most fundamental kind of reality?
a) Empiricism
b) Materialism
c) Idealism
d) Skepticism
Answer Key:
- a) Philosopher
- b) Aristotle
- b) The Academy
- a) Socrates
- b) The Republic
- a) The Forms
- c) The Philosopher Kings
- b) Geometry
- b) Love
- c) Idealism