Plato – Background

1. Describe Plato’s relationship with Socrates. Page ___ ?

2. What were Plato’s 2 main motives for writing the “Dialogues?” Page ___ ?

3. When does “Socrates end and Plato begin?” In other words, what was the key difference between their ideas? Page ___ ?

4. What topic was very interesting to Plato, but not Socrates? Page ___ ?

5. What was Plato’s main disagreement with Soncrates? Page ___ ?

6. What does the book mean when it says “by departing from Socrates, he follwed Socrates?” Page ___ ?

7. By which doctrine is Plato best known? Summarize this doctrine. Page ___ ?

8. Why did Plato think Mathematics was important to Philosophy? Page ___ ?

9. Plato believed that all reality was divided into two realms. What were these realms? Page ___ ?

10. Why were Plato and Soc at times considerd more Chritian than Christ? Page ___ ?