PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED
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◉ Socrate's Famous Credo & what does it mean?
Answer: "*A life unexamined is not worth living"*
-think freely, come up with own ideas
-encouraged to examine and be controversial
(similar to..
"policy unexamined is not worth executing"
"practice unexamined is not worth adhering to", etc.)
◉ Virtue is _____________ and ______________ is Virtue (& by who?)
Answer: Virtue is KNOWLEDGE & KNOWLEDGE is virtue
By: Socrates
,◉ Dialetic Method
Answer: AKA Socratic Method
-question and answer, opposing sides so people can form own
opinion
◉ Reasoning
Answer: People think things through/analyze in order to come up
with own conclusions/opinions.
"pure method of thinking by which proper conclusions are reached
through abstract thought processes"
◉ Reasoning has been developed as
___________________________________________________________
Answer: an exchange between a point and counterpoint
(can happen between several people or in own's mind)
◉ 3 Elements of the Reasoning Process ( & by who?) What is it's
result?
Answer: By: Socrates
,*1.Thesis*- idea
*2. Anti-Thesis* - Response, (counterargument?)
*3. Synthesis* - compromise between the 2
-becomes the new thesis, allows more anti-thesis's, which leads to
more synthesis'
*Result: Truth* (after cycle continues until no more)
◉ T/F, The Reasoning Process can be known as a cycle
Answer: TRUE - because someone comes up with a thesis (idea).
There are always counterarguments to every idea. People can come
to a consensus on that, creating a synthesis.
then, the synthesis is the new thesis, which will create more counter
arguments to that idea, etc....
do the cycle until no more???
RESULT: TRUTH!
, ◉ Pure Reasoning
Answer: A factual idea that is logical. Came up with without
emotions or opinions[?]
"intellectual talent that proceeds rationally and logically without
reliance on sense perception or individual experience"
◉ Goal of Reasoning
Answer: Figure out truth...
"determine the true nature of life and to investigate the intricacies of
human choice - questions that are always present, right under our
noses, but elude our knowledge"
◉ The highest level of knowledge is ________________. Who says this?
Answer: By: Plato
*reasoning*
◉ Theory of the Divided Line & BY WHO?
Answer: By: Plato