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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Callicles, what does limiting freedom limit?

2. What does Socrates say people who are victims of injustice need to acquire?

3. What attitude does Socrates see defines a person with self-control?

4. What does Socrates claim is the greatest evil in Chapter IV?

5. In Socrates' opinion, what is an evil way to deal with injustice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relevance of everyone experiencing pleasure and pain differently?

2. How do Socrates and Callicles' opinions of freedom clash?

3. Why does Socrates regard medicine as a good action?

4. According to Socrates, what makes a good soul?

5. Callicles argues that one should not neglect the natural order. What does the natural order offer that convention cannot?

6. According to Socrates, what does a soul in harmony do?

7. Is "justice" one sided? Can there be multiple types of justice? Why or why not?

8. Why does Socrates dislike things like cookery?

9. How does Socrates suggest the order between men, heaven, and earth be maintained?

10. Should people avoid injustice or act justly? According to Socrates, which is better? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Socrates' method of the correction of injustice and its plausibility or implausibility.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the nature of good and bad as discussed by the philosophers in Gorgias.

Essay Topic 3

How is the ideology presented in "Gorgias" something that we see in our society today?

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