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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. What does Socrates believe that satisfying desires is equal to?

2. What does Socrates believe that wanting and desiring involve feeling?

3. What does Callicles claim legislation to be?

4. What does Socrates believe should be the result of any action taken?

5. What does Socrates believe all people experience the same?

Short Essay Questions

1. How should unjust or out of control souls be treated, in Socrates' opinion?

2. In Socrates' opinion, how is flattery bad?

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

4. According to Callicles, where should one's rights originate from?

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

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

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

8. What is Socrates' belief about how one acquires excellence?

9. What effect does Socrates believe order and self-control have on happiness?

10. According to Callicles, where is philosophy useful and how can it be detrimental?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

By focusing on the figures in the discussion in "Gorgias," discuss the dangers and blessings of power. How do these men represent using power? Where does it come from? What is the response? What does this prove or disprove?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the nature of humanity based on their abilities to persuade and be persuaded as addressed by Gorgias.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the power of knowledge as well as its effect on the individual and on the individual's surroundings.

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