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1. How do the views of Parmenides and Heraclitus contrast with respect to the
way they characterize being?

2. Pythagoras, like Plato, has a ?two-world? view. Explain what this means, and
describe some Pythagorean doctrines and practices in terms of it.

3. Characterize Presocratic philosophy. How do the concerns of the Presocrates
differ from those of Plato?

4. Explain how some of Plato?s views on metaphysics and epistemology
contextualize what he says about virtue in the Phaedo.

5. Discuss Plato?s theory of forms. What are some of the central features that
characterize the theory? How does it provide an explanation of knowledge and
discovery?

6. According to the Phaedo, why is the soul immortal?

7. Simmias suggests that the soul is to the body as the harmony is to the lyre,
but Socrates says otherwise. What does Socrates say?

8. What evidence do we have for characterizing the Phaedo as a Pythagorean
dialogue? What does this characterization reveal about the text, that is, what
is at stake in identifying it as Pythagorean?

9. Explain Plato?s cave allegory in terms of his form theory and the divided
line.

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Parmenides and Heraclitus contrast concerning "being characters."
Parmenides focused on being, and Heraclitus concentrates on becoming a being. Both
Heraclius and Parmenides argues on an issue of growing to "the being of the beings," as they
took differing approaches and posed different questions. Although they both believed that
pairs of opposites compose cosmos, Parmenides thinks that there is the exclusion of one
member of the couple by the other member, while Heraclitus feels that precondition for the
other group is composed of one member (Vamvacas, 2009).
Pythagoras and Plato’s two worldview
According to Plato, there is mutual exclusiveness in the two worlds (Press, 1993).
There is the higher and the lower world, which are not mutually exclusive. The upper level of
the world is more valuable and real, while the smaller world is not. Pythagoras views about
the world are more religious than scientific. The essential component of Plato’s view of the
universe lies in spirituality, and causality is inseparable from the search of divinity since there
is no theology without science. There is a divine essence other than the fundamental reason
for the existence of organizations in the universe. Aristotle believes in a world that is
objective even though it may originate from chaos (Pecker, 2012).
Characteristics of Presocratic philosophy
The distinctive features and attributes of Presocratic philosophy from those of Pla...


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