Philosophy Worksheet
Kreeft, Philosophy 101 by Socrates

Directions:
1. Please type your answers to these questions. (Handwritten answers will be accepted, but at a 15-point penalty.)
2. Put your name on at the top of the page.
3. Number your answers. Each answer should be at least four sentences long.
4. Print out two copies of your answers -- one for you and one for me -- and bring them to class. Late papers (turned in after the class is over) will earn a zero for the assignment.

I. The Apology of Socrates: Philosophy Defended

15. Philosophy is laborious

a. Read about the labors of Hercules at the following Web site: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html. In what ways are Socrates’ and Hercules’ “labors” the same? In what ways are they different?

b. Is philosophy laborious, as Socrates insists? Is it harder than playing an instrument or solving a complex mathematical problem? Defend your answer.

c. Kreeft argues that we can fool ourselves into thinking we’re pursuing truth, when the reality is that we’re just fooling around. What does he mean? Do you agree or disagree with him?