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

16. Philosophy is countercultural

a. In what respects is philosophy countercultural? Should it be countercultural?

b. Why does Socrates question statesmen, then poets and magicians?

c. Kreeft says “[t]he whole world is guilty of [Socrates’] death.” Do you agree? Why or why not? Are there any parallels with the death of Jesus?

d. Kreeft writes, “Neither politics nor art nor science nor technology can tell us what we are and what we should be, why we live and why we die, what is good and what is evil.” Why is it important to point this out?