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

21. Philosophy is polemical

a. How do philosophers wage “verbal combat”?

b. Socrates says that he philosophizes because a god told (ordered?) him to do so. What do you think of that? Does God tell us to philosophize? Is this what Jesus meant when he said that you must worship God “with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37)? Why or why not?

c. Kreeft says that philosophy is a “war against the forces that harm human souls.” What are these “forces”? How can philosophy help us “defeat” them?

d. If philosophy and religion both focus on the soul, how can they work together?