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

27. Philosophy is pneumatic

a. Socrates wants all philosophers to seek to experience the “inspiration” of the Spirit when doing philosophy. Explain what he means.

b. Socrates says “something divine and spiritual comes to me” when he philosophizes. Does it seem that Socrates is “groping” for God, to use St. Paul’s word in Acts 17:27? Or is God seeking him out (or speaking to him)? Please give me your theory.

c. Do you think Socrates, if he had been alive during or after the time of Jesus, would have become a Christian? Why or why not?