Chapter 4 Self-Quiz

. On which point does Pericles not express pride in Athens?

The government of Athens is a model for neighboring city-states to copy.

Athenians obey their laws.

Athenians love what is beautiful without becoming soft.

Athens has conquered most of the known world.

. What does Protagoras promise to teach Hippocrates?

Proper management of his own affairs and the affairs of the city.

Cleverness in speaking so he can avoid paying his debts.

Geometry, astronomy, and flute playing.

The traditional Greek virtues, as exemplified in the works of Homer.

. The key idea in rhetoric is that

one should speak the truth, no matter how it affects one's interests.

one should be able to make a persuasive case for any position.

with its help, one can avoid sleepwalking through life and align oneself with the logos.

no one should take advantage of another because of rhetorical skill.

. When Protagoras says that man is the measure of all things, he means that

it is only man, of all the animals, that has devised measures for distance, weight, temperature, etc.

what exists must be measured by what all men have in common.

there is no objective criterion available to humans by which to judge truth and goodness.

measuring is important to man for building all sorts of things.

. When Herodotus quotes Pindar's saying that custom is king over all, he means that

each group thinks its own native religion and culture to be the best.

nobody would ever question his own customs, which rule supreme in his habits and actions.

relativism is a mistake.

the king decides what customs his people should adopt.

. The relation between nomos and physis is that

the former indicates what is true by nature and the latter does not.

nothing true by nomos could contradict anything true by physis.

we can change the former, but not the latter.

nomos is divine and physis is human.

. Antiphon argues that

most of the things that are lawful (in the sense of physis) are hostile to nature.

it is better to suffer injustice than to do injustice.

if you break the rules of society for some advantage to yourself, physis will see that you are punished.

in any case, victory goes to the best speaker.

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