What is the Socratic method? Define it and demonstrate its workings in philosophical conversation in both the Meno and

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Answer the following questions in essay form:

1. What is the Socratic method? Define it and demonstrate its workings in philosophical conversation in both the Meno and in the Apology. What role does numbness and confusion play in this method? (30 points)

2. Define the Doctrine of the Mean articulated in the second book of the Nicomachean Ethics. Give at least two examples of it at work in our pursuit of standards for Excellence. (30 points)

CHOOSE either 3 or 4 : ( 40 points)

3. For the painting, Death of Socrates (1787) , answer the three following questions:

a) What is the historical moment of its realization and why does David choose to paint Socrates?

b) What is the relationship you infer from a close look at the painting of the relationship of the philosopher, Socrates and the process of dying and death itself.

c) Choose a formal element such as color, costume, objects used , musculature, play of light and shadow, positions of figures and the like and demonstrate its valus to enhancing content.

4. For the painting , Aristotle (1653) , answer the similar a and c questions and for b, what is the relationship between philosophy , poetry and politics depicted in the painting.

One can access the two paintings on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website

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