2. Answer the following questions:

1. What kind of person was Socrates according to the description given in this text? What did he look like?

2. Why do you think Socrates was unimpressed with Athenian intellectual and cultural life? What views did he express?

3. How did Socrates describe himself?

4. Why was Socrates imprisoned? Why did he decline the chance to escape from prison when he was sentenced to death?

5. What our knowledge of Socrates is based on?

6. What did Socrates’s appearance on the fifth-century Athenian scene mark in the development of Greek philosophy?

7. What kind of questions did Socrates occupy himself?

8. How did Socrates achieve his high visibility?

9. How is Socrates’s dialectical purpose interpreted?

10. What did philosophy and philosophizing mean for Socrates?

11. Can you comment on main of Socrates’s views?

12. What conclusions can we make out of Socrates’s teaching?

3. Give English equivalents for the followin expressions:

сокрушаться о недостатке добродетели; неистощимое средство передачи коммуникации; сила воли; близко знакомый; выражать глубокие опасения; обвинять в сводничестве; губительный и заслуживающий смерти; так называемый здравый смысл; поразить своих современников; непобедимый в спорах; парализовать человеческий ум; несправедливое отношение; интеллектуальная повивальная бабка; придавать соответствующее значение; неудачное предприятие; божественная миссия; мистификация философии; безобидный человек; внушительный в объеме; на том основании, что; напряженная умственная работа; основная цель знаний; человеческое поведение.

4. Match the words and their definitions:

1) profess a) sleep;

2) stingray b) a project or activity which is new, exciting and difficult because it involves the risk of failure;

3) slumber c) to claim that you do it;

4) pronouncement d) a statement which is considered meaningless and boring because it has been made many times before in similar situations;

5) to refute e) the person who had your job before you;

6) venture f) a large flat fish with a long tail which it can use as a weapon;

7) apologist g) strong religious belief, or religious or dutiful behaviour;

8) platitude h) public or official statements on an important subject;

9) predecessor i) to prove that an argument or theory is wrong or untrue;

10) piety j) a person who writes or speaks in defense of a belief, a cause, or a person’s life;

11) virtue k) people who were alive at the same time as smb else;

12) visibility l) refers to someone you are criticizing for not behaving in the same way every time a similar situation occurs;

13) notoriety m) the person with whom you are having a conversation

14) contemporaries n) thinking and doing what is right and what is wrong;

15) interlocutor o) if you achieve it you become;

16) inconsistency p) how much it is seen or noticed by other people;

17) to convict q) a skill you have learnt or something you have achieved;

18) disciple r) it is when one thing is regarded as more important than the other;

19) precedence s) a person who is taught to something and tries to follow his teacher example;

20) attainment t) to find someone guilty of the crime in a law court.