Question

This philosopher’s use of a word that can mean “remedy” or “poison” is analyzed by Jacques Derrida in an essay titled for this thinker’s “Pharmacy.” Ammonius Sacchus taught a founder of a philosophical school named for this thinker, who collected 54 treatises into the Enneads. Porphyry and Plotinus were members of a philosophical (10[1])school named for this thinker that identified the absolute, transcendent One with this philosopher’s Form of the Good. A work (10[1])by this author contains an allegory about a group of people who are only able to see (10[1])the (10[1])shadows (10[1])on the wall of a cave. (10[1])For 10 points, name this student of Socrates whose dialogues included the Republic. ■END■

ANSWER: Plato [or Platon; accept Neoplatonism or “Plato’s Pharmacy”; accept Socrates before “Pharmacy” is mentioned]
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2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y6100%0%0%81.83