TASK DEFINITION: In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
PROBLEM: Hans-Georg Gadamer argued that the ideal described in this work is heuristic in nature in an essay about this work's author "and the poets. " Books six and seven of this work assert that knowledge is ultimately for the Good, which shines on intelligible essences like the sun. It asserts that love is "a tyrant" over man, and compares imaginative, real, intelligent, and abstract levels of thought to a line divided into four segments. In its first book, Thrasymachus describes justice as "the advantage of the stronger," while its seventh book likens people unaware of Forms to humans viewing shadows on the wall of a cave. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue that describes an ideal society.

SOLUTION: Social Science

PROBLEM: In this work, a definition of justice as "what is good for the stronger" is given by Thrasymachus. In this work, a story about the killer of King Candaules of Lydia is used to describe how people are just out of necessity. That story in this work tells of the [*] "Ring of Gyges." This work describes chained prisoners who watch shadows pass before them. This work combines ideas about the "divided line" and the sun into its "Allegory of the Cave." For 10 points, name this work that proposes a government ruled by philosopher kings, a dialogue on government by Plato.

SOLUTION: Literature

PROBLEM: By the equivalence principle, a homogenous gravitational field is equivalent to this quantity. The time derivative of this quantity is jerk. In the kinematic equation for position as a function of time, this quantity is the coefficient of the time-squared term, because it is the (*) second derivative of position. By Newton's Second Law, it is equal to force over mass. For 10 points, name this quantity that is the ""a"" in ""F equals m a. ""

SOLUTION:
Science