According to the editor’s introduction to the republic, the goal of elenchus [socratic] method is not only to come up with adequate definitions of important concepts like justice and piety, but also make those who practice it happier and more virtuous.

True or false ?

That statement is true.

Explanation:

In a socratic method, you're forced to use your critical thinking and analyze all possible weakness for every answers before you are making a conclusion.

Rather than basing your decision on a pure belief such as religion or norms, using Socratic method will provide you with a more objective and rational results.

When implementing this method to create concepts like justice and piety, it will create a set of laws/regulations that benefited the majority of people in different groups rather than accommodating the people with a certain race or religion. This will make the people who practice it become happier and virtuous.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

they supported black codes so the answer is a or b