Exam 8: Plato Apology

Explain what Appiah means when he says, "What does this have to do with education? The short answer is: understanding may not help with problems that do not arise from misunderstanding. What is often required, in dealing with identity conflict, is not understanding of cultures but respect for identities."

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Appiah is suggesting that simply understanding different cultures may not necessarily solve the problems that arise from identity conflicts. He argues that the root of these conflicts may not always be a lack of understanding, but rather a lack of respect for different identities. In the context of education, this means that simply teaching about different cultures may not be enough to address identity conflicts. Instead, it is important to cultivate a sense of respect for diverse identities in order to effectively navigate and resolve these conflicts. This highlights the importance of promoting respect and inclusivity in educational settings as a means of addressing identity conflicts.

In the reading, after the jury finds Socrates guilty, he is allowed to offer a proposal for his sentence. Socrates suggests ...

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According to Locke, "it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with ..."

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Rorty tells us that, "Seen from this Forsterian vantage point, the distinction between Marxism and liberalism was largely a disagreement about whether you can get as much, or more, wealth to redistribute by politicizing the ____________ and replacing the greedy Wilcoxes with government planners. It turned out that you cannot."

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Question 4

According to Appiah, American civilization "must have a certain coherence."

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According to Marx and Engels, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

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Question 6

In the reading, we find this passage: "Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the ..."

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Question 7

Green tells us that "We should therefore tackle the issue of feminism and the family from the top down. Rawls' theory of justice as fairness is represented by him as using the idea of pure procedural justice."

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Question 8

Explain what Hobbes means when he says, "it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war is of every man against every man." Do you agree with Hobbes? Explain your answer.

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Question 9

Mill says, "The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle; that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is ..."

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Question 10

Rorty tells us that, "I should like to produce a bracing conclusion to end these pessimistic reflections, but all I can offer is the suggestion that we Northern gentlefolk at least keep ourselves honest. We should remind ourselves, as Forster reminded us, that love is not enough."

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According to Dewey, "there are those who think the federal and state governments leave too much freedom of independent action to industrial and financial groups, and there are others who think the government is going altogether too far at the present time."

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Question 12

According to Dewey, "Belief in _________ is an element of the democratic credo."

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Question 13

Macaulay tells us that "Our parliaments ought to have been eminently distinguished for their integrity, and a total independence of any corrupt influence."

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Question 14

Explain what Marx and Engels mean when they say, "The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers. This union is helped on by the improved means of communication that are created by modern industry, and that places the workers of different localities in contact with one another. It was just this contact that was needed to centralize the numerous local struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle between classes. But every class struggle is a political struggle."

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Mill says, "Yet the people of any given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed. The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical influence of reason, which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first."

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Mill says, "The will of the people, moreover, practically means, the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the ..."

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Question 17

According to Marx and Engels, "The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital."

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Question 18

According to Dewey, "Where there is little power, there is correspondingly little sense of positive ______________. It is enough to do what one is told to do sufficiently well to escape flagrant unfavorable notice."

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Question 19

According to Wollstonecraft, "But that noble simplicity of affection, which dares to appear unadorned, has few attractions for the libertine, though it be the charm, which, by cementing the matrimonial tie, secures to the pledges of a warmer passion the necessary parental attention; for children will never be properly educated till friendship subsists between parents."

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In the reading, after the jury finds Socrates guilty, he is allowed to offer a proposal for his sentence. Socrates suggests ...

According to Locke, "it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with ..."

According to Appiah, American civilization "must have a certain coherence."

According to Marx and Engels, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Green tells us that "We should therefore tackle the issue of feminism and the family from the top down. Rawls' theory of justice as fairness is represented by him as using the idea of pure procedural justice."

Explain what Hobbes means when he says, "it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war is of every man against every man." Do you agree with Hobbes? Explain your answer.

Mill says, "The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle; that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is ..."

Rorty tells us that, "I should like to produce a bracing conclusion to end these pessimistic reflections, but all I can offer is the suggestion that we Northern gentlefolk at least keep ourselves honest. We should remind ourselves, as Forster reminded us, that love is not enough."

According to Dewey, "there are those who think the federal and state governments leave too much freedom of independent action to industrial and financial groups, and there are others who think the government is going altogether too far at the present time."

According to Dewey, "Belief in _________ is an element of the democratic credo."

Macaulay tells us that "Our parliaments ought to have been eminently distinguished for their integrity, and a total independence of any corrupt influence."

Mill says, "The will of the people, moreover, practically means, the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the ..."

According to Marx and Engels, "The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital."

According to Dewey, "Where there is little power, there is correspondingly little sense of positive ______________. It is enough to do what one is told to do sufficiently well to escape flagrant unfavorable notice."

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