Exam 8: Plato Apology

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 elites."

Explain what Dewey means when he says, "Absence of participation tends to produce lack of interest and concern on the part of those shut out. The result is a corresponding lack of effective responsibility."

In the reading, a friend of Socrates asked the elders of Athens to tell him whether there was anyone wiser than Socrates.

According to Green, "Perhaps the most practical and least radical reform would be simply to mandate that parties endorse ..."

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 life which is unexamined is not worth living." Do you agree with Socrates?

According to Appiah, "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."

Locke ask, "If man in the state of Nature be so free, if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest and subject to nobody, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?" Locke's answer is ...

Rorty tells us that, "There are relatively plausible scenarios for the working out of bottom-up initiatives, scenarios which end with the life chances of the Northerners roughly levelled out."

Mill explores the "the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual," which he calls "Social Liberty."

In the reading, Socrates says, "For I am and always have been one of those natures who must be guided by ..."

Aristotle says, "A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all." Explain what Aristotle means by "a social instinct." Do you agree with Aristotle? Explain your answer.

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 _______, which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first."

Explain what Mill means when he says, "This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty. It comprises, first, the inward domain of consciousness; demanding liberty of conscience, in the most comprehensive sense; liberty of thought and feeling; absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral, or theological." Do you agree with Mill?

According to Hobbes, "The mutual transferring of right is that which men call _________. There is a difference between transferring of the right to the thing, and transferring of the thing itself. The thing may be delivered together with the translation of the right, as in buying and selling with money, or exchange of goods or lands, and it may be delivered some time after."

According to Green, "the way to guarantee that the laws actually passed will take into account the differences in interest between the sexes is not to mandate equality in all things (androgyny) but rather to mandate equal time limits in parliament and other elected legislative bodies (parity)."

According to Hobbes, "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."

In this reading, Crito urges Socrates to ...

According to Hobbes, "By ________ is understood the absence of external impediments; impediments which may often take away part of a man's power to do what he would, but cannot hinder him from using the power left him, according as his judgement and reason shall dictate to him."

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 electorate and replacing the greedy Wilcoxes with government planners. It turned out that you cannot."

Explain what Wollstonecraft means when she says, "From the tyranny of man, I firmly believe, the greater number of female follies proceed; and the cunning, which I allow, makes at present a part of their character, I likewise have repeatedly endeavored to prove, is produced by oppression."