Exam 8: Plato Apology

Rorty tells us that, "Forster's hope that eventually there will be enough money to go around, enough so that its _______________ will make connection and tenderness ubiquitous, runs through liberal thought from the French Revolution to our own time."

According to Hobbes, "When the transferring of right is not mutual, but one of the parties transfers in hope to gain friendship or service from another, or from his friends, or in hope to gain the reputation of charity or magnanimity, or to deliver his mind from the pain of compassion, or in hope of reward in heaven," then this is called a gift.

In the reading, after the jury finds Socrates guilty, he is allowed to offer a proposal for his sentence. Socrates suggests that he should be subject to house arrest.

Explain what Rorty means when he says, "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 marketplace and replacing the greedy Wilcoxes with government planners. It turned out that you cannot."

Mill says, "Wherever there is an ________________, a large portion of the morality of the country emanates from its class interests, and its feelings of class superiority."

According to Appiah, "When we teach children democratic habits through practice in public schools, what we are creating is a shared commitment to certain forms of social behavior."

In this reading, Crito urges Socrates to ask for a new trial.

In the reading, we find this passage: "Socrates, this time we will not mind Anytus, and will let you off, but upon one condition, that you are not to inquire and speculate in this way any more, and that if you are caught doing this again you shall die; if this was the condition on which you let me go, I should reply: Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy."

Green tells us that "Unlike androgyny, parity does not automatically result in an outright conflict between feminism and liberalism's commitment to a sphere of ..."

According to Aristotle, "When several families are united, and the association aims at something more than the supply of daily needs, the first society to be formed is the ..."

According to Aristotle, "When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficient, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."

Mill says, "There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism."

According to Marx and Engels, "The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. They have nothing of their own to secure and to fortify; their mission is to destroy all previous securities for, and insurances of, individual property."

Rorty tells us that, "Forster's hope that eventually there will be enough money to go around, enough so that its redistribution will make connection and tenderness ubiquitous, runs through liberal thought from the French Revolution to our own time."

According to Dewey, "The foundation of democracy is faith in the capacities of human nature; faith in human intelligence and in the power of pooled and ..."

According to Hobbes, "A _______________ is a precept or general rule found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinks it may be best preserved."

In the reading, Socrates claims that by living in Athens his entire life, he has entered into an unfair agreement that he will obey the laws.

According to Wollstonecraft, "And may I not lay some stress on this fact to prove, that when any power but _______ curbs the free spirit of man, dissimulation is practiced, and the various shifts of art are naturally called forth?"

According to Hobbes, "By liberty 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."

Explain what Appiah means when he says, "I have insisted that we should distinguish between cultures and identities, but ethnic identities are distinctive in having cultural distinctions as one of their primary marks. Ethnic identities are created in family and community life. These, along with mass-mediated culture, the school, and the college, are, for most of us, the central sites of the social transmission of culture."