Exam 8: Plato Apology

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

Macaulay tells us that "I know of no rational objection; nor can I think of any expedient to remove the well grounded apprehensions of the different interests which compose a commonwealth, than a fair and equal representation of the whole people, a circumstance which appears very peculiarly necessary in a mixed form of government, where the democratic part of the constitution will ever be in danger of being overborne by the energy attending on its higher constituent parts."

Aristotle says, "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 village." Do you agree with Aristotle? Explain your answer.

Locke says, "This makes him willing to quit this condition which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers; and it is not without reason that he seeks out and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name property." Do you agree with Locke? Explain your answer.

According to Green, "if the procedure which determines the laws which govern women is one from which women are excluded, or in which they are only marginally represented, those laws cannot be judged, by any reliable criterion, to be in women's interests."

According to Hobbes, "The mutual transferring of right is that which men call absolution. 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 Locke, "Secondly, in the state of Nature there wants a known and indifferent ______, with authority to determine all differences according to the established law."

According to Wollstonecraft, "Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the ________ of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty."

Explain what Appiah means when he says, "The move from 'civilization' to 'culture' was the result of arguments. The move away from evaluation came first, once people recognized that much evaluation of other cultures by the Europeans and Americans who invented anthropology had been both ignorant and biased."

Macaulay tells us that "On such grounds of reasoning, there will be found no insuperable objections to those propositions of Dr. Price, which are so highly censured by Mr. Burke, as containing principles of the most seditious and dangerous nature; even though we should allow that every government which accords with the opinions and the inclinations of the large majority of the people, is, in an high sense of the term, a ..."

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 ..."

Macaulay tells us that "On such grounds of reasoning, there will be found no insuperable objections to those propositions of Dr. Price, which are so highly censured by Mr. Burke, as containing principles of the most seditious and dangerous nature; even though we should allow that every government which accords with the opinions and the inclinations of the large majority of the people, is, in an high sense of the term, a factional state."

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 ..."

Green tells us that "The liberal feminist ought to adopt the principle of _______, that is, guaranteed equal representation of both sexes in parliament, rather than the requirement of androgyny."

In the reading, Socrates says that if he stays and accepts his punishment, then he dies "in innocence, a sufferer and not a doer of evil; a victim, not of the laws, but of a corrupt system."

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

In the reading, Socrates says, "When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and wiser still by himself; and I went and tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is-for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows but others will still think him wise."

Explain what Rorty means when he says, "The cash value of the Christian ideal of universal brotherhood has, for the last two centuries, been the conviction that once science and technology have produced enough wealth-and enlightened, unselfish political initiatives have redistributed it-there will be no one left who is incapable of tenderness."

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 the enjoyment of freedom in the state of nature is very uncertain.

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