Exam 8: Plato Apology

In the reading, Socrates says, "I went to the poets; I am almost ashamed to speak of this, but still I must say that there is hardly a person present who would not have talked better about their poetry than they did themselves. That showed me in an instant that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them." Do you agree with Socrates judgment of the poets?

Rorty tells us that, "If there is a happy solution to the dilemma created by the need of very poor Brazilians to find work and the need of the rest of us for the oxygen produced by the Amazonian rain forest, it is going to result of some as yet unimagined bureaucratic-technological initiative, not of a revolution in values. The slow crabwise movement is not going to speed up thanks to a change in philosophical outlook."

According to Marx and Engels, the workers in a society are called the ...

Explain what Green means when she says, "Parity follows from a conception of procedural justice, for it provides a mechanism which guarantees that the interests of both sexes are fairly represented in the legislature."

Macaulay tells us that "If the French people therefore should be so capricious as to fling off their new constitution, and subject themselves to more unequal forms of government, or even to tyranny, it will be agreeable to the course of past experience. But such an exertion of power cannot injure their right; and whatever form or complexion any future government in France may bear, it can have no legitimate source, but in the strength of the economy."

According to Dewey, "In the broad and final sense, all institutions are ____________, in the sense that they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality."

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

According to Marx and Engels, "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."

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

Explain what Socrates means when he 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 men." Do you agree with Socrates? Explain your answer.

According to Wollstonecraft, "Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but to prove them to be the natural consequence of their education and station in society."

According to Mill, "What was now wanted was, that the rulers should be identified with the people; that their interest and will should be the interest and will of the nation. The nation did not need to be protected against its own will. There was no fear of its tyrannizing over itself."

According to Locke, "Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to be the standard of right and wrong, and the common measure to decide all controversies between them." Do you agree with Locke? Explain your answer.

In the reading, Socrates discusses whether his escape from prison would be successful.

In the reading, Socrates says, "What can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god and cannot lie; that would be against his nature. After a long consideration, I at last thought of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might go to the god with a refutation in my hand."

According to Appiah, "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 __________________________. 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."

According to Dewey, "Absence of _______________ tends to produce lack of interest and concern on the part of those shut out. The result is a corresponding lack of effective responsibility."

Green says, "Suppose that, despite the considerable socio-biological evidence to the contrary, there are no natural or basic differences of interest between the sexes, but that the differences that appear are only the result of an unjustly imposed gender system."

Rorty tells us that, "If there is a happy solution to the dilemma created by the need of very poor Brazilians to find work and the need of the rest of us for the oxygen produced by the Amazonian rain forest, it is going to result of some as yet unimagined bureaucratic-technological initiative, not of a revolution in _________. The slow crabwise movement is not going to speed up thanks to a change in philosophical outlook."

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.