Question 1

According to Dewey, "The development of political democracy came about through substitution of the method of mutual consultation and voluntary agreement for the method of subordination of the many to the few enforced from above. Social arrangements which involve fixed subordination are maintained by free elections."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to Marx and Engels, those who own the means of production are called the proletariat.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

According to Hobbes, "Justice and injustice are none of the faculties either of the body, nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses and passions. They are qualities that relate to men in ..."

Accepted Answer

A)  the abstract, not in the concrete. 
B)  society, not in solitude. 
C)  an advanced state of evolution. 
D)  relation to their religious beliefs.

Question 5

According to Wollstonecraft, "Asserting the _______ 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."

Accepted Answer

A)  power 
B)  money 
C)  rights 
D)  control

Question 6

According to Wollstonecraft, "and what they say of man I extend to mankind, insisting, that in all cases morals must be fixed on immutable principles; and that the being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority but that of ..."

Accepted Answer

A)  God. 
B)  government. 
C)  custom. 
D)  reason.

Question 7

In the reading, Crito worries that many people "will believe that I might have saved you if I had been willing to give money, but that I did not care. Now, can there be a worse disgrace than this-that I should be thought to value money more than the life of a friend?" To which Socrates responds, ...

Accepted Answer

A)  "The will of the people should always be respected, Crito." 
B)  "But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?" 
C)  "Ask as many people as you can to contribute to the escape fund." 
D)  "Dear Crito, rouse the people to petition the government for my pardon."

Question 8

According to Marx and Engels, "the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. Into their place stepped ________________, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted in it, and the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class."

Accepted Answer

A)  agrarian classes 
B)  economic stasis 
C)  free competition 
D)  political instability

Question 9

Locke says, "The inconveniencies that they are therein exposed to by the irregular and uncertain exercise of the power every man has of punishing the transgressions of others, make them take sanctuary under the established laws of government, and therein seek the preservation of their property. It is this that makes them so willingly give up every one his single power of punishing to be exercised by such alone as shall be appointed to it amongst them, and by such rules as the community, or those authorized by them to that purpose, shall agree on. And in this we have the original right and rise of both the ____________ and ___________ power as well as of the governments and societies themselves."

Accepted Answer

A)  normative; prescriptive 
B)  legislative; executive 
C)  scientific; logical 
D)  metaphysical; epistemological

Question 10

According to Wollstonecraft, "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."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Explain what Mill means when he 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." Do you agree with Mill?

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

According to Locke, "Secondly, in the state of Nature there wants a known and indifferent judge, with authority to determine all differences according to the established law." Do you agree with Locke? Explain your answer.

Accepted Answer

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Exam 8: Plato Apology

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

According to Marx and Engels, those who own the means of production are called the proletariat.

According to Hobbes, "Justice and injustice are none of the faculties either of the body, nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses and passions. They are qualities that relate to men in ..."

According to Wollstonecraft, "Asserting the _______ 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 Wollstonecraft, "and what they say of man I extend to mankind, insisting, that in all cases morals must be fixed on immutable principles; and that the being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority but that of ..."

According to Wollstonecraft, "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."

According to Locke, "Secondly, in the state of Nature there wants a known and indifferent judge, with authority to determine all differences according to the established law." Do you agree with Locke? Explain your answer.