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| What is the principle of subjectivity? |
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| An awareness of the self. |
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| What the self-conscious, deliberate search for rational and moral order? |
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| What is NOT an essential characteristic of tribal societies? |
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| An awareness of the individual self. |
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| What is NOT an essential characteristic of individuated societies? |
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| Ethnocentricity (the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture) |
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| What are the essential characteristics of the modern state? |
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- Government
- Common Culture
- Sovereignty
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| What are the characteristics of a modern nation? |
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- Ethnic similarity
- Religious similarity
- Language similarity
- Cultural consciousness
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| What are the weakness es of tribal societies? |
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| What are the weaknesses of individuated societies? |
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| What is true about the theater of Dionysus? |
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| When the furies comment to Athens that the Avery child of vanity is violence, to what are they referring? |
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| What functions did the tragedies perform for ancient Greek society? |
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| What is NOT an accurate reflection of the role of Greek tragedy in Greek society? |
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| Greek tragedy was essentially private in character, performed before aristocratic elites. |
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| What did Aeschylus bring to the writing of tragic drama? |
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| My fate is angry if I disobey these but angry if I slaughter this child... Who am I? |
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| Yet look upon this dead man; you would not cross him once when with no thought more than as if a beast had died, when his ranged pastures... Who am I? |
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| Yours to bear witness now, Apollo, and expound the case for me, if I was right to cut her down... Who am I? |
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| For we are strong and skilled; we have authority; we hold memory of evil. Who am I? |
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| If justice is to be achieved in the Oresteia, what must occur? |
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- The psyche of Orestes must be restored to health
- Fear and guilt must have their proper role in the kingdom
- The kingdom must be governed by its rightful ruler
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| What is the term used to explain the reasons for suffering in the midst of divine justice? |
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| Which of the following are intimations of democracy in the Oresteia? |
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| The Aeropagus (Areopagus) or citizen jury chosen to judge the guilt of Orestes and Athena's use of persuasion to convince the Furies of their rightful place in the new order. |
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| Athena, in her actions and speech, insists that reason must have a rightful role in the new order. What are the components of that reason? |
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- Persuasion
- Proportionality
- Justice
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| The final conclusions, or lessons to be learned from the Oresteia, include which of the following? |
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| The branch of metaphysics which concerns itself with the nature of being is called: |
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| Which is an accurate reflection of Democritus’s response to the question: Is there anything permanent in the universe? |
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| Yes, there is, and it is the realm of matter. |
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| Which of the following is an accurate reflection of Plato’s response to the question: Is there anything permanent in the universe? |
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| Yes, there is; and it is the realm of ideas or forms. |
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| Which of the following is an accurate reflection of Aristotle’s response to the questions: Is there anything permanent in the universe? |
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| Yes, there is, and it is found in the unity of form and substance, or potentiality. |
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| An epistemology that depends on sensate perception of the world is called: |
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| Empiricism (the claim that all knowledge or all meaningful discourse about the world is related to sensory experience or observation.) |
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| Which of the following is NOT a component of Marx’s notion of the infrastructure? |
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| The laws and politics of a society. |
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| In Plato’s theory of education, eros plays a fundamental role. What is that role? |
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| Eros is a yearning to know that our psyche has forgotten when it entered the body. |
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| Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. This is a statement of what? |
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| Kant’s categorical imperative. |
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| Which of the following is NOT an ingredient of Aristotle’s conception of happiness? |
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| Homo phenomenon, or the human as creature. |
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| According to Kant, the fact that we human beings are homo noumenon (or noumena) makes us distinctive. What does it mean to be the homo noumenon? |
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| It means that we are moral creatures, capable of discerning moral rules. |
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| Which of the following are the political implications Kant’s idealism? |
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| Which of the following best characterizes Nietzsche’s answer to the question of change and permanence in nature? |
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| The universe is essentially comprised of undifferentiated chaos. |
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| Which of the following best characterizes Nietzsche’s theory of perspectivism? |
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| There are no truths, only points of view. |
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| The hermeneutic of suspicion, so often associated with the postmodern perspective, entails which of the following? |
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- Acts of deconstruction, especially deconstruction of metanarratives
- a rejection of binary opposites; often an inversion of binary opposites
- and an unmasking of truth claims, by identifying the hierarchy of domination behind them
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| According to the postmodern perspective, a metanarrative is which of the following? |
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| The political implications of postmodern thought include which of the following? |
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| According to Aristotle, politics (or political science): |
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- Is not a proper subject of study of the young
- aims at the happiness of human beings
- aims at the highest good for human beings
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| According to Aristotle, the good that politics seeks must be which of the following? |
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- self-sufficient
- practicable or attainable
- it must be social
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| Every complex political philosophy has a philosophical anthropology and Aristotle is no exception. His view of human nature includes which of the following? |
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| Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement of Aristotle’s views on intellectual and moral virtues? |
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| Moral virtues are taught. |
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| The internal matters (internal particularity) of virtuous action that Aristotle delineates include which of the following? |
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- The agent must know what he/she is doing
- The agent must choose the action
- The agent must choose the action for its own sake
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| Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean is best characterized in which of the following statements: |
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- Avoid excess
- Avoid deficiency
- Examine the context of decisions and strive for moderation and proportionality
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| According to Aristotle, a constitution in which the many rule in the interests of all is a: |
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| According to Aristotle, the notion of distributive justice involves which of the following? |
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- A concern for how society allocates its resources
- A choice of what values to emphasize when deciding who gets what, when, and how
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| Aristotle’s notion of sophrosyne involves which of the following? |
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| The classic Aristotlean mixed constitution includes which of the following? |
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| Balancing the interests of social classes within the power structure of the state and allowing a substantial numbers of citizens to participate in governance, but limit their access to certain offices of government. |
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| Which of the following is an accurate characterization of Aristotle’s views on political economy? |
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- People will tend to seek their own class advantage at the expense of the public good
- A key to economic and political stability is the existence of a large, stable middle class
- In order to understand a constitution, we should examine the distribution of property in that constitution
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| Aristotle’s form of ethics, in which one asks, what kind of person should I be, is accurately referred to as which of the following? |
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