01:790:101 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Plato, Aristotle, Socrates
01:790:101
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Recitation #2
September 26th, 2018
The Apology, The Allegory of the Cave, Politics
● Quote identification: Go to office hours
● Midterm prep
○ Identify important quotes -- you’ll be given 12 about
■ Quotes from slides
○ 1-2 short answers about concepts/key themes
● Take Home portion: 2 short essays of 3-4 pages
○ You will be given 3 essay questions and answer 2 of them
● Apology
○ Socrates considered the world’s first philosopher
○ Mode of philosophy-- interacting with others
○ His teachings written down by his students
● Allegory of the Cave
○ Plato, student of Socrates
○ Plato had founded Academy
○ City in Speech -- thought experiment
○ The Cave
■ Enlightenment is painful
■ Only the philosopher has the experience of being the cave & leaving it
■ In one possible outcome, the ave-dwellers killed the philosopher
■ The philosopher examination of life is what brings about the tools we need
to rull. But on the other hand you can’t be both a ruler and
● Politics
○ Aristotle
○ Man is a political animal
○ Naturalness of slavery
○ Citizenship
○ Political Rule
○ Correct regimes and deviations
○ Empiricism- the study of what is actually there
■ Politically it i s to draw data from what is present → collected
constitutions and connecting/ correcting each constitution
○ Telos- human flourishing
○ Logos- speech/reason
○ Processes that are mutually reinforcing
● Politics Book 3 Chapter 1
○ Citizenship
■ Partaking in decision of office (+)
■ Residences (-)
● Slaves
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Recitation #2
September 26th, 2018
■ Negative, abstract
■ Process, start of citizenship
■ politician , not citizens
■ City thrives = goal of humanity
○ Book 3, Chapter 4 (1276b-1277a)
■ Community
■ Citizens help the city thrive
■ ‘Good man’ and citizen are not the same thing
○ Book 3, Chapter 5 (1278a-1278b)
■ Only the rich can be citizens → no worker, laborer, or slave is to be a
citizen
○ How do aristotle’s definition of citizenship relate to the types of regimes he
identifies ? How does concept inform practice?
■ Citizens influence city but city influences regime and regime influences
citizens
○ Order → laws ←→ Justice
○ Power → military administrative
● Democracy (pamela paxton)
○ Universal suffrage
○ Rule of law/Judicial
○ civil/political liberties
● Authority→ law (1286a/ 1282a)
● Instill virtue through people’s education
● Community- justice- equality
○ “...For we assert that justice is a virtue characteristic of communities, and that all
the other virtues necessarily follow on it.”
● Virtue
○ 1286b/ 1287b
○ Telos→ does the idea of human flourishing bring to mind anything more
recent?
■ Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
● Politics → rights--obligation → a balance between them is needed or then it is
creating incomplete citizens
● Access to political understanding and rights are a basic necessity for the goal of humanity
● Power is emphasized throughout → aristotle
● Politics → public/ private
● 1295b
● 1297a
○ Chapter 14- 2 parts of regimes
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Document Summary
The apology, the allegory of the cave, politics. Identify important quotes -- you"ll be given 12 about. Take home portion: 2 short essays of 3-4 pages. You will be given 3 essay questions and answer 2 of them. His teachings written down by his students. Only the philosopher has the experience of being the cave & leaving it. In one possible outcome, the ave-dwellers killed the philosopher. The philosopher examination of life is what brings about the tools we need to rull. But on the other hand you can"t be both a ruler and. Empiricism- the study of what is actually there. Politically it i s to draw data from what is present collected constitutions and connecting/ correcting each constitution. Good man" and citizen are not the same thing. Only the rich can be citizens no worker, laborer, or slave is to be a citizen. Citizens influence city but city influences regime and regime influences citizens.