Hebrew Headscratchers
God appeared to him as a burning bush.
Who is Moses?
What is the name of Jesus' father?
Who is Joseph?
According to Aristotle, everyone does every action for the sake of this.
What is happiness?
The main character of Plato's dialogues is this unfortunate looking lover of wisdom.
Who is Socrates?
Father Himes argues that the least wrong way to understand God is as this.
What is agape?
He killed his brother and then asked, Am I my brother's keeper?
Who is Cain?
Who are the Sadduccees?
According to Aristotle, most people identify happiness with this.
What is pleasure?
This is Thrasymachus's definition of justice.
What is "the advantage of the stronger?"
In Kozol's Amazing Grace, this young man cares for his mother, who has AIDS and cancer.
Who is David Washington?
This is the Hebrew word that is the origin of social justice.
What is tzedakah?
What is Bethlehem?
This is the intellectual virtue that pertains to the moral virtues.
What is practical wisdom or prudence?
Thrasymachus was one of these teachers of rhetoric who opposed Socrates' worldview.
Who are the Sophists?
In Amazing Grace, Anthony adores reading this 19th century American author of macabre stories.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Sacks regards the tower of Babel as a failure of this kind of responsibility. (One word)
What is ontological?
The prelate Pilate suggested that the Jews free Jesus, but the Jewish people wanted this bandit to be freed at the Passover festival. (Full name, two words)
Who is Jesus Barabas?
This is the Greek word that is translated as happiness in the Nicomachean ethics.
What is eudaimonia?
This old man defines justice as telling truths and paying one's debts.
Who is Cephalus?
These are the three Greek words for the three kinds of love we have discussed in this class.
What are eros, philia, and agape?
This is the name of Abraham's nephew, who traveled with him out of Egypt.
Who is lot?
There are four creatures that symbolize the four Gospel writers. What is the symbol for Luke?
What is an ox?
This vice is the deficiency regarding the virtue of magnanimity.
What is pusillanimity ("small-souledness")?
In the noble lie, this substance is found in the auxilliary guardians' souls only.
What is silver?
Which book of the Bible contains eponymous writings?
What is Genesis?