It's All Greek to Me
The man who tried to convince Socrates that, because Athenian law was unjust, he should break out of prison and flee.
Who is Crito?
Thomas Aquinas' metaphor for an ideal king on earth.
What is a good shepherd?
"Whatever this thing is in virtue of which human beings are superior to animals... if it rules and controls the other things that constitute a human being, then that human being is perfectly ordered."
Who is Augustine?
The two Christian philosophers who argued that monarchy was the most natural form of government.
Who are Christine de Pizan and Thomas Aquinas?
The man who wrote a how-to manual in the hopes of getting a job in court.
Who was Machiavelli?
The two types of "rule by the many," according to Aristotle.
What are democracy and timocracy (or Polity)?
The philosopher who argued that political society was best described as an actual human body.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
"...being virtuous is nothing more than having in oneself all the things that attract good and turn away evil and vice. For the body politic to function properly, therefore, it is necessary that the head be healthy..."
Who is Christine de Pizan?
The system Athenians used, and were most proud of, to organize their democracy.
What is a lottery system?
A playwright and renaissance man who was killed by a dog in the streets of Paris.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The danger that Socrates saw in Euthyphro's argument that he alone understood justice.
What is relativism?
The vicious but effective fall guy, whose execution Machiavelli praised for tactical reasons.
Who is Ramiro d'Orco?
"I, men of Athens, salute you and love you, but I will obey the god rather than you..."
Who is Plato (Apology)?
What the Israelites demanded from God to be like other nations around them.
What is a monarchy?
The Dominican Friar who took his holy orders after his parents locked him in a room with a prostitute to deter him.
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
The woman who proclaimed Socrates the wisest of all the Greeks (because he knew that he knew nothing, Socrates concluded).
Who was the Oracle at Delphi?
The things that King David did to atone for his sins after forcing himself on Bathsheba and killing Uriah.
What are acts of repentance?
"...above all a prince should contrive to give himself the fame of a great man and of an excellent talent in every action of his."
Who is Machiavelli?
The philosopher who thought the ideal democracy was pure, where people could change anything, but where people did not want to change anything.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
An Olympic gold-medalist who was very fond of writing.
Who was Plato?
The one who showed the ancient Greeks that political communities were like families based on the way that he lived and ruled.
Who was Zeus?
The two animals Machiavelli suggested that a prince should most closely try to emulate.
What are the fox and the lion?
"Political power then I take to be a Right of making Laws with penalties of death..."
Who is John Locke?
Natural rights, willpower, and an intentionally created personality were essential to this critical activity, according to John Locke.
What is consent?
A party-boy who loved gambling, petty theft, and blood-sport until his conversion.
Who was Augustine?