All things Socrates
Why can rulers lie in cases involving enemies or citizens?
to benefit the city
Rousseau's pupil is named what?
Emile
In Meno, Socrates teaches a slave a geometry lesson using only questions as a way to demonstrate this idea, believing that the boy "recovered the knowledge by himself, from within himself".
Jenifer Frey visited Yale University to speak at its most popular class focused on what subject? Happiness and the _____ Life
Happiness and The Good Life
Thrasymachus asserts that "the just man everywhere has less than the unjust man". Does Socrates agree?
No
Socrates was sentenced to death by the jury for what two things?
Impiety - believing there are no gods
Corrupting the youth
Rousseau believes that no pupil should receive "any kind of verbal lessons; he ought to receive them only from" what?
Experience
In Meno, Socrates uses this metaphor to show that he simply numbs other people by virtue of being numb himself... "its not that I make other people stuck while being clear myself; no, I make other people stuck by virtue of the fact that I am stuck myself".
Torpedo Fish (Sting Ray)
True or False: Agens Callard believes that the value of the humanities and philosophy is happiness?
What does she believe the value is?
False
She doesn't know!
"The just man is like the wise and good, but the unjust man like the bad and unlearned".
Socrates
Socrates uses a metaphor of what in The Apology to explain that he is "attached by the god to the city, as if to a horse - a big and noble horse, but one that's rather sleepy because of its size, all the time needing to be woke up by some sort of _____"
Gadfly
"Plants are shaped by cultivation, and men by ______"
Education
In The Pursuit of Wisdom and Happiness in Education, Stan Steel references this meta-technical activity that has been referred to as a "power at one remove", serving as a brake or control against the the abuse of power.
Reflection
In Taking Humanity Seriously, Frey references Marilynne Robinson who reminds us that people have managed to love being what "through plague and famine and siege"?
Human
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion".
Thomas Jefferson
Soul
Rousseau said that Plato's Republic is "not at all a political work, as think those who judge books only by their titles. It is the most beautiful ________ treatise ever written".
Educational
Tyack and Cuban "express a cautious optimism about improving American public schools. [They] do not expect some magical Phoenix to arise from the ashes of the current system", nor do they believe "that the system is in ashes". Their sentiments reflect a _______ toward _______.
Tinkering - Utopia
Socrates reasons that his citizens in the republic are happy, how?
Knowledge, Virtue, No Faction, Community, A Philosopher King who justly rules. etc.
"A young thing can't judge what is hidden sense and what is not; but what he takes into his opinions at that age has a tendency to become hard to eradicate and unchangeable".
Socrates
What is the Myth of the Metals and what does it explain?
"the god in fashioning those of you who are competent to rule, mixed gold in at their birth; this is why they are most honored; in auxiliaries, silver; and in iron and bronze in the farmers and the other craftsmen". For example, when children are born of gold parents but have iron blood, they must not be selected to rule - essentially controlling for nepotism based on virtue and character.
Rousseau claimes that "a father, when engenders and feeds children, does with that only a third of his task. He owes to his species men; he owes to society sociable men" and he owes what to the state?
Citizens
Rousseau believes that the judgements we make on the basis of happiness or perfection, given to us by reason are "constrained by our habits and are more or less corrupted by our opinions". What is it that's corrupted?
Our nature
Rousseau claims that "whoever does what he wants is happy if he is ________; this is the case of the man living in the state of nature. Whoever does what he wants is not happy if his needs surpass his strength; this is the case of the child in the same state. Children, even in the state of nature, enjoy only an imperfect freedom, similar to that enjoyed by men in the civil state".
Self-sufficient
It is their America, and the America of all of us, that is at risk; it is to each of us that this imperative is addressed. It is by our willingness to take up the challenge, and our resolve to see it through, that America's place in the world will be either secured or forfeited. Americans have succeeded before and so we shall again.
The Reagan Administration, A Nation at Risk