MID-TERM EXAM

March 5, 2008
This assignment counts for 20% of your final grade. The exam is identical to the quizzes, except for the fact that the questions are formatted in a way that their answers would require 500 words rather than 200 words. It contains 10 questions where 5 answer will count as regular answers and any other answer on the top of them will be counted for extra credit evaluation. The assignment due is Monday, March 17, 2008, in class.

1. Bring here the arguments about why freedom is dangerous if it is taken to far;
2. Based on Thiele’s interpretation of Plato and Aristotle, explain why statecraft and soulcraft must be practice together;
3. What’s the difference between Plato’s and Aristotle’s understanding of reason
4. Can we interpret the right to abortion (pro choice) as a negative liberty? Why?
5. Can we interpret gay pride parades as positive liberty? Why?
6. Why economic rationality is parsimonious?
7. How can we escape THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS?
8. Why does Napoleon’s negative connotation of ideology still persist?
9. Do you buy the argument of the end-of-ideology in the contemporary developed capitalist societies? Why?
10. Do you buy Marx’s and Mannheim’s claims that ideologies of the ruling class are always the epoch’s ruling ideas?

GOOD LUCK!