Listing for First Exam

Question 1

List four important factors of the ancient political context

Answer 1

environment
access to learning
social/political heirarchy
cosmology, religion, philosophy

Question 2

Name five themes of Western Political Thought

Answer 2

western political canon and the Margins
distribution and use of power
articulate and inarticulate power
social contract, concept of populi
Idealist vs. realist

Question 3

List four types of government and their definition from Plato

Answer 3

timocracy- military government (spirit)
oligarchy- rule by the wealty (wealth)
democracy- poor conquer rich, unrestrained freedom
tyranny- protector of people, one man beast

Question 4

Name the six types of states in Aristotle, which are good and bad?

Answer 4

Good: kingship, aristocracy, polity
Bad: tyranny, oligarchy, democracy

Question 5

List four philosophers prior to Socrates and one idea of each

Answer 5

Thales of Miletus- practical knowledge and knowledge for its own sake
Anaximander- air+fire cylindrical earth
Democritus- atomic theory
Anaximenes- infinite principle of aer, everything is air

Question 6

List the classes in Plato’s Republic and their corresponding virtues

Answer 6

guardians-wisdom
auxiliaries- courage
producers- temperance

Question 7

List five political innovations of the Greek polei

Answer 7

sortition
democracy
bicameralism
checks on power
ostracism

Question 8

Name and give an example of three environmental political concerns

Answer 8

food supply- Great Famine of 1315
water supply- Mesopotamia
friction of distance- transcontinental railroad

Question 9

Name the four elements and the four humors

Answer 9

earth, air, fire, water

phlegm, blood, bile, black bile

Question 10

List four political themes in Herodotus

Answer 10

folly of empire building
values of freedom, justice and moderation over luxury
triumph of free people (Greece) over slaves (Persia)
disunity of the Greeks

Question 11

List seven logical fallacies and define them

Answer 11

ad hominen- personal attack
red herring-distractions
post hoc propter hoc- after something because of it
non sequitur- leap in logic, skip steps
circular logic- oversimplification, leave out facts
reductio ad absurdum- reduce the argument and take it to an absurd conclusion to negate their argument
either or fallacy

Question 12

Name six works of Aristotle

Answer 12

Poetics, Rhetoric, De anima, Politics, Nichomachean Ethics, Eudamian Ethics

Question 13

Name the 10 categories of existence according to Aristotle

Answer 13

substance, quantity, quality, relation, space, time, situation, condition, action, passion

Question 14

List the seven sages

Answer 14

Thales of Miletus
Bias of Priene
Cleobolus from Lindus
Pittacus of Mytilene
Solon from Athens
Chilon from Sparta
Periander of Corinth