Questions from the midterm Flashcards

1
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The Delphic principle is..

A

Know yourself

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2
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Telos means

A

End

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3
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Ethics, as discussed in class, in ancient Greece may be defined as:

A

The practice of freedom

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4
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What is NOT one parameter in ethics asw discussed by Michael Foacault?

A

Ethical domain

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5
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Know yourself in Ancient Greece meant

A

Know your limits

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6
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Aristotle discerned three forms of appeal. Which one is NOT one of them?

A

Ethics

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7
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The best for most people or the worst for the least people possible refers to the following concept:

A

Pragmatism

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8
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This is a concept that ranges from not merely such format and often directly coercive apparatuses of intervention as state administrations and their police but also the great variety of more informal incitements and incentives that ask or invite human actors to govern themselves.

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Governmentality

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9
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It refers to that stuff which demands attention and fashioning if a given actor is to realize himself or herself as the subject he or she would be

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Ethical substance

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10
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It refers to the manner in which a given actor evaluates and engages the criteria that determine what counts as living up to being a subject of one or another quality or kind. also, what the subject has access to or not in order to transform himself/herself

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Mode of subjectivation

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11
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It refers to the particular work that a given work has to perform on his/her ethical substance in order to become a subject of a certain quality or kind

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Askesis

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12
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It refers precisely to the subject that is the end of any given actors striving

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Telos

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13
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What is the general meaning of the word “Parrhesia”?

A

To say everything

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14
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If we appeal to someone by means of character or credibility we are using:

A

Ethos

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15
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This term refers to persuading someone by appealing to his/her emotions:

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Pathos

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16
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This term refers to convincing someone by means of reason:

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Logos

17
Q

What author famously theorized governmentality?

A

Michael Foucault

18
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What author famously theorized and explained the ethical domain?

A

Michael Foucault

19
Q

If you were part of the nobility (aristocracy) you would definitely have this form of capital that most people do not have

A

Institutionalized social capital

20
Q

If you inherit a piano and you know how to play the piano because you are also a musician, the piano is your…

A

Objectified cultural capital

21
Q

The use of reason that a person may make of it in a particular civil post or office with which he or she is entrusted refers to the following use of reason:

A

Private use of reason

22
Q

What does “technology”, as it is used in the material you have read, etymologically refer to?

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Techne, meaning “know-how”

23
Q

What technology permit us to use signs, meanings, symbols or signification?

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Technologies of sign systems

24
Q

What technologies permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and a way of being, so as t transform themselves?

A

Technologies of the self

25
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What technologies determines the conduct of individuals and submit them to certain ends or domination?

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Technologies of power