Questions from the midterm

Question 1

The Delphic principle is..

Answer 1

Know yourself

Question 2

Telos means

Answer 2

End

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The practice of freedom

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Ethical domain

Question 5

Know yourself in Ancient Greece meant

Answer 5

Know your limits

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Ethics

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Pragmatism

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Governmentality

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Ethical substance

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Mode of subjectivation

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Askesis

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Telos

Question 13

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

Answer 13

To say everything

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Ethos

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Pathos

Question 16

This term refers to convincing someone by means of reason:

Answer 16

Logos

Question 17

What author famously theorized governmentality?

Answer 17

Michael Foucault

Question 18

What author famously theorized and explained the ethical domain?

Answer 18

Michael Foucault

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Institutionalized social capital

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Objectified cultural capital

Question 21

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:

Answer 21

Private use of reason

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Techne, meaning “know-how”

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Technologies of sign systems

Question 24

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?

Answer 24

Technologies of the self

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Technologies of power