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082
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In Plato’s Republic he talks about the ideas of Socrates.
Can you recall what the attitude of Socrates was towards Law and Order?
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083
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Could you name three great needs that Socrates (and Plato) said a society has?
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084
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What did Plato mean by “Guardians of the State”?
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085
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What view did Plato have about families?
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086
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There was one discipline in particular that Plato favoured. Do you recall what it was?
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087
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What did Plato say about artists?
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088
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What did St Augustine say about the City of God and the city of the world?
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089
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Did Augustine connect the city of God with Christ?
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090
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What was Machiavelli’s view of Christianity?
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091
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Do you know the name of the influential book that Machiavelli wrote?
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092
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Do you know anything of Calvin and Institutes of Christian Religion?
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093
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What did Rousseau say about the true Sovereign in a republic?
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094
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Did Hegel say that in a way God relies on creation?
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095
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In the latter part of last century a huge amount of poetry written by Karl Marx was found. What was the significance of this?
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096
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s book The Gulag Archipelago signalled the end of Marxism in Russia. Why?
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097
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Could you name some of the parallels between the Guardians of Plato’s Republic and Religious Orders of the last centuries?
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098
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Do you know anything about “Liberation Theology?”
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099
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What did liberation theologians criticise the church of the earlier C20th for?
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100
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It could be argued there are close parallels between Plato’s Republic
and the world of work? Can you think of one of them?
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101
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Aristotle set up arguably the first museum. Why would this be so?
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102
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How did Aristotle judge people as being good or bad citizens?
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103
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Did Aristotle view constitutions as providing a society with a “common purpose”?
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104
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What do you know of Thomas Aquinas (born towards the end of the Middle Ages)?
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105
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Did Aquinas believe people could use their reason to work out good and bad?
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106
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How did Aquinas work out people have the authority to make good laws?
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107
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Did Aquinas think the church could provide insights for the making of laws?
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108
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Did Locke (b.1632) share views similar to that of Aristotle and Aquinas?
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109
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Did Locke have an influential view about natural law?
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110
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Did Locke have an influence on the writing of modern constitutions?
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111
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How did Durkheim (arguably the first sociologist) view society?
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112
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Who was the early sociologist who showed the connection between religion and the capitalist work ethic?
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113
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What did Weber see as the basis of society?
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114
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Talcott Parsons (a controversial sociologist) saw Judaism and Greek society as both contributing to modern society. How?
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115
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At the time of the Catholic church’s Vatican 11 a writer who had been ostracised
was recalled to write for the council. Any ideas who this was?
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