Ethics, Values, and Black Experience
Homework 1
Please answer two of the four following question. Each question worth 2 points and should be answered in one or two short paragraphs.
1. What is it that differentiates according to Plato, "a just" person from " an unjust person"? What does it mean to say that "the just" person is free?
2. Aristotle tells us that "the just and temperate person is not the one who (merely) does these actions, but the one why... does them in the way in which just and temperate people do them". Please explain what this means?
3. Please state concisely the core views of Augustine and Russell. Are they similar or different?
4. What is the central differences in the perspective of Lucretius and Epictetus? Please state concisely what this difference is and what way it conditions the advice they give us regarding proper conduct in life?