Question 1. Why does Socrates refuse to be the one who provides answers in the dialogue (39)? What is Socrates' purpose in being the only questioner?
Question 2. What is it that Glaucon wants Socrates to do (52)?
Question 3. How is the speech of Adeimantus meant to supplement that of Glaucon (55)?
Question 4. What reason doe Socrates give for the need for a military in the luxurious city (63)?
Question 5. Why does Aristotle say that man is a political animal (167L-R)?
Question 6. How does Aristotle distinguish production (poesis) from action (praxis) 169L)?
Question 7. How does Aristotle distinguish the city from a military alliance (175L)?
Question 8. What two virtues does Aristotle claim that people in an "excessively unified" (in this instance meaning no private property) city are unable to display and why (179L)?
Question 9. What is Hobbes' purpose in describing the state as an artificial person (312L)?
Question 10. Explain Hobbes' remark that the "value or worth of a man is his price (316L)."
Question 11. Why does Hobbes believe that "felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another" (315L)?
Question 12. What does Hobbes identify as the three causes of conflict among people (320L)?
Question 13. How does Hobbes understand war (320R)?
Question 14. What is the only condition under which Hobbes believes that men will enjoy each others' company, and why (320L)?
Question 15. What is amour-propre and what produces it (432)?
Question 16. Why does Rousseau believe that the strong would not oppress the weak in a state of nature (427R-428L?
Question 17. What stage of society introduced the "first step towards inequality, and at the same time towards vice" (431R-432L)?
Question 18. What does Rousseau take to be the "happiest and most stable of epochs," and why (432R)?
Question 19. Why does Rousseau claim that it wasn't gold and silver, but iron and corn (wheat) "which first civilized men, and ruined humanity" (433R)?
Question 20. How did a "new intelligence" result from the increase in numbers of people, according to Rousseau's anthropological speculations (429R)?