CVSP 201 Final, Fall 1999
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-« CIVILIZATION SEQUENCE 201
FINAL EXAMINATION
TIME: Two hours: January 25, 2000
fe Ms. A. Arasoghli
Answer two of the following questions:
Plato holds that justice benefitrs the man who is just. Discuss Plato’s
definition of Justice. Why does he think that philosophers have a clear
understanding of justice?
Aristotle discusses ethics not in terms of moral absolutes, but in terms
of what is conducive to man’s good.
a) Discuss the above statement with reference to the concept of
happiness.
b) Consider in detail Aristotle’s views of the life of intellectual
contemptation.
Discuss the conception of death in two of the following texts:
a) The Epic of Gilgamesh.
b) The Last Days of Socrates.
¢) On. the Nature of the Universe.
“If Fates were leaving me free to live my own life and settle all my
cares according to my own wishes, my first concern would be to tend
the city of Troy and my dear ones who are still alive”. (The Aeneid)
a) Explain the above quotation with specific reference to the role
of Venus, Juno, Jupiter and Apollo.
b) Explain in detail the role of the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh
Or Oedipus the King.