Short Quiz to be submitted on Wednesday (December 7, 2011)

On-line quiz

Social Science 2

Instructions: Write your answers on a blue book, not on-line. Anybody who answers on-line will get the grade of “zero”. Submit your answers in our next class meeting, Wednesday 7 December 2011. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Identify the following:

1. Plato’s teacher who was condemned to death for offending the gods and corrupting the youth.
2. The founder of the Lyceum in ancient Athens.
3. His conquests and imperial domination completed the decline of the polis (the city states in ancient Greece).
4. A school of thought in the Hellenistic period whose basic moral teaching was to pursue pleasure to the maximum because bad times are soon to follow.
5. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, what is the origin of inequality among men?
6. Which of the philosophies during the Hellenistic period influenced the development of Roman law?
7. What metaphor did Adam Smith use to refer to an alleged law that automatically adjusts supply, demand and price if the market is left alone?
8. What is the popular name for a school of thought that seeks to limit the powers of government supposedly to broaden the freedom of individuals?
9. Who put forward the theory that in entering into the social contract, men did not abandon all their natural rights but retained the rights to life, liberty and property?
10. Who advanced a theory opposite to #9 above, arguing that in the social contract men totally surrendered their natural rights to the sovereign; hence the power of the state over its citizens is absolute.