PART B. IDENTIFICATIONS: The following passages come from th…
PART B. IDENTIFICATIONS: The following passages come from the readings you have done for the semester. For this part of the exam, you are to name the author of FIVE of these passages and interpret these same FIVE passages, each in a coherent paragraph. In “interpreting a passage,” you should give its context within the author’s argument, the meaning of the passage, and how it relates to other ideas in the author’s argument or the wider course. Use as many specific details as possible.
Read Details“Since, therefore, there exists a twofold truth concerning t…
“Since, therefore, there exists a twofold truth concerning the divine being, one to which the inquiry of the reason can reach, the other which surpasses the whole ability of the human reason, it is fitting that both of these truths be proposed to man divinely for belief.”
Read Details“We have given you birth, nurtured you, educated you; we hav…
“We have given you birth, nurtured you, educated you; we have given you and all other citizens a share of all the good things we could. Even so, by giving every Athenian the opportunity once arrived at voting age and having observed the affairs of the city and us the laws, we proclaim that if we do not please him, he can take his possessions and go wherever he pleases…We say, however, that whoever of you remains, when he sees how we conduct our trials and manage the city in other ways, has in fact come to an agreement with us to obey our instructions.”
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