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Choose A, B or C from the list below: A. COMPOSE A DIALOGUE between two or more characters on the subject of a virtue of your choice. Two important rules. First, at least one of the speakers in your dialogue must be committed to a serious examination of the subject. Second, the virtue that you select should have some general or widespread appeal as a characteristic of goodness (such as, for example: courage, compassion, honesty, intelligence, industriousness, self-control, patriotism). B. BELIEF AND DOUBT. In the Euthyphro Socrates picks apart Euthyphro's beliefs, and in the Phaedo, Simmias and Cebes pick apart Socrates' beliefs. Two questions. First, how does Plato attempt to show that Socrates' beliefs are more worthy than Euthyphro's beliefs? Second, how valid are these methods for distinguishing between better and worse beliefs? (Note: you should find that Plato uses a number of methods to show the superiority of Socrates' beliefs; the different methods may or may not all be equally valid in your judgment, however.) C. COMPARE AND CONTRAST HOMER AND PLATO AS ARTISTS. You may wish to consider any or all of the following points: their choices of subject matters, their styles or techniques, their apparent purposes or intentions, their effects or influences; their reputations or places in history.
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READINGS
for Powers of Literature 1. Genesis
1 1. Genesis
11 2. Odyssey
8 3. Iliad
1-2 4. Iliad
9 4. Peleus
& Thetis 5. Iliad
15 ff 6. Iliad
20 ff 7. Odyssey
13-18 8. Odyssey
20-24 9. Life
of Alexander 10. Origins
of writing 11. Plato,
Euthyphro 12. Plato,
Apology 13. Plato,
Crito 14. Plato,
Phaedo 15.
Luke,
Acts 16.
Saint
Francis 17.
Chretien,
The Knight of the Cart
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