Food for Thought Reading Assignment

Week 4: Thursday, September 26

I will divide you into three groups. Each group is responsible for only doing one of the readings and answering the questions associated with that particular reading. Look for your name below to see which reading you are responsible for.

Aristotle, The Politics (Adams, Cannon, Edmondson, Fuchs, Geaney)

1) According to Aristotle, what is the end or objective of the state?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2) Which group would make the best rulers? Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Grenier, Murphy, Orlando, Pelletier, Rotondi)

1) According to Pericles, why is Athenian democracy a model for the rest of Greece? What are the attributes of Athenian democracy? How does democracy make Athens strong?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus (Sinclair, Tarracciano, White, Wright)

1) List the wide variety of practices instituted by Lycurgus. What types of virtues and abilities did these practices seek to encourage? In one way or another, how did they aim at the same objective?