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Information on the Oral Final Exam with Professor Matsevich
Date/Time/Place:
The oral final exam will be taken at the Skokie campus on Wednesday, June 9
th
between 1pm and 5pm (in the time-slot he/she signed up for in advance).
Time limit:
Each student has a maximum of 15 minutes (in the time-slot he/she signed up for in advance).
Are textbooks allowed?
Yes. You can bring your books, but remember that the exam is an oral conversation
, so the book will only be helpful if you can use it efficiently to point out passages in support of your argument.
Questions:
Each student will need to answer 2 questions from the list provided by Professor Matsevich.
The first question can be chosen by each student in advance. (So, pick the one question you think you are best able to answer, and practice your oral response to it).
The second question
will be assigned to each student by Olga Gusak on the day of the
exam. (So, when reviewing for the exam, you should practice answering all of the remaining answers. You will only have a limited amount of time to prepare between when you are given your assigned question and when you begin the interview with Professor Matsevich)
Pool of Oral Final Exam Questions
1)
What method did Socrates employ in his conversations? 2)
What is at stake in the quarrel between Socrates and the Athenians? 3)
How did Socrates manage to put the city of Athens on trial before the high court of philosophy?
4)
What is at the heart of Socrates’ speech in the Apology?
5)
How do we come to know such general concepts as piety? 6)
How is the character of impiety delineated by Euthyphro? What general statements does Euthyphro use to ascertain whether any particular action is pious or impious? 7)
What does it mean ‘to give a definition’? What is meant by ‘definition’? 8)
Which definitions of pious/impious actions did Euthyphro give? 9)
What is the cave full of shadows and echoes to be compared with? 10)
What is meant by the simile of the sun in terms of Plato’s epistemology and ontology? 11)
What is the relationship between the world of appearances and the world of knowledge?
12)
What problems did Hobbes try to solve by means of his new mechanical philosophy?
13)
How is the ideal human society formed and sustained in Hobbes’s philosophy?
14)
Which statements express the key ideas of the social contract theory?
15)
What is sovereignty in Hobbesian terms?
16)
To which notions did Hobbes reduce the essence of human nature?
17)
What is liberty for Hobbes?
18)
How did Friedrich Nietzsche carry out his transvaluation of classical values?
19)
What are the defining characteristics of Nietzsche’s language? 20)
Why did Nietzsche criticize the language of classical philosophy?
21)
Why and how did Nietzsche criticize Platonism and Christianity?
22)
What arguments did Wollstonecraft develop to criticize gender roles firmly established in her times? 23)
What are the major themes of The Communist Manifesto?
24)
Which are the defining features of bourgeois and communist society?
25)
How is the concept of alienation deployed in Marx’s philosophy?
26)
What are the major themes of existentialism?
27)
Which are the central concepts in Sartre’s doctrine of existentialism? 28)
What did Sartre intend to express by means of the formula “existence precedes essence”?
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