Answer three questions. The required question will be specified at the exam.
Please use the entire hour for the test.
1. Who were the Sophists and why were young Athenians willing to pay for their instruction? How did they influence Plato and Aristotle?
2. Give an account of Plato's theory of the forms and explain why Aristotle found it wanting.
3. Why did Aristotle not consider women and slaves fully human and what were his requirements for full humanity?
4. Describe Plato's myth of the cave and explain how it reflects Plato's view of reality.
5. Compare Raymond Ibrahim and Osama bin Laden's views of (a) the Muslim conquests and (b) the creation of the State of Israel.
6. Compare the views expressed by the Saudi scholars in their response to the American letter, "What We Are Fighting For: A Letter from America" and Osama bin Laden on the legitimacy of offensive jihad.
7. What were the differences between slavery in pre-Civil War America and slavery at I.G. Farben Auschwitz?
8. Explain the following statement: The Holocaust was an expression of some of the most significant political, moral, and demographic tendencies of Western civilization in the twentieth century.
9. How did the phenomenon of surplus people aruse and how did it lead to the World War I Battles of Verdun and the Somme and ultimatel to the Holocaust?
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