Question 1

If you read the Plato selection (Reading 1), you have (briefly) engaged in the kind of liberal learning that Oakeshott describes. Did it have the effect that Oakeshott hopes for?

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Question 2

Would Krishnamurti and Oakeshott agree in their views of what life is?

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Question 3

In what sense does Oakeshott use the term "liberal"?
A) Politically left wing
B) Having a lot of something
C) Being liberated from something
D) Happening in a democracy

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Oakeshott uses the term "liberal" in the sense of being liberated from something, emphasizing freedom and liberation as core aspects of liberalism.

Question 4

To what extent do you think that institutions, traditions, culture, society, government, and so on, shape and control us and our conceptions of morality? Explain your answer with details from your own experience.

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Question 5

On Hook's view, creativity is the primary element allowing the possibility of change.

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Question 6

Because things now are so much more uniform, we should recognize and promote this uniformity by socializing students in our schools.

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Promoting uniformity overlooks the importance of diversity and individuality in education, which are crucial for fostering creativity, critical thinking, and understanding in a multicultural society.

Question 7

Foucault speaks of two levels of power in order to emphasize one over the other. Describe these two levels and provide examples of what you think Foucault might have in mind.

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Question 8

Do you think that Foucault would agree with Plato (Reading 1) about truth? Whose view do you think is most applicable to what you see in society?

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Question 9

Contrast Krishnamurti and Oakeshott on the importance of understanding and becoming a part of contemporary culture?

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Question 10

How do you think that Oakeshott would characterize a technical or career-focused education? Does his view disregard the economic reasons people might seek education? Is it elitist?

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Question 11

For Oakeshott, what is the relationship between a culture and the individual within it? How does education influence this relationship? How does Oakeshott's view differ from Krishnamurti's (Reading 2)? Whose view do you agree with more? Why?

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Question 12

Oakeshott says one role of education is to free us from the boundaries of our specific time and place.

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Oakeshott argues that education introduces us to a conversation of mankind, allowing us to transcend the limitations of our own era and locality by engaging with the thoughts and achievements of the past.

Question 13

For Oakeshott, being human is a __________.
A) A process
B) An adventure
C) A set course
D) A skill

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Oakeshott views being human as an adventure, emphasizing the unpredictability and the experiential learning aspect of human life, rather than a predetermined path or a specific skill to be mastered.

Question 14

Foucault says that the problem of the intellectual is to __________.
A) Separate truth from power
B) Discover the truth
C) Detach truth from hegemonic systems of power
D) Gain power over non-intellectuals

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Foucault argued that intellectuals should work to detach truth from the hegemonic systems of power, challenging the ways in which power influences what is considered truth.

Question 15

Do you think that Oakeshott would characterize your college education as an "adventure in human understanding"? To what extent? Why? Support your answers by citing specific things that Oakeshott says in the reading.

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Question 16

What pressures do you experience that work against participation in the conversation of liberal learning, as Oakeshott describes it?

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Question 17

The university is a place sheltered from the circumstances around us where we can learn excellence.

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The first line of the given statement says that the university is a place sheltered from the circumstances around us. This means that the university is a place where we can learn excellence without being distracted by the outside world.

Question 18

Which of the following is a key concept for Foucault?
A) Discourse
B) Tragedy
C) Privacy
D) Diplomacy

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Discourse is a key concept in Foucault's work, focusing on how knowledge and power are exercised through language and practices within societies.

Question 19

In the second paragraph, Foucault says, "We are subjected to the production of truth through power and we cannot exercise power except through the production of truth." Explain what you think he mans by that statement: to what contemporary examples do you think his statement could apply?

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Question 20

In what terms should we think of the political problems of intellectuals?
A) Truth and Falsity
B) Right and Wrong
C) Truth and Power
D) Science and Ideology

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Intellectuals often engage with political problems in terms of "Truth and Power." This perspective emphasizes the role of knowledge and truth in political struggles and the ways in which power dynamics influence the construction and dissemination of truth.

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