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Q.1) The death of Socrates, to a large extent, occurred because the citizens of ancient Athens’ were unable to distinguish clearly between Socrates and any old sophist; accordingly, a comparison of Socrates to the sophists will help one to avoid making the same mistake as that committed by those early members of the Western world. Why, then, is Socrates often mistaken as a sophist? In what ways is he different from them? In crafting one’s response, one would do well to consider to what respective ends rhetoric is employed and why; nomadism versus fidelity to Athens; Aristophanes’ portrayal of Socrates in The Clouds; Socrates’ description of himself as a “gadfly”; Socrates’ description of himself as a “midwife”; Socrates’ reason for confessing that he cannot teach knowledge and, accordingly, why he cannot accept payment; the sophists’ reason for charging their students; and relativism and skepticism/cynicism versus absolute knowledge, or Truth.

Q.2) Who are the sophists? One would do well to consider some, if not all, of the following: the historical context surrounding the emergence of sophistry; the nature of the material that the sophists claimed to teach; the definitions of, and the relationship between, rhetoric and relativism, respectively, (including the roles of skepticism, agnosticism, and the logos, as well as Protagoras’ claim that “of all things, man is the measure”); the definitions of, and the

relationship between, physis and nomos (including the tie to relativism, the collapse of the distinction between knowledge and opinion, and, consequently, what becomes of the logos).

Q.3) According to Socrates’ friend, Chaerephon, the sacred Oracle at Delphi claimed that no one was wiser than Socrates of Athens; however, Socrates claims to know only one thing: that he possess no wisdom whatsoever. Nonetheless, what four beliefs does Socrates appear ‘to know,’ or hold to be true? What makes him reasonably certain of these convictions? Is there anything ironic about his seeming ‘to know’ these things? One would do well to include consideration of the Socratic method and dialectic vs. dogmatism; Alcibiades’ eulogy of Socrates; Socrates’ attitude in the face of death; and his pronouncement that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”

Q.4) According to Saint Augustine, how is the world ordered, and what does such order suggest about the nature of God? One would do well to consider the following: Plotinus’ notion of the One; emanation versus voluntary, loving creation ex nihilo; The Great Chain of Being; being as intelligibility; the metaphysical status of nothingness.

Q.5) What is the problem of evil in Saint Augustine’s thought? Consider some or all of the following in your response: both types of evil (natural and moral, which is to say, evil as privation of good/intelligibility and moral evil), the free will and its corruption, spiritual conversion rather than mere ascertainment of knowledge, Augustine’s interpretation of the Fall of Man, Augustine’s notion of babies, the Great Chain of Being as a hierarchy of values; pride; the nature of sin; original sin; loves, both ordered and disordered.

Q.6) Saint Augustine identifies himself as a Neo-Platonist, following in the tradition of Socrates, Plato (and Plotinus); in what way is Augustine’s thought similar to, different from, and a development of or deviation from Socrates and Plato’s philosophy? Feel free to focus on any feature(s) of their respective thought and offer a nuanced comparison and contrast thereon.

Q.7) In what way is Philosophy reactionary? Select one of the two major thinkers that we covered in class and discuss how each thinker’s particular poetic philosophy is a reaction to the culture of his time, as well as to the tradition. One would do well to consider the following: the polytheism of ancient Greece; sophistic influence thereon; Manichaeism; and early Christianity.

Q.8) The history of western philosophy is, as the title of Norman Melchert’s book indicates, a great conversation; in many ways, this great conversation begins with Socrates and his various contemporaries- particularly, the conversation that takes place among them and some of their immediate successors found in late Antiquity. Please trace the trajectory of this conversation as it begins in ‘Socrates’ and moves through Saint Augustine of Hippo. One would do well to consider the precise ways in which each thinker’s claim(s) is somehow

shaped by the thinker(s) that came before him (including, perhaps, the influence of geographic location) and, more broadly, the cohesiveness of the overall conversation.

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July 1, 2023

Exp19_Word_Intro_CapAssessment_Research

Project Description:

As you near graduation from college, you plan to apply to various graduate schools. You have prepared a draft of a statement of purpose that you will include in an application packet to each university to which you apply. You modify the statement of purpose so that it is attractive and error free. In addition, you include such items as a table, picture, header, footer, and footnote, formatting text in columns where appropriate. Finally, you use mail merge to prepare personalized copies.

Start Word. Download and open the file named Exp19_Word_AppCapstone_IntroAssessment_Research.docx. Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the filename.

Apply the Slice document theme. Select all text in the document, and change the font to Bookman Old Style. Change the font size to 12. Adjust the right and left margins to 1.5".

Insert a header (select Edit Header). Type Adams in the left section of the header. Insert a right-aligned page number, selecting Plain Number. Close the header.

Insert a manual page break before the second paragraph on the second page, beginning with On behalf of the faculty and staff.

Select all text that displays before the newly inserted page break and double-space the selected text. Remove any paragraph spacing from the selected text.

Move to the beginning of the document and press ENTER. Remove the First line indent from the newly inserted blank paragraph. At the new paragraph, type Statement of Purpose and apply bold formatting to the title. Center the title.

A footnote enables you to clarify or expound on a statement in the body of the document without cluttering the document with more text. Unlike a footer, a footnote only displays on the page in which it is cited.

In the second paragraph on the first page, place the insertion point after the period at the end of the sentence that ends with by the University of Arizona. Insert a footnote that reads The Three Minute Thesis Competition is open to all academic disciplines at the university. (include the period).

Modify the Footnote style, changing the font to Bookman Old Style and the font size to 12.

Change the word sophomore in the first sentence on the first page to student.

Insert a footer (select Edit Footer) and type 2022 Fall in the footer space. Change the footer font to Bookman Old Style and change the footer font size to 12. Close the footer.

Newsletters are often formatted in columns, as is the one that is included in this document. By using section breaks, you can format each section independently of others.

Select all text on pages 4 and 5 and format it in two columns. Insert a Continuous section break before the words On behalf of the faculty and staff at the top of the fourth page.

Click before the newly inserted section break at the top of the fourth page and change the column setting to One. Type Welcome to the College of Business and press ENTER twice. Select Welcome to the College of Business and apply the Title style. Reduce the font size to 22. Center the newsletter title.

Add a bottom border with a weight of 1 1/2 to the text Welcome to the College of Business.

Pictures and graphics are often included in newsletters, adding interest and style. Even so, those objects should be incorporated relatively seamlessly with surrounding text, requiring that you wrap text appropriately and size graphics so they are attractive but not overbearing.

Place the insertion point before the words The College of Business at the beginning of the second body paragraph on the fourth page. Insert the University.JPG picture, downloaded with this project. Change the picture style to Reflected Rounded Rectangle. Resize the picture height to 1" and select Square text wrapping.

Place the insertion point after the period ending the first paragraph on the second page (ending in upon graduation). Press ENTER. Remove the First line indent. Insert a 2-column by 6-row table. Change the width of the second column to 1".

Type Course in the top left cell and press TAB. Type Grade in the next cell on the first row. Press TAB. Complete the table as shown below:

  Course Grade
Int.   Microeconomics A
Int.   Macroeconomics B
Public   Finance B
Business   Calculus A
Contemporary   Economics A

Insert a row above the first row in the table. Merge all cells in row 1 and type Major Courses Completed in row 1. Apply Align Center alignment to row 1. Apply a table style of Grid Table 4 - Accent 6 (row 4, column 7 under Grid Tables). Center the table horizontally.

Add a caption below the table. The caption should read Table 1: Major Courses Completed at the University of Arizona. (Do not include the period.) Center the caption.

Create a custom watermark to display at a diagonal, with the text Copy in Blue (column 8 in Standard colors).

Check spelling and grammar in the document. Correct the misspelling of analyzed and the hyphenation of first-time. If the check does not suggest a change for first time, manually correct it in the second to last paragraph in the left column on page 5, changing first time to first-time. Ignore all other grammatical and clarity concerns.

Replace the dash dividing the words organization and Fortune 500 in the first paragraph on the fourth page with an Em Dash symbol.

Select the paragraph beginning with I hope you will accept the challenge on the last page (including the paragraph mark). Apply shading of Red, Accent 6, Lighter 60% to the selected paragraph.

Begin a mail merge, selecting recipients from an existing list—Graduate_Schools.xlsx, using Sheet1$. Sort the data source in ascending order by University and filter to select only those universities with an Area equal to W.

Replace [University Name] in the first paragraph on the third page with the merge field of University. Be sure to include the brackets with text to be replaced. Ensure that a space precedes and follows the newly inserted University placeholder. Preview the results and then finish the merge, choosing to edit individual documents and merging all records.

Select the entire merged document and copy it. Switch to Exp19_Word_AppCapstone_IntroAssessment_Research, move the insertion point to the end of the document, and insert a manual page break. At the top of the new page, paste the copied text. The original document to which you pasted the merged data now contains 15 pages. Save Exp19_Word_AppCapstone_IntroAssessment_Research and close all open documents without saving.

Save Exp19_Word_AppCapstone_IntroAssessment_Research. Close all other open files without saving. Submit Exp19_Word_AppCapstone_IntroAssessment_Research as directed.