MIDTERM• Midterm will be in class for one hour. Bring

bluebooks. Exam is closed book (and closed computer); no notes. A copy of this has been mailed to you.

• Two questions:• I: This will be a brief question on an aspect of either

Rawls or Sen.• II. Reread the Weber vocation essays and the

material on technology from Heidegger and Benjamin. You will be asked a “compare and contrast” question between some aspect of the Weber and either Heidegger or Benjamin.

Plato

• The argument of the Republic on democracy and the democratic soul

George Kateb

• Kateb Who• • Whitman Who

– Leaves of Grass – if the point of CD and Walden is that most people live lives of quite desperation, not knowing where they live and for what, what can we do about it• Cf echoes here of Apology• what does it mean to describe oneself democratically?

– The particularities of a democratic culture: we have to understand how people are connected to each other and to themselves democratically• We have seen in passing other ways

– Contract– Natural hierarchy– Meritocratic– Racial– Friend enemy– Leadership of various kinds– Might add: covenant

Duchamp – Nude descending a staircase

• Compare to PLato