Answer the following questions with reference to each of the following authors: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, and Machiavelli.
1. What makes a state function and preserves it is a problem, and why their states-Athens, Rome, and Florence-have fallen from former heights is matter of great concern?
2. What do Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, and Machiavelli think makes for good societies? Good Rulers?
3. What do they think goes wrong with states?
4. What has gone wrong with their own states?
5. What lessons do they each offer us today about what makes a good state?
6. What makes a bad one?
7. What makes a good ruler?
8. What virtues are necessary in politics, and what we need to be on the lookout for?
9. What do they tell us, and what do you think about what they have to say for us today?
For sources you can ONLY use the following books:
Plato, The Republic (Focus Press) (ISBN 9781585102617)
Aristole, The Politics (Focus Press) (ISBN 9781585103768)
Cicero, On Obligations (Oxford University Press) (ISBN 9780199540716)
Dante, Inferno (Random House) (ISBN 9780345483577)
Machiavelli, The Prince (Chicago Press) (ISBN 0226500381)
Use the text to support your interpretations and arguments, citing all references and quotations.
A great essay will be one that includes a fresh insight grounded in an accurate and thoughtful grasp of the reading. Support your response with reason and consider objections.
1. Your ability to respond to the question that is asked.
2. Your demonstration that you have read the text.
3. Your understanding of that text.
4. Your own ability to construct an argument that is persuasive and reasoned
5. Your comprehension of the issues involved in the problems the questions point to.
6. Your ability to address those problems.
The way to achieve a good papers and demonstrate the above:
1. Know what you will argue before you sit down to write-if you need to write something to figure out what you are trying to say, rewrite it once you have figured it out.
2. Be clear about what you are arguing- state a thesis
3. Make sure that you include in the paper advances an argument and addresses the question.
4. Be succinct—don’t ramble or use run-on sentences.
5. Cite from the text to prove that characters or authors believe what you say that they believe.
6. Read carefully to make sure you are not misinterpreting what you are reading—it’s like listening closely to someone trying to explain things.
7. Come to a conclusion. Have the courage of your conviction, but an ability to explain why you believe what you do. Be able to support what you believe.
8. Write carefully. Make sure you are saying what you mean to. Grammar and spelling mistakes show that you did not take as much time as you needed to in writing.
9. Show your paper to someone else to point out writing/grammar mistakes, and to point out things that you might not have thought of.
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