CCD FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS RATED A.
"You have had seventy years during which you could have gone away if
you did not like us, and if you thought our agreements unjust. You did not
choose to go to Sparta or to Crete, which are well governed, nor to any
other city, Greek or foreign... it is clear that the city has been outstandingly
more congenial to you than to other Athenians, and so have we, the laws,
for what city can please without laws?"
Plato - Crito Dialogue
"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it
is vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more
likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show
them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of
them... It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own
interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love,
and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."
Adam Smith
"Unfortunately, brothers and sisters, we are the product of a spiritualized,
individualistic education. We were taught: try to save your soul and don't
worry about the rest. We told the suffering: be patient, heaven will follow,
hang on. No, that's not right, that's not salvation! That's not the salvation
Christ brought. The salvation Christ brings is a salvation from every
bondage that oppresses human beings."
Oscar Romero
"Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labor, the
work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and,
consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of
, the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most
easily acquired knack that is required of him"
Karl Marx
"Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.' So God
created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."
Genesis
"From this it is evident that the study of the books of the ancients is
obligatory by Law, since their aim and purpose in their books is just the
purpose to which the Law has urged us...."
Ibn Rushd
"In light of the foregoing factors there appears the dichotomy of a world
that is at once powerful and weak, capable of doing what is noble and
what is base, disposed to freedom and slavery, progress and decline,
amenity and hatred. People are becoming conscious that the forces they
have unleashed are in their own hands and that it is up to themselves to
control them or to be enslaved by them. Here lies the modern dilemma."
Second Vatican Council - Gaudiem et Spes
"Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its
ideals in the world, material goods have gained an increasing and finally
an inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in
history. Today the spirit of religious asceticism—whether finally, who
knows?—has escaped from the cage. But victorious capitalism, since it
rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer... ...In the
field of its highest development, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth,
stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated
with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character
of sport."
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS RATED A.
"You have had seventy years during which you could have gone away if
you did not like us, and if you thought our agreements unjust. You did not
choose to go to Sparta or to Crete, which are well governed, nor to any
other city, Greek or foreign... it is clear that the city has been outstandingly
more congenial to you than to other Athenians, and so have we, the laws,
for what city can please without laws?"
Plato - Crito Dialogue
"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it
is vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more
likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favor, and show
them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of
them... It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own
interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love,
and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."
Adam Smith
"Unfortunately, brothers and sisters, we are the product of a spiritualized,
individualistic education. We were taught: try to save your soul and don't
worry about the rest. We told the suffering: be patient, heaven will follow,
hang on. No, that's not right, that's not salvation! That's not the salvation
Christ brought. The salvation Christ brings is a salvation from every
bondage that oppresses human beings."
Oscar Romero
"Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labor, the
work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and,
consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of
, the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most
easily acquired knack that is required of him"
Karl Marx
"Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.' So God
created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them."
Genesis
"From this it is evident that the study of the books of the ancients is
obligatory by Law, since their aim and purpose in their books is just the
purpose to which the Law has urged us...."
Ibn Rushd
"In light of the foregoing factors there appears the dichotomy of a world
that is at once powerful and weak, capable of doing what is noble and
what is base, disposed to freedom and slavery, progress and decline,
amenity and hatred. People are becoming conscious that the forces they
have unleashed are in their own hands and that it is up to themselves to
control them or to be enslaved by them. Here lies the modern dilemma."
Second Vatican Council - Gaudiem et Spes
"Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its
ideals in the world, material goods have gained an increasing and finally
an inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in
history. Today the spirit of religious asceticism—whether finally, who
knows?—has escaped from the cage. But victorious capitalism, since it
rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer... ...In the
field of its highest development, in the United States, the pursuit of wealth,
stripped of its religious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated
with purely mundane passions, which often actually give it the character
of sport."
