November
28, 2019
AP/POLS
1000C
Instructor:
Rodney Loeppky
Mid-Term
(Weight: 20% of final grade)
Directions:
Instructions:
Answer each of the
questions below
in 600 words or less. Each
question
carries equal weight (ie. 50% each).
Answers must be typewritten, and you must provide a word
count at the
end of each answer. Please submit a hard copy of your mid-term to
Nuzhat Khurshid
between 12 pm and 2pm, Friday, November 29th, in
South Ross 606
(unless your TA has made alternative arrangements for
submission).
Please include your name, student number, and
your TA’s name and tutorial number.
*In relation to course
materials, you
are not required to supply citations, unless you directly quote
a text. Otherwise,
all rules of plagiarism do apply –
do not borrow text or ideas from any source, including other
students or
outside sources, without citation.
**This is an exam, so
without medical or
appropriate documentation, you cannot hand your exam in
late.
Questions:
1.
What is
the difference between
protective and developmental republicanism, and how are the
origins of each
reflected in the ancient world?
2.
What are
the concepts of ‘utilitarianism’
and the ‘harm principle’, and how do they influence John Stuart
Mill’s conception
of governance?