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How are John Locke's ideas reflected within our government today?
What does Wollstonecraft mean when she says, "I do not wish for them to have power over men, but over themselves"? Explain.
bad judgment of self, different ways of justice, inequality, confuse people and objects
According to Strauss, should political science attempt to be "value-free"? What does he mean by this phrase and what is his argument?
Which of the following commands, if given by the sovereign, does a subject have the right to disobey?
If every man, I authorize and give up my right to this man on the condition that thou give up thy right to this same man. THis done, with many united in one person, is a commonwealth. THis is the generation of that great Leviathan. Of that mortal god, to which we owe under our peace and defenceHe that carry this person, is called sovereign. And said to have soverignpower an everyone.
What innate human faculty allows natural man to discover how to escape the state of nature?
Which of the following does Hobbes believe approximates the living conditions of the state of nature?
What does Hobbes see as the immediate result of a rebellion against the sovereign, or against the social covenant, as in civil war?
When is it justified for subjects to rebel against the sovereign?
In a condition of war, no place for industry, not culture, navigation, building, moving, art, knowledge of earthThe life of man in war: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, shor
f Names, some are Proper, and singular to one onely thing; as Peter, John, This Man, This Tree: and some are Common to many things; as Man, Horse, Tree; every of which though but one Name, is nevertheless the name of divers particular things; in respect of all which together, it is called an Universall; there being nothing in the world Universall but Names;
"In deliberation, the last appetite or aversion. The definition of will, is rational appetitive, is not good. If it were, there would be no voluntary at against reason. A voluntar y act what iwll proceed from will and no other"
What innate human faculty makes natural man want to escape the state of nature?What innate faculty prevents civilized man from breaking the social contract?
Occasioned by disorders of present time, without partiality, without application, and without design than to se before mens eyes in the mutual relation between protection and obedience
But though there had never been any time, wherein particular men were in a condition of warre one against another; yet in all times, Kings, and persons of Soveraigne authority, because of their Independency, are in continuall jealousies, and in the state and posture of Gladiators; having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War
Which of the following does Hobbes equate with an author, whose words are his or her own?
"When in the mine of man, apptetites, aversions, hopes, fears, concerning and diver good and evil cosneqeuecnes of doing thing. The whole sum of the desires, hopes, aversions, is deliberation
Right of nature, jus naturale, liberty each man hath to use his own power for the preservation of his own life. Doing anything by his own judgement and reason
No such finis ultinus(utmost aim) nor summum bonum(greates good) as is spoken. Nor can a man live, whose desires are at and end. Felicity is an continual progress of desire. One objec to another