Hobbes - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

natrual rights - ️️Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke - ️️17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. State of Nature - ️️Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. Due Process - ️️involves the government's obligation to treat all citizens fairly. Such a requiremen...

WGU C963 - OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT SUPERSET LATEST UPDATED 2024 GRADED A+ Major contributors to social contract theory - ANSWER-Hobbes, Locke, Reasseau

Test Bank for Inventors of Ideas: Introduction to Political Thought, 4e 4th Edition by Donald Tannenbaum, Briana L. McGinnis. Full Chapters (Chapter 1 to 20) are given with answers. Part I. INTRODUCTION. 1. The History of Political Thought: Introducing the Challenge. Part II: FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS: JUSTICE AND POLITICAL COMMUNITY. 2. Plato: Navigating Justice. 3. Aristotle: The Good City. 4. Cicero: Citizenship and the Republic. Part III: THE GOOD LIFE: FAITH AND REASON. 5. Augustine: ...

social contract theory - ANSWER persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live Hobbes - ANSWER wrote Leviathan, argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government. any political community that sought to provide the greatest good, o...

Alberta Social Studies 30-1 Definitions 100% Correct Classical Liberalism Valuing the freedom of individuals Perspectives Someones point of view Ideology A system of ideas and ideals Individualism The habit of being independent Collectivism The thinking that values the goals of the group and the common good over the goals of any one individual Point of view Someones first person view Citizenship Being part of a community Dystopias An imaginary place where things are b...

British Empiricists British philosophers who believed that knowledge is derived from experience Empiricism - epistemology asserting that the evidence of the senses constitutes the primary data of knowledge. Knowledge cannot exist until this evidence is gathered and all subsequent intellectual processes use this evidence Characteristics of British Empiricism Agreement to exclude inner experiences, such as dreams and emotions, and focus exclusively on sensory experience sensory experience const...

PLSC 001 Exam 1 PSU Questions and Answers 100% Pass Government - Answer- Any system for implementing decisions made through a political process Politics - Answer- Process of determining what government does Philosophy - Answer- the study of the fundamental nature of reality, knowledge, and how to live (also translated to the love of wisdom) Political Philosophy (Theory) - Answer- part of ethics, ethics applied to groups of people. Asks what the government should be doing. Metaphysics - ...

Ethics Exam 3 Questions with All Correct Answers Thomas Hobbes book - Answer-Leviathan The Devine right of kings - Answer-A king is the Gods servant on earth Hobbes idea of natural means - Answer-Everyone is on the same level, even the weakest person could take out the strongest in some way. If someone is string in some areas, and weak in others, there are people who are strong in that persons weak areas. Happiness - Answer-felicity Continuous progress of desire - Answer-Striving t...

Honors Government Semester 1 ExamWho holds power in an autocracy? - correct answer a single person with unlimited political power According to Hobbes's theory on human nature people always act... - correct answer in their own self interest Which of the following illustrates an INCORRECT grammar usage of State/state? - correct answer Ohio, Michigan, and other states make up the Midwest According to the Social Contract Theory people created __ in order to leave the State of Nature. - cor...

natrual rights - Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke - 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. State of Nature - Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. Due Process - involves the government's obligation to treat all citizens fairly. Such a requirement lessens the extent to whi...