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Please write the number of the correct answer after each number of the question on a lined piece of paper. Please place your name and the date at the top of the page before turning it in. Thank you...
1. Please match the following:
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a. Political philosophy b. Dissent c. Totalitarianism d. Anarchism |
____ 1. The belief that the power of the state should be absolute ____ 2. To refuse to conform to an established tradition or law ____ 3. The belief that ideally there should be no state at all ____ 4. The study of the relationship between the individual and the state |
2. Please match the following:
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a. Plato b. Aristotle c. John Locke d. Thomas Hobbes |
____ 1. Life is hostile and to survive it is in our own self-interest to
obey the law and enter a social contract for a strong state. ____ 2. Individuals have God-given natural rights, including the rights of life, liberty, and property. ____ 3. The qualities necessary to get elected to political office have little or no relationship to the qualities needed to govern. ____ 4. Rule by an elite (or expert) is clearly the best alternative. |
3. Please match the following:
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a. Civil disobedience b. Social contract c. wei-wu-wei d. Hegel's dialectic |
____ 1. An agreement among citizens to create the state ____ 2. Breaking a civil law in protest by citing obedience to a higher law ____ 3. Thesis--antithesis--synthesis ____ 4. "Doing without doing" --following the built-in order in nature and human affairs |
4. Please match the following:
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a. Susan B. Anthony b. Hegel c. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
____ 1. Perfect freedom exists only in the state of nature, in which state
people are innocent and good ____ 2. "Robbed of the fundamental priveleges of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject..." ____ 3. History is moving in the direction of greater freedom through a dialectical process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. |
nb: each item is worth 6 points