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29 Cards in this Set
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What is the life of man like in the state of nature? (Hobbes)
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War; The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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What is the only way to erect a common power? (Hobbes)
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A contract of Commonwealth (This contract creates a Commonwealth, with a sovereign and subjects, and a system of justice.)
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What does reason teach all men in the state of nature? (Locke)
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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions
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What is the basis of all legitimate authority among men? (Rousseau)
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Not nature, not force, only convention: a social contract
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What does it mean to renounce liberty? (Rousseau)
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It is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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What are the three methods of treating history? (Hegel)
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Original, Reflective, and Philisophical
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What is the only thought which philosophy brings to the contemplation of history? (Hegel)
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the simple conception of Reason.
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What is the essence of Spirit? (Hegel)
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Freedom
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What two elements enter into the object of our investigation, forming the warp and woof of its tapestry? (Hegel)
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The Idea and the complex of human passions.
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What are world-historical individuals? (Hegel)
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People who by their heroic actions usher in a new age.
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What embodiment does Spirit assume? (Hegel)
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The State
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What is Spirit at war with? (Hegel)
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Itself
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Is it appropriate to raise moral claims against world-historical deeds and their accomplishment? (Hegel)
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No
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What is history in general? (Hegel)
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it is the development of Spirit in Time
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What is the principle of utility or the greatest happiness principle? (Mill)
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Action are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness.
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What is happiness? (Mill)
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Few pains, many pleasures,..not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing
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What is the ultimate sanction of the principle of utility? (Mill)
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The conscientious feelings of mankind.
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What is the sole evidence that anything is desirable? (Mill)
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is that people actually desire it.
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What is it to have a right? (Mill)
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To have something which society ought to defend me in the possession of.
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What is justice? (Mill)
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Certain classes of moral rules. Moral obligation.
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What is the history of all hitherto existing society? (Marx)
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The history of class struggles.
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The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing what? (Marx)
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The instruments of production, relations of production and relations of society
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What is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority? (Marx)
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The proletarian movement
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In what simple sentence may the theory of the Communists be summed up? (Marx)
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Abolition of private property
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The bourgeoisie's very ideas are outgrowths of what conditions? (Marx)
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of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property.
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1803-1814
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Napoleonic wars
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1848
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The Communist Manifesto and Revolutions in Europe
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1859
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Darwin's Origin of Species
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1861-65
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The American Civil War
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