Political Theory Final Exam

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John Locke's State of Nature (2)

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1) Basic human drive=preservation of the species
2)Basic Human freedoms/rights=Eqaulity and Liberty: "we are born free as we are born rational"

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Law of Nature (2)

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1) entails obligations to other people
2) You should not harm others

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True liberty is attained ___________

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rationally

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John Locke and property (5)

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1) Nature mixed with our labor is private propety
2) Human labor improves the value of property
3) Even if you dont own it yourself, you do own your labor
4)Teleology of nature: to serve your needs
5) One can accumulate property as long as none is wasted and there is sufficient for others-property can not be wasted

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Money becomes a means of ______________ (locke)

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Overcoming the spoilage condition because it does not decay and can be horded

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Suprplus Economy (Locke)

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There is incentive to produce more

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Subsistence Economy (Locke)

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The goal is to meet the basic needs

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Money leads to _________ (Locke)

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Inequality

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The primary purpose of government is __________ (Locke)

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the protection of property, or "life, liberty, and the estate.

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Two forms of consent (Locke)

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1) Express
2) Tacit

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Express consent (Locke)

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stronger form of consent to be a citizen

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Tacit consent (Locke)

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consenting by using the government's resources, residing in a country

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Is based on the law of nature(Locke)

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Legitimacy

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Liberalism: what is it, what is its function, purpose (5/Locke)

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1) Consists of protection of the people from government of others interference into the private realm
2) The protection of private property
3)Rugged Individualism
4) Reasons for the Government
5)Liberalism

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Reasons for Government (3 Locke)

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1) You need stable, written laws
2) You need an impartial judge
3) You need someone to enforce

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Natural Man (Rousseau)

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1) Instict rules
2) Vigor
3) Strength
4) Pity
5) Love of self

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Society-these things become corrupted when we get into society (Rousseau)

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1) Reason
2) Speech
3) Sociability
4) Time: regulates man
5) Property: love of ones self becomes the love of property

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Golden Age (3 Rousseau)

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1) Basic Agriculture
2) The family
3) Basic divisions of labor

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The Golden Age evolves into

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1) Proprety
2) Money
3) Inequality
4) State of perpetual war

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False Projectors

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1) Hobbes and Locke are not taking into account the way we evolve into the state of nature
2) Rousseau offers a "critical history of the present"
3) Locke- state of nature is worse than modern society
4) Rousseau- modern society is worse off than the state of nature

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Social Contract- Locke vs. Rsousseau

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Locke- its about representation
Rousseau-Its about direct democracy

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Citoyen (Rousseau) vs. Bourgeois (locke)

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Citoyen- they as what is good for all of society rather than what each of us want
Bourgeois- They think democracy is the aggregate of individuals want

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Two major problems with capitalistic society (Marx)

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1) Stifles human emancipation
2) Creates alienation

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Human emancipation vs. Political emancipation

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1) A problem with society is that there has been a movement to private political emancipation over human emancipation
2) The state should somehow be emancipated from religion. Human emancipation goes further than the principles of non-interference
3) Once everyone is economically equal human emancipation occurs

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Alienation from product

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There is a disconnect between the product and the laborer. Assembly line dilemma

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Alienation from the process

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There is unskilled production. You cannot develop your labor to its potential.

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Alienation from species being

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Humans are social creatures. There exists authentic activities that bring one inot the social world

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Alientaions from others

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Broken down into two classes- workers or capitalists. view each other as competitors for jobs rather than as friends and brothers. introduces the hierarchy of labor

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Alienation from nature

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No longer exists a romantic view of nature. nature is used for exploitative value

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Communist Manifesto

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Capitalism is a necessary stage in the dialectical material progression towards socialism

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Crisis Theory (Marx)

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1) Increase competition creates pressure on wages which leads to the rationalization of protection
2) unemployment the leveling of the classes
3) As the majority enter poverty and class distinctions intensify
4) With there being no one to purchase capitalist goods the capitalist system suffers and becomes vulnerable
5) The unified working boor develop class consciousness and initiate revolution

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Lack of Sustainability (Marx)

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The capitalist system is incapable of sustainint itself due to the insaitable desire for resources (capital)