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21 Cards in this Set
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“Government, then, as the conservative in this matter understands it, does not begin with a vision of another, different and better world, but with the observation of the self-government practiced even by men of passion in the conduct of their enterprises; it begins in the informal adjustments of interests to one another which are designed to release those who are apt to collide from the mutual frustration of a collision.” (“On Being Conservative,” [1956])
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Edward Burke, Michael Oakeshott
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“Now because the Active Intellect emanates from the being of the First Cause [God], it can for this reason be said that it is the First Cause that brings about the revelation to this man through the mediation of the Active Intellect. The rule of this man is the supreme rule; all other human relationships are inferior to it and are derived from it.” (The Political Regime)
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Alfarabi
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“though this be a state of liberty, it is not a state of license.”
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Locke (State of Nature)
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“being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possession.”
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Locke (State of Nature)
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“Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, when his own self-preservation comes not in competition, ought, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind.”
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Locke (State of Nature)
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“for this labor being the unquestionable property of the laborer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.”
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Locke (Labor Theory of Value)
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“It is labor indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing… Of the products of the earth useful to the life of man… 99/100 are wholly to be put on account of labor.”
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Locke (Labor Theory of Value)
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“Nothing was made by God for man to despoil or destroy.”
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Locke (Limit on Property)
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“puts himself under an obligation, to every one of that society, to submit to the determination of the majority, and to be concluded by it.”
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Locke (Political Contract)
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"the people have “a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them. . . .”
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Locke (Right Protected by the Government)
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“the power of war and peace, leagues and alliances, and all the transactions; with all persons and communities without the commonwealth. . . .”
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Locke (Federative Power)
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“prerogative can be nothing but the people’s permitting their rulers to do several things, of their own free choice, where the law was silent, and sometimes too against the direct letter of the law, and their acquiescing in it when done so.” “prerogative is nothing but the power of doing public good without a rule”
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Locke (Executive Prerogative)
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“it is only a change of persons, but not of the forms and rules of government. “
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Locke (Usurpation)
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“All punishment which is not derived from necessity is tyrannical. The law is not a mere act of power; things in their nature indifferent are not within its power.”
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Rousseau (State of Nature)
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“Do good to yourself with as little evil as possible to others.”
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Rousseau (State of Nature)
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“the savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others. . . . always asking others what we are, and never daring to ask ourselves . . . we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful appearance, honor without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness.”
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Rousseau (Insecurity in the Social Man)
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“man is/was born free, and is always in irons”
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Rousseau
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"In such condition, there is no place for industry; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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Thomas Hobbes
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“mortifies his flesh and ruins his mind.” Thus people found fulfillment only through animal functions: “eating, drinking, procreating.”
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Marx (Alienation of Worker and Labor)
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"The degrading treatment workers receive makes them see work as repulsive slavery “under the rule, coercion, and yoke of another man.”
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Marx (Alienation of Man and Species)
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“this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property.”
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Marx (Revolution)
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