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56 Cards in this Set
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Plato wrote |
The Republic
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Plato said Men
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Are Not Equal
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Plato Believes
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Everyone gets equal opportunity
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Plato Doesn't Believe in
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Private Property because it causes jealousy
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Plato says civil disobedience
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is never allowed
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Plato says Slavery
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is permitted
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Plato's 3 people groups
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Workers, Guardians, Philosopher Kings
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What legitimizes a Government?
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What should they provide?
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What Constitutes Distributive Justice?
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The goods and services given
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What Constitutes Retributive Justice?
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the Punishments
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Plato Was
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Rationalistic
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Aristotle Was
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Imperical
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Monarchy Is good with
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a concerned monarch
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Monarchy always deteriorates into
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Tyranny
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Aristocracies are good with
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a body of aristocrats who are concerned with the people
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Aristocracies always decline to
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Oligarchy
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Democracy is
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The best we can hope to have
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Democracy sometimes degenerates to
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a mob
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Democracies happen best in
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Polis, City-state
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Polis is a
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Limited democracy
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limited democracy is administered by
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the middle and upper middle class
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Aristotle said
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It is the nature of human beings to be sociable and political
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Machiavelli wrote
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The Prince
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Realpolitik means
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Real Politics, (Real politics) rather than ideologies
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Machiavellie said
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Plato's Republic wasn't real politics
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Machiavelli's name is synonymous with
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Deceit
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2 kinds of princes
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Princes by blood and self-made princes
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2 descriptions of princes
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unarmed prince (Ghandi) and Armed Prince (Napolean)
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Machiavelli's best kind of prince
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Self-made Prince
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The biggest threat to the Prince
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The Grandee
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Thomas Hobbes was an advocate for
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Social Contract Theory
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Thomas Hobbes Wrote
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The Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes said
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Men are mostly equal
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State of nature
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No government, no morality
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Life in a state of nature is
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short, nasty, and brutish
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Thomas Hobbes says the "Sovereign" (Monarch) is needed to
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keep the peace and provide security
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If the sovereign doesn't do his job
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The people can revolt and show civil disobedience
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If the citizens revolt against the sovereign,
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They go back to a state of nature
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Rousseau wrote
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The origins of inequality, The Social Contract, and Emile
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Rousseau's books showed
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Man was born free but is now forever chained
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Rousseau said
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State of nature is a good place and man can be noble savages
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Rousseau's view of government
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The government should be administered by the general will of the people
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John Locke's view of the Social Contract
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Exists to Uphold Natural Rights
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John Locke says there are 2
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Treatises on Government
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John Locke says morality
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exists in a state of nature
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John Locke says everyone has
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Human and God Given Rights
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God Given Rights
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Natural Rights
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John Locke's view on the Government
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Exists to preserve natural rights and protect private property
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One acquires private property by
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mixing labor with the land
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John Locke was
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The most influential on American Politics
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John Rawls wrote
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A theory of Justice (Justice is Fairness)
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2 principles of Social Justice
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Equilibrium Principle and Difference Principle
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Equilibrium Principle
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Similar Liberty for Everyone
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Difference Principle
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the least prosperous must still benefit from the rich
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The Veil of Ignorance
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Unbias themselves and use the 2 principles to decide what was fair
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John Rawls developed
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The Original Position (The Veil of Ignorance) |
