PHIL 1010 Final Exam Questions And Answers Rated A+
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PHIL 1010 Final Exam Questions And Answers Rated A+
Machiavelli ANS 1.The prince
2. Marked the the paradigm shift from antiquity to modernity
3. Moved the source of political legitimacy from deveined to secular grounding
The Prince ANS Advises political rulers on how to acquire, preserve a...
PHIL 1010 Final Exam Questions And Answers Rated A+
Machiavelli ANS 1.The prince
2. Marked the the paradigm shift from antiquity to modernity
3. Moved the source of political legitimacy from deveined to secular grounding
The Prince ANS Advises political rulers on how to acquire, preserve and employ political power
In the Prince Machiavelli advises a Prince to: ANS 1. Hold onto power
2. Secure power
3. Making the populous believe
4. Establishing power by scattering and dividing
5. Winning them over with the exception that no on should be recognized as superior to the prince
Fortuna ANS Fortune is not good luck for Machiavelli but a malevolent, anthropomorphized
cosmological force that is the cause of political disorder. It is the antithesis to rational order
Virtue ANS It includes natural or acquired talents, skills and abilities but Moore generally refers
to an excellent trait or character
Generosity ANS It is good fro the prince to be considered generous but not in a way that his
generosity would harm his hold on power
Human nature ANS Machiavelli holds a very poor view of humans as wicked and wretched
Medeci Family ANS Noble utility family that ruled Florence for most of the Renaissance
Thomas Hobbes ANS Leviathan
Leviathans main goal ANS How to achieve peace in a polity
, Hobbes wrote: ANS 1.That men are generally equal in their power adding they also share basic
common needs.
2. From these two facts results the possibility of endless conflict of all against all
3. Proposed that men share instinct of self preservation which he called the right of nature
Hobbes argued: ANS Because men fear death and sick, safety and peace they are inclined to
leave the stat of nature being by devising an arrangement where they transfer some of their natural
rights in return for protection by resulting authority
Leviathan presents: ANS The first systematic account of social contract theory
Scientific methodology ANS Marks the paradigm shift from traditional thinking to modernity by
emphasizing the importance of observation and deductive reasoning in scientific endeavours
Hobbes Materialism ANS There are three kinds of bodies:
1. Physical bodies like stone
2.Human body
3. The body politic
He goes on to explain both physical and mental events as nothing more then bodies in motion
Hobbes state of nature ANS Hobbes hold that men are generally equal with respect to their
physical and mental ability. When this equality is couples with the possibility of competing to attain
the same goods there arises the possibility of endless conflict of all against all
Hobbes contract ANS A contract is a mutual transference of rights
Prohibition to the right to rebellion ANS The person to whom the individuals power is transferred
is called the sovereign and everybody else is his subjects. But since the contract is between individual
subjects not between them and sovereign to forfeit his power, or protest sovereigns power or accuses
the sovereign of injustice or punish the sovereign
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