Chapter 4 Flashcards
Restricts the exercise of freedom
External coercion
Lack of constraint
Traditional freedom
Who “wrote” the Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Human beings are greedy and selfish and fundamentally grounded and stirred by craving for wealth and power
Hobbes’ Leviathan
Who wrote the Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
Summarizes Locke’s political ideas for a more civilized society grounded on natural rights and social contract
The second treatise
believed that men and women are created equal
Locke
Father of liberalism
Locke
who wrote the On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
“Individual freedom should only be restricted to forestall harm to others”
Mill
viewed freedom with minimal limits
Locke & Mill
Believed in the greater limits of exercising freedom
Hobbes
Self-mastery. Right possession and awareness of values to recognize the source of one’s strengths and weaknesses
Positive freedom
who wrote the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
Freedom is not about following one’s passions but controlling them
Kant
who wrote the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau