Exam 1 Flashcards
Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas
Timocracy
A form of government in which the rulers are motivated by ambition or a love of honor.
Oligarchy
A government resting on a valuation of property where the rich have power and the poor are deprived of it.
Democracy
A system of government by the whole population/all eligible members of a state.
Tyranny
Rule by one who has absolute power
Allegory of the Cave
A metaphor that explains the varying degrees of ignorance within a community, as well as the varying degrees of reasoning possessed by individuals.
Conjecture
Images such as shadows and reflections - shadows on the walls of the cave.
Understanding
Thoughts, images, and ideas such as the ideal square or cube - the journey up through the cave.
Exercise of Reason
After your studies you can see the perfect beauty, the perfect courage, and the perfect justice - Reaching the outside of the cave
Forms
For everything in existence, the perfect form of it exists in heaven.
Telos
The principal end - what anything becomes when its growth is complete as long as it can develop fully from its inner nature.A
Autarky
A self-sufficient economic unit that requires neither imports nor exports in satisfying the needs of all its members - everything the people need is in the polis
Insonomia
Equality before the law
Demokratia
Rule of the people
Polis
A form of government that includes all three classes of society: The rich, the power, the middle class
The City of God
Love for God, accepting God into your life and following God’s laws
The City of Man
Self-love, rejecting God and not following God’s law
Eternal Law
God’s mind, God’s plan for all eternity that is only known to God
Natural Law
The part of God’s plan that is revealed to man through reason.
Civil Law
Laws made by man that are based on the Old and New Testament.
