Identify the thinker Flashcards
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A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other things for his study
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince
Cruelty and Clemency
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince
Nature has made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind
HOBBES: The leviathan
Equality among men that that of strength. For prudence is but experience
HOBBES: The leviathan
For every man looks that his companion should value him at the same rate he sets upon himself
HOBBES: The leviathan
The nature of war consists not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto
HOBBES: The leviathan
Nothing can be unjust
HOBBES: The leviathan
Liberty each man has to use his own power, is the right of nature
HOBBES: The leviathan
Rights of the sovereign
HOBBES: The leviathan
Every private man is judge of good and evil actions
HOBBES: The leviathan
State all men are naturally in is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit
LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will of man
LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government
The earth and all that is therein is given to men for the support and comfort of their being
LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government
The great end of men’s entering into society being the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety
LOCKE: Two Treatises of Government
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right and obedience into duty
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men
War then is a relation, not between man and man, but between State and State
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men
Sovereignty for the same reason as makes it inalienable is indivisible
ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract and the Origin of Inequality Among Men
Man’s power was regarded as necessary, but also as highly dangerous
JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,
Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority is still vulgarly held indeed, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities
JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,
Liberty as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion
JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,
Greatest principle of happiness
JS MILL: On Utilitarianism, On Liberty,
