Identify the Thinker and their Work Flashcards
Emphasis on the natural law, rational spirit, and humanism or individualism
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
Steam, Factory, Use of Machines, and Increase in Production contributed to the Industrial Revolution
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
“It is not from benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their self interest, We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantage”
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
Invisible hand whereby the private interests and passions of men are led in the direction which is most agreeable to the interests of the whole society therefore there is no need for central planning
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
The Laws of the market are self regulating
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
Individual self interest of similarly motivated individuals will result in competition
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
The division of labor is dependent on the extent of the market (its size)
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
Employing capital as near as home supports the domestic industry and directs it to produce more value
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
The things with the greatest value in use, usually has no value in exchange
SMITH: The Wealth of Nations
The landlords’ interests are important to society
RICARDO: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Workers are addicted to the domestic delights of society
RICARDO: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Differential Rent increases the natural price of labor compared to market price
RICARDO: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Believes men is alienated because he could not understand nature, he was also talking about the social world, we are alienated from our true selves
People should understand our true circumstances
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Men are not naturally thinkers, we are naturally creators. We must change and act upon this change. Men are alienated from their true selves because they no longer change what they want to change.
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Man should not have no other god but himself. This is true humanity incarnated in the communist man
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
The various stages in the economic order represent an advance in terms of exploitation from the various eras. All of them reveal a relationship of exploitation of the ruling group.
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
“the modern bourgeois society has established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of old ones”
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Capitalism bears the seeds of its own destruction. It creates its own gravediggers
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Competition will weed out the members of the petite bourgeoisie and this will increase the number of proletariats
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Monogamy and marriage will disappear and relationships will be based on affection.
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
Religion will disappear because nobody will miss it, there is no more suffering, religion is to justify suffering
MARX AND ENGELS: The Communist Manifesto
There is order in a social relationship when people acknowledge that there are rules governing that relationship
WEBER: Theory of Social and Economic Organization
The existence of legitimate orders is guaranteed by self interest and disinterested motives (affections, rational belief in legitimate orders, and religious attitudes)
WEBER: Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Concerns survival of inherited characteristics
Struggles or competitions over the long term results in selection of those who possess personal qualities important to succeed
WEBER: Theory of Social and Economic Organization
It does not involve conflict, but the use of certain types of behavior or possession of personal qualities more favorable in procuring advantages, wit, strength, mental ability, demagoguery, flattery, loyalty to superiors, adaptability, unusual gifts
WEBER: Theory of Social and Economic Organization
Obedience is due to the impersonal order
WEBER: Theory of Social and Economic Organization