Key thinkers big man John loke Flashcards

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When was John Locke born and died

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1632 Somerset

1704

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When was the English civil War (John Locke)

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1642-1651

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What side was Locke’s farther on during the English civil war

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Parliamentary forces

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4
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Where was Lock when Charles 1 was executed

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Across the road

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What type of Liberal was John Locke

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Classical Liberal

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Who was Locke’s patreon

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Antony Ashly Cooper - first Earl of Shafturbry

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What was John Locke’s book written in 1667 and published in 1689

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Freedom of Belief “A letter concerning toleration”

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What was the other book published in 1689 by John Locke

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Two Treatises of Government

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What is the state of nature

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When there were no humans but apes

the hypothetical life of people before societies came into existence

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What was John Locke’s view of State of nature

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Sate of nature was ok therefore any government that is worse than it, it’s the citizens obligation to overthrow the government and create a new one

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What was Locke’s counter part on the state of nature named

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Thomas Hobbes

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What was Thomas Hobbes view on State of nature

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‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’

state of nature is a miserable state of war in which none of our important human ends are reliably realizable

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What was John Locke’s book called published in 1683

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Some thoughts concerning education

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What did Locke think about experience & education

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everything that we know today is based of experience, behavioural changes happed because of our experience

Latin music and arts should be changed to maths science

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What did Locke thing about expericne

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everything that we know today is based of experience, behavioural changes happed because of our experience

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When was Mary Wollstonecraft born and died

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1759

1797

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When was the French revolution (Mary Wollstonecraft)

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1789-1799

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What type of liberal was Mary Wollstonecraft

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Classical liberal

19
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What where Mary’s wall stone crafts books called

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Vindication of the rights of men 1790

Vindication of the rights of women 1791

20
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When was JS Mill born (John Stuart mill)

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Born - 1806

Died - 1873

21
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What was important about JS Mill

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He was the link between classical and modern liberalism

22
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What was JS Mill’s book

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On Liberty 1859

23
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What was J.S. Mill’s thought on society

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Utilitarian thought, Rational thought

24
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What does Utilitarianism mean

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Greatest good for the greatest number

25
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What does negative Liberty mean

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Absence of restraint

if its not specified as a law its not illegal

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What was J.S. Mill’s ‘Harm Principle’

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Individuals actions have to be tolerated (by the state) as long as it doesn’t harm others

27
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What does J.S. Mills birth and death mean.

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Lived through the latter parts of the industrial revolution and lots of social change.

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What is Classical Liberalism

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All about the Individual and what they can do by them selves without state intervention

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What is Modern Liberalism

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All about masses and how they should not be denied Liberty’s
(Ideas change as times goes on the approach after industrial revolution sides towards modern)

30
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John Rawls Birth & death

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Born - 1921

Death - 2002

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John Rawls life events

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Great depression 1929 – 1933
WW2 1939 - 1945 (holocaust)
Cold war 1947 – 1991
‘Swinging 60’s’ - Rule breaking

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what type of liberal was John Rawls

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Modern liberal

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What was John Rawls book published in 1971

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A Theory of Justice 1971

34
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what did John Rawls book argue

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Core principle of equality

Not just under the constitution & Law but greater social & economic equality

All lives could be fulfilled and rich within an enabling state with public spending

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What was the Veil of Ignorance

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Before Birth no one knows who they are. They lack clues as to their class, their privileges, their disadvantages, or even their personality.

If you were to make a society within the veil of ignorance you would make it fair

e.g. Slicing a cake and your have the last slice, you would make it as fair as possible

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When was Betty Friedan Alive

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born 1921

died 2006

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Betty Friedan life events

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Great depression 1929 – 1933
WW2 1939 - 1945 (holocaust)
Cold war 1947 – 1991
‘Swinging 60’s’ - Rule breaking

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What was Betty Friedan’s book published 1963

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Feminine Mystique

39
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What was Betty Friedan’s main thoughts

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Society is responsible for most of the problems about equality with gender, Women under achieve due to society.