Lecture 2 Flashcards
1
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Machiavelli (what did he write, what is the idea behind it)
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il Principe, it is more important to be feared than loved and that rulers could justify certain immoral actions to pursue glory as a ruler.
2
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Thomas Hobbes
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Leviathan, the absolute power of the sovereign was ultimately justified by the consent of the governed
3
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Lord Acton
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great power tends to corrupt, powerful men are almost always bad men
3
Q
John Locke
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the government needs the consent of people
4
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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the social contract, the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.
5
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Charles de Montesquieueu
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the separation of power (trias politica),
