Machiavelli, Marx, And Milton Flashcards
Judges 2:19
Bible tells of the need for a continually strong godly leadership to prevent people from going astray
Many governments choose not to?
Follow biblical principles
Good God-honoring leadership can?
Forge a nation into a moral power
Retired Army General Schwartzkopf
Said that he learned as much from mistakes of leaders as from their victories
Learned as much from avoiding bad as imitating good?
Schwartzkopf
Lived during Italian Renaissance?
Niccolo Machiavelli
Father of Modern Political Science?
Machiavelli
_____ based their political theories on ____ logic
Machiavelli, humanistic
Medieval approach to politics?
View it in light of religion
Presented state as living organism?
Machiavelli, ruler as head and subjects as rest of body
Reputation as being crpruel and heartless in The Prince?
Machiavelli
The Prince
Published in 1532
A ruler may do anything necessary to keep body healthy- even if he had to be cruel and deceitful in order to maintain a balance of power
Excessive force upon _____ was encouraged by ____
Dissenters, Machiavelli
Karl Marx
German social scientist
Professional revolutionary of 19th century
Born and raised in Prussia
Communism and socialism
Two most powerful types of government in past century
Came from writings of Karl Marx
Attended unit wrist of Bonn?
Marx
Worked with Engels to write two works which established him as a radical in approach to government?
Marx, Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital
Marx, in Communist Manifest, claimed that history could be seen as a series of?
Battles between working and upper middle classes
Real dream would be achieved when? According to Karl Marx
Working class overthrew upper classes
Das Kapital
Marx’s view on the free enterprise system
Free enterprise system flaws pointed out by Marx?
Continued series of inflationary periods and depression would make free enterprise useless
Accumulation of wealth from system only made more misery because nobody knew how to spend wealth wisely
Marx maintained that only a true good society would come when?
The proletariat would be able to overthrow the bourgeoisie
John Milton
Prolific writer of 17th century
Wrote English literary classics
Influential political writer
Involved in politics of 1600s and did much to promote radical reform against the monarchy?
John Milton
Heard of serious unrest between King Charles I and the Puritans back in home country of England?
Milton
King _____ had joined forces with ____ of the Church of England and fought the ___ over the ____ of the church and state
Charles I, bishops, Puritans, policies
1642?
Civil war broke out between puritans and King Charles I
Puritans were led by Oliver Cromwell, they won.
Milton spent next ___ years after the civil war in favor of a ruling party other than a _____
20, monarchy
Milton’s support of the Commonwealth and the Cromwell Parliament was evident in his writings:?
Of Reformation in England
The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Commonwealth
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
People’s right to select and eliminate rulers
____ political writings gave insight into a citizen who deserved to live without a _____ in a country where the people had a right to ___
Milton’s, monarch, speak out
Result of working class overthrowing the upper class, according to Marx?
A classless society in which nobody would have the rule, the factories and major corporations would be owned publicly, and the common people would be in charge of their own destiny
Most powerful economic system ever made?
Free enterprise system
Milton’s English literary classics?
Paradise Lost
Samson Agonistes
Marx wrote about his disagreement with the free enterprise system in?
Das Kapital
Machiavelli’s The Prince?
It approved of the use of force upon dissenters
It approved cruelty and deceitfulness to maintain the balance of power
Milton was involved with the politics of the 1600s and did much to promote radical reform against the?
Monarchy
The bible teaching of good leadership keeping people from going astray in found in?
Judges 2:19
Communism
Political system of collective ownership of property; population is of one class
Communist manifesto
Book by Marx urging workers to overthrow upper classes; textbook for communism and socialism; laid groundwork for Marxism
Dissenter
One who disagrees or has a difference of opinion
Free enterprise system
Political system in which the government allows citizens to own private business for profit
Humanistic
Secular rather than Godly; promoted during the Renaissance; putting more emphasis on man’s will
Of Reformation in England
John Milton’s writing on the preference of a commonwealth over a monarchy
Principles
A basic rule or standard
Renaissance
A revival of art and learning arising between the 14th and 16th centuries
Social scientist
One who studies individual relationships within society and relationships to society
Socialism
System where political power and property is to be shared by the whole population
