Model States (Ch. 3) Flashcards
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Utopia
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Any visionary system embodying perfect political and social order.
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Dystopia
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A society whose creators set out to build the perfect political order only to discover that they cannot remain in power except through coercion and by maintaining a ruthless monopoly over the means of communication.
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Plato’s Utopia
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Philosopher-King is the ruler, and the guardians follow as well as the tradesman. Hierarchy based on amount of wisdom
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Marx’s Utopia
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This utopia is one with a “classless society”. (Eliminate Private Property and division of labor, also eliminate social inequality)
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Bacon’s Utopia
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Based on investigations, research, and experiments (create advanced form of medicine)