Personal notes (3)

Question 1

upshot for political theory was the belief that ?

• shift from ?
  enlightenment: kings did not have divine right to rule, they must have ?

Answer 1

people were capable of governing themselves

• deontology to teleology
• knowledge

Question 2

locke: what book

- difference from hobbes: he saw people capable of ?

Answer 2

On Civil Government, The Second Treatise

-good and broad concern for fellow citizens

Question 3

John Milton : studying ?
government monopoly on ?
wrote article about more ?
he didn't secure ? 
Appealed to common in ? to abolish?
- said roman catholic churches books should be? so not a champion of ?

Answer 3

free speech

• printing
• liberal divorce laws
• censorship
• Aeropagiticia / prepublication censorship
• censored/ free speech

Question 4

Cato: pen name of ? 
wrote column popular with ? 
essay no. 15: the clearest statement yet of the political need for ?
essay no. 13: challenged 
truth can never be ? 
how many years until it became law

Answer 4

John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon
-radical whigs 
-free communication 
-libel law 
libel 
75 years

Question 5

american revolutionists wanted ?
federalists side:
democratic republican: 
John Thompson: 
what book 
-truth will out 
-foreshadowed 
-human beings start out as ? and respond to ? 
expression is manifestation of ? foolish of government to try to control ?

Answer 5

lockean idea of govt.

• john adams
• thomas jefferson and james madison
• the uncontrollable nature of the human mind
• argument
• Mill’s On liberty
• blank slates/ external stimuli and learn from experience
• thought/what people cannot (thoughts)

Question 6

Mill: if argument is right ?
if wrong should be ?
if right and wrong ?

Answer 6

should be heard

• refuted by better thinking
• both preceding principles come into play

Question 7

Dialectic: Hegelican Dialectic
progress achieved by an ? coming into collision with its ?
the result is

Answer 7

-idea/thesis / antithesis or opposite

synthesis (new thesis)

Question 8

Mill also argued for ?
concurrent majority: people affected by legislation would have to ?
-free flow of info especially for

Answer 8

• minority rights in majority rule
• concur with it even if they were minority
• minority rights

Question 9

Journalism can bring harm: 
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-little attention paid to privacy before ? 
Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis 
-property expanded from ?
-privacy parallels ? 
-privacy allows individuals to 
-security allows ?
the global war on terror in 2001 =
-most pressing reason for moral journalism ?

Answer 9

• invasion of privacy
• high speed newspaper presses and halftone process
• concrete to abstract (life liberty and pursuit of property)
• security laws
• to keep secrets
• government to
• more security laws
• to secure press freedoms for later generations