Political Thinkers

Question 1

Who attended Plato’s philosophical school?

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

Aristotle supervised the ______’s early education

Answer 2

Alexander the Great

Question 3

He was one of the greatest and most influential thinkers of all Greek philosophers

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Title of Aristotle’s political work

Answer 4

Nichomachean Ethics and Politics

Question 5

What is finding one’s “function”?

Answer 5

When any person is given the liberty to pursue his purpose in life, he will achieve great happiness and fulfillment

Question 6

In Aristotle’s political work, citizens should be given the ______ and to pursue ______

Answer 6

Right to happiness; their dreams and goals

Question 7

He attended the University of Naples and was born in Italy 1224AD

Answer 7

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 8

Title of work: message to Gentiles about accepting the doctrines of Christianity

Answer 8

Summa Contra Gentiles

Question 9

Title of work: one of the best medieval treatises explaining Christian theology

Answer 9

Summa Theologica

Question 10

Aquinas’s medieval treaty was ______ and ______ 8 years later

Answer 10

Halted; never completed

Question 11

Whose writing: “No law can justifiably contradict God’s teaching on virtue”

Answer 11

St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 12

Whose writings ironically inspired some of the most oppressive gov’ts?

Answer 12

Friedrich Engels

Question 13

Engels was born in

______ in 1820, and so involved in his ______ work that he was forced to flee from the country

Answer 13

Prussia; revolutionary

Question 14

Whose writings: “Working class should revolt if necessary to get rights and benefits they deserve”

Answer 14

Friedrich Engels

Question 15

Title of Engel’s solo work

Answer 15

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Question 16

Engels collaborated with Marx in ______, and helped edit Marx’s ______

Answer 16

Communist Manifesto; Das Kapital

Question 17

When was the Communist Manifesto published?

Answer 17

1848

Question 18

Basic Theme of Communist Manifesto

Answer 18

Proletariat will rise up against bourgeoisie and overthrow “capitalism”

Question 19

After a brief period of “dictatorship of the proletariat,” a ______ would emerge

Answer 19

Classless society

Question 20

How many steps necessary to achieve communism and destroy free enterprise society?

Answer 20

10 steps

Question 21

(T/F) Step 10: Gov’t controls education (no more private education)

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Father of Political Science

Answer 22

Aristotle

Question 23

Father of Modern Political Science

Answer 23

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 24

What was Machiavelli’s approach to politics?

Answer 24

Based his theories on humanistic logic instead of religion (medieval)

Question 25

What were the three political writing of John Milton?

Answer 25

(1) The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, (2) The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Commonwealth, and (3) Of Reformation in England

Question 26

Marx wrote about his disagreement with the free enterprise system in what writing?

Answer 26

Das Kapital

Question 27

What is the title of Machiavelli’s writing published in 1532?

Answer 27

The Prince

Question 28

Machiavelli’s writing approved the use of _____ upon dissenters and cruelty and deceitfulness to _____ .

Answer 28

Force; maintain the balance of power

Question 29

Milton did much to promote radical reform against the?

Answer 29

Monarchy

Question 30

Machiavelli’s Theory: State - ______; Ruler - ______; Subjects - ______

Answer 30

Living organism; head; rest of the body

Question 31

The 2 Marx works where he established himself as radical in approach to gov’t

Answer 31

Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

Question 32

What was the pamphlet that laid down the groundwork for Marxism?

Answer 32

Communist Manifesto

Question 33

(Marx) FE system accumulates ______; ______ becomes _______

Answer 33

Wealth; wealth; misery

Question 34

What was the most powerful economic system?

Answer 34

Free enterprise system

Question 35

Milton’s two English literary classics

Answer 35

Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes

Question 36

Who was the prolific writer of the 17th century?

Answer 36

John Milton

Question 37

Milton’s 2 works that supported the Commonwealth and Cromwell Parliament

Answer 37

(1) Of Reformation in England and (2) The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Commonwealth

Question 38

Which of Milton’s writings stated that people had the right to select and eliminate rulers?

Answer 38

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates