Quotes

Question 1

There is nothing on earth to compare with him.

Answer 1

Thomas Hobbes, the leviathan

Question 2

They are all part of one body but meron isang gumagawa ng decision

Answer 2

Thomas Hobbes, the leviathan

Question 3

We give up our rights to govern ourselves in order for us to have peace; by doing so, we authorize them to govern us to avoid war

Answer 3

Thomas Hobbes, the leviathan

Question 4

Power of state:
1. inalienable
2. indivisible
3. infallible
4. absolute

Answer 4

Thomas Hobbes, the leviathan

Question 5

Where the law is silent, there is liberty

Answer 5

Thomas Hobbes, the leviathan

Question 6

What is human nature and state of nature for John Locke?

Answer 6

Free, equal, independent, natural rights to property, rational but partial to themselves

State of freedom, equality, independence, inconvenience, war

Question 7

Civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniences of the state of nature… political power was legitimate only when it was used to pursue the goal for which it was created, the protection of private property

Answer 7

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 8

the right to revolt; There are two freedoms of men: enjoyment of the natural right to property and

Answer 8

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 9

Human nature for Rousseau

State of nature for rousseau

Answer 9

free, equal, independent, noble savage, rational

state of freedom, equality, independence, bliss and ignorance

Question 10

Give the 6 compositions in rousseau

Answer 10

human nature
state of nature
civil society and the state
social contract
free state
freedoms of men

Question 11

It is reason that engenders self-love and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes him keep aloof from everything that can trouble or afflict him; it is philosophy that destroys his connection with other men; it is in consequence of her dictates that he mutters to himself at the sight of another distree

Answer 11

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 12

The freedom then of man and liberty of acting according to his own will is grounded on having reason

Answer 12

Locke, second treatise of civil government

Question 13

Series of accidents led to the founding of the present situation of man

Answer 13

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 14

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. How has this change come about? I do not know. What can render it legitiamte?

Answer 14

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 15

Free state of social contract

everyone directly participates in the making of the law
everyone must obey the law…

Answer 15

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 16

force them to be free

Answer 16

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 17

Domains of self-regarding

Answer 17

J.S. Mill, on Liberty

Question 18

Progress demands that society permits as much freedom in action as possible; that principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection

Answer 18

J.S. Mill, on Liberty

Question 19

That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant

Answer 19

J.S. Mill, on Liberty

Question 20

Whatever is expedient for government to do

Answer 20

J.S. Mill, Principles of political economy and taxation (functions of government in general)

Question 21

give three functions of government

Answer 21

Defense, enforcement of will and contracts, law on property

Question 22

And thus in the state of nature one man comes by a power over another but yet no absolute or arbitrary power to use a criminal

Answer 22

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 23

Civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniences of the state of nature

Answer 23

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 24

Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that the nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, thereby makes it his property

Answer 24

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 25

Where there is no law, there is no freedom

Answer 25

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 26

Men being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent

Answer 26

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 27

Power that every individual gave the society when he entered into it can never revert to the individuals again as long as the society lasts

Answer 27

John Locke, Second Treatise of civil government

Question 28

strongest being always in the right

Answer 28

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 29

the problem is to find a form of association which defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before

Answer 29

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 30

Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under supreme direction of the general will, and, in our capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole

Answer 30

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 31

What man loses by social contract is his natural liberty; what he gains is civil liberty

Answer 31

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 32

will of all and general will

Answer 32

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 33

social compact sets up among citizens an equality of such a kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

Answer 33

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 34

laws are only the conditions of civil association

Answer 34

Rousseau, the social contract

Question 35

that men perform their convenants made

Answer 35

Hobbes, Leviathan

Question 36

commonwealth, sovereign, monarchy

Answer 36

Hobbes, Leviathan