SOCIAL 30 FLASSHHCARDS PEOPLE UNIT 1

Question 1

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 1

Life is nasty, brutish and short

Question 2

John Locke

Answer 2

Father of liberalism - classical liberalism

Right to property

religious tolerance

Question 3

Jean-Jacques Rrousseau

Answer 3

‘Man is born free yet everywhere is in chains’

state of nature is generous and loving, society corrupts people

children should be raised without intervention by the state

Question 4

Voltaire

Answer 4

Separation of church and state

Question 5

Montesquieu

Answer 5

separation of powers

Question 6

invisible hand

Answer 6

forces which move the free market economy through individual self interest and freedom of prroduction

Question 7

Adam Smith

Answer 7

Father of economics

The Wealth of Nations - book on free market

Laissez faire economics

invisible hand

Question 8

John Stuart Mill

Answer 8

The greatest good for the greatest number (utilitarianism)

harm principle

Question 9

Utilitarianism

Answer 9

morality which advocates for the happiness and pleasure of all

aiming for the betterment of society as a whole

Question 10

harm principle

Answer 10

if your actions do not harm others you are free to do whatever you want.

Question 11

Mary Woolstencroft

Answer 11

opposed place of women in society

initially hopeful of the french revolution but became disillusioned

Question 12

Flora Tristan

Answer 12

rejected womens legal and social marginalization

especially women of the working class

worked with early socialists

Question 13

Olympe de Gouges

Answer 13

Questioned the motivations of the french revolutionaries

died at guillotine

A declaration of the rights of women and the female citizen

Question 14

Edmund Burke

Answer 14

Classical conservatism

property is important

thought french revolution is bad

american revolution is good

Question 15

enfranchisement

Answer 15

given rights to vote

Question 16

The Franchise

Answer 16

right to vote in public elections or referendums

Question 17

price system

Question 18

laissez faire ecconomics

Answer 18

no government involvement in economy -free market

Question 19

meritocracy

Answer 19

power in individuals with great amounts of capability and achievement

Question 20

classical conservatism

Answer 20

traditional moral principles

advocate for an elite to rule society due to classical liberalism

Question 21

laissez faire

Answer 21

let go economics, no government involvement