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Test 4 Flashcards

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Anabaptists of Munster

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Took over the German town of Munster because they believed in the imminence of a new heavenly order.
Instituted a perfect Community
Resembled Totalitarianism

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Search for Magical Power

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Aspired many schools of thought.

God is the creation rather than the external creator of it.

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Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson

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Saw the history of humanity as a progression of stages of evolution.
Believed that people had evolved from nomads to a pastoral society which gave way to agriculture and became modern society.

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Hegel

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German Philosopher
Revealed that history actually exhibited a rational structure. (history progressed)
Solved the riddle of human existence.

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Adam Smith’s “invisible hand”

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The belief that each step that was taken to be a higher form of civilization was guided by this invisible hand.

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Marx Scientific Socialism

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Claimed to be the first to discover this ideology.
The knowledge of the human condition.
Requires those who possess knowledge to use revolution.

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Ideaologies

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Doctrines which promise an earthly liberation.
Invented by French Philosopher, Destutt de Tracy.
Term with which to express contempt for impractical intellectuals.

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Destutt de Tracy

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Invented Ideology.

Ideology Clarified the understanding by bringing concepts to the test of experience and discarding those that failed.

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Marx on Ideology

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Stated it was a term to describe the false beliefs of those who had failed to transcend their social situation.
AKA a philosophical hygiene revealing truth and the very falsity that needed to be cleansed.

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Ideaology

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Can be used without serious confusion as referring both to the truth and also to all other beliefs which are judged to be false in terms of that belief.

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Tripartite Structure of Ideology

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Oppression, Struggle, Liberation

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Assumption of Polotics

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Assumes that any state will contain many ways of life.

Society will necessarily be imperfect.

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Abolition of Property

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NOT the distinguishing feature of Communism.

Abolition of bourgeois property is the distinguishing feature.

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Does wage-labor create any property for the laborer?

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No, it creates capital.

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Capital

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Property that exploits wage-labor.

Cannot increase except upon condition of getting a new supply of wage-labor.

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Proletariat

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Uses its political supremacy to wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie.
Also to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state.

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17
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Revolutionary Measures

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page 202

will be different in different countries.

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John Rawls

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Best summarized the differences between traditional justice and “social justice.”
“Fair” equality of opportunity=”formal” equality of opportunity.
“Undeserved inequalities call for redress.”

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Social Justice

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The redressing of the vast range of undeserved inequalities found everywhere.
Going beyond the traditional justice of presenting each individual with the same rules and standards.

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20
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Joseph Schumpeter

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“The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.”

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What people will do for ideals

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Lie, Character Assassination

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Francois Furet

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French Historian
Worlds Preeminent authority on the French Revolution.
Provides striking insights into the political tensions of democratic capitalism.

23
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Incompatible ideas

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Cult of volition

Science of History (certainties of historical science)

24
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2 Political Weaknesses of the Bourgeois Regime

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  1. Egalitarian Outbidding

2. Liberal democracy’s moral indeterminacy

25
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3-fold liberation of the Bourgeois city

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  1. tyranny
  2. from the oppression of conscience.
  3. from the pervasive material poverty of the premodern world.
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Psychological Corollaries

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  1. Self-doubt

2. Self-hatred.

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Origin of Leading Marxists

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Originally came from bourgeois money.

28
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Political Moralism

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The project of replacing the national sovereign state with the emerging international.

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Internationalism

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Commonly seen as an inevitable, desirable trend.

Answer to the problem of war.

30
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Politics; the business of the powerful

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Essential to the idea of the state.

31
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Political Morailism v Independence of Citizens

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Independence of Citizens is a barrier to Political Moralism’s project of moralizing the world.

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Dilemma of Modern Politics

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Social justice v. Freedom
Moralizing the human condition is only possible if we can make the world correspond to some conception of social justice.
Justice for the price of freedom

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Political Problems reinterpreted as Managerial Problems

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Human beings, Managers of equality, and death of politics.

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Poor and Dependancy

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The lever by which governments accumulate power over everyone.

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The new sense of politics

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No Limits

36
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Consequences of the no limits politics

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Discovery of Dependency

Charity is expanded, marxist version of christian doctrine, and new social altruism ideal.

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First Principles

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Men are immeasurably interested in aquiring fixed ideas of God, the soul, and their general duties.
Doubt of these principles would condemn them to disorder and impotence.

38
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Doubt

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When the religion of a people is destroyed this gets a hold of the higher powers of the intellect and half paralyzes all the others.

39
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Advantage of Religion

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To inspire diametrically contrary principles.

Found in the most false and dangerous religions.

40
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Despotism

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Suspicious by nature.

Makes every effort to keep men separate.

41
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Free Institutions

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Tendency of equality to keep men asunder.

42
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General indifference

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Conceived from general difference.

43
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Opulent Citizens

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Constantly keep on easy terms with the lower classes.

Listen and speak to them everyday.

44
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Private interest

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Directs the greater part of human actions in the US but does not regulate them all.

45
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Public Welfare

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Americans make great/real sacrifices to this.

46
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Novel Features of Despotism

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  1. Innumerable multitude of men trying to procure the petty pleasure with which they glut their lives.
  2. Tutelary Power: absolute, minute. seeks to keep men in perpetual childhood.
47
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Network of small complicated rules (red tape)

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Minute and uniform.

Most original and energetic persons cannot rise above to crowd.

48
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Conflicting passions

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  1. Want to be led

2. Wish to remain free

49
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Representation

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To create this in every country is to diminish the evil that extreme centralization may produce, but not to get rid of it.

50
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Subjection in minor affairs

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Breaks out every day and is felt by the whole community indiscriminately.
Does not derive from resistance.

51
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Short-lived Monster

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A constitution republican in its head and ultra monarchial in all its other parts always appeared to be…

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