History 700 Unit 8 Political Science Test Study Guide
sanctions and symbols
outputs
The Prince
Machiavelli
The Republic
Plato
Political science is the study of ________________ of man's culture.
one part
Thomas Aquinas believed that the rule of _______________ laws are more important than human law.
natural
rule by a few
oligarchy
A new tax on real estate is an example of an:
output
the study of who gets what, when, and how
political science
Plato said that to correct the evils of government through rational thought was _____________.
possible
knowledge based on logical thought
rationalism
knowledge based on faith
fideism
Epistemology is the study of:
how we know what we know
Christian political thinkers added the concepts of __________ and _________ to the tradition of Western political thought.
justice liberty
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
no laws or government
anarchy
"The sky is blue" is an:
empirical statement
knowledge based on the senses
empiricism
The goal of political science is:
explanation and prediction
the goals of political science
explanation and prediction
"God created the heavens and the earth" is a statement of:
faith knowledge
What are the two things that all organized groups have in common to govern themselves?
laws leaders
We can be____________if we rely on a single means of knowledge.
misled
Hobbes called the imaginary time in history when man lived without man-made laws or government:
the state of nature
Augustine said that the unique event of the birth of Jesus Christ showed that the history of man ________________ cyclical.
was not
rule of laws and not of men
Aristotle
City of God
Augustine
Roman emperor at the time of Christ
Augustus
Who authored the earliest known written code of laws?
Hammurabi
Who said that the purpose of the state is to control the evil nature of man and compel him to act morally?
Hobbes
Two Treatises on Civil Government
John Locke
consent of the governed
John Locke
Who said that the purpose of the state is to protect the rights of the individual?
Locke
"render unto Caesar . . ."
Luke 20:25
Who said that the goal of a nation is to gain as much power and prestige as possible?
Machiavelli
laws of the Jews
Mosaic Code
_____________________ is accepting facts as knowledge because they fit like the pieces of a puzzle.
Rationalism