History 700 Unit 8 Political Science Test Study Guide

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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


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