Exam 2

Question 1

why did sir Francis Bacon dislike Coke?

Answer 1

he lost in courtship

Question 2

who said “ that the king ought not to be under any man, but under God and the law.”

Answer 2

Coke quoting Henry Bracton

Question 3

who was a staunch defender of the king’s positions?

Answer 3

Francis Bacon

Question 4

who played a prominent role in drafting the petition of right of 1628, a classic statement of certain “rights of Englishmen” no taxes imposed without parliamentary consent, no subject to be imprisoned without cause, soldiers not to be quartered in the houses of citizens, and martial law not to be imposed except in time of war?

Answer 4

Coke

Question 5

what case claimed the power of judicial review?

Answer 5

Dr. Bonham’s Case

Question 6

Gunpowder plot

Answer 6

Guy Fawkes and his conspirators planned to blow up parliament.

Question 7

what is the command of the sovereign?

Answer 7

law

Question 8

theory of natural right

Answer 8

obligation of subjects lasts only as long as the sovereign is able to protect them

Question 9

what did Hobbes claim as just the opinions of man?

Answer 9

higher law

Question 10

multitudo/populus

Answer 10

the multitude of citizens is not the people

Question 11

rex est populus

Answer 11

identification

Question 12

the people is sovereign on the condition of what?

Answer 12

of dividing itself, of splitting itself into a ‘multitude’ and a people’

Question 13

when does Hobbes say that the people dissolve into a confused multitude?

Answer 13

the very instant that the people choose the sovereign

Question 14

in a democracy what happens when a council has been constituted?

Answer 14

when a council has been constituted

Question 15

civitas

Answer 15

leviathan or commonwealth or state

Question 16

salus populi

Answer 16

the people’s safety

Question 17

what is an artificial reason and will?

Answer 17

equity and laws

Question 18

by whom are all things needful for it to know are suggested unto it, re the memory?

Answer 18

counsellors

Question 19

what is the epistemological basis for Hobbes’s paradigm shift?

Answer 19

he proposes a new Copernican revolution: t systematic development of a modern science of man.

Question 20

who was a bridge between the ancients and the moderns?

Answer 20

Machiavelli

Question 21

who is in the tradition of British empiricism?

Answer 21

Hobbes

Question 22

who maintains that all knowledge is derived originally from sense experiences rather than form innate ideas?

Answer 22

Hobbes

Question 23

because Hobbes is a positivist what does he try to sweep away??

Answer 23

traditional learning

Question 24

what does Hobbes dismiss as mere opinion?

Answer 24

religion and political thought

Question 25

summum bonum

Answer 25

final end

Question 26

because man desires felicity what is in man?

Answer 26

a perpetual and restless desire for power

Question 27

according to Allan Bloom what "constitutes a change in our view of things moral and political as the one that took place when Christianity replaced Greek and Roman paganism"?

Answer 27

the new language of value relativism

Question 28

who wrote "The Closing of the American MInd"

Answer 28

Allan Bloom

Question 29

union

Answer 29

states united

Question 30

federal

Answer 30

consisting in a compact between parties, particularly between states or nations; founded on alliance by contract or mutual agreement

Question 31

new meaning of union

Answer 31

a consolidated body, as the USA are often called the "union" (post-civil war)

Question 32

Scruton: what did Hobbes believe was necessary to add value to a contract?

Answer 32

enforcement. otherwise people would not follow through

Question 33

who suggested that Christianity is in the highest degree historical and represented a revelation of God in history.

Answer 33

Schelling

Question 34

logos

Answer 34

signified speech or reason

Question 35

what are attributes of speech, not of things themselves?

Answer 35

true and false

Question 36

how do you overthrow a republic?

Answer 36

redefine the language in their constitution

Question 37

weltanschauung

Answer 37

worldview

Question 38

legibus solutus

Answer 38

unbound by laws of the kingdom

Question 39

who said "only government, as the representative of unity of the people is the true sovereignty"?

Answer 39

Hobbes

Question 40

what is Machiavelli an architect of?

Answer 40

ideas

Question 41

what are the 2 ways of striving for mastery?

Answer 41

by law or by force

Question 42

does Machiavelli discover or manufacture the nature form which he draws his precepts?

Answer 42

he manufactures it

Question 43

automata

Answer 43

engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch

Question 44

fiat

Answer 44

let us make man

Question 45

nature of artificial man consider:

Answer 45

1. the matter thereof, and the artificer, both which is man 2. how, and by what covenants it is made; what are rights and just power or authority of a sovereign; and what it is that preserveth 3. what is a christian commonwealth 4. what is kingdom of darkness