Identify the thinker and their work Flashcards

(38 cards)

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By making these laws, they define what is right based on their own interest

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PLATO: The Republic

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Right is in a sense of matter of interest but when you add to the stronger party

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PLATO: The Republic

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3
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Ruling as an art

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PLATO: The Republic

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4
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Be just means serving the interest of the stronger who rules at the cost of the subject who obeys where’s injustice is just the reverse

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PLATO: The Republic

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5
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His principles will not allow him to help himself from public funds

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PLATO: The Republic

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6
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Right as I said at first simply what serves the interest of the stronger party

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PLATO: The Republic

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7
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The guardians of temperament

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PLATO: The Republic

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8
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Censorship of literature

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PLATO: The Republic

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9
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Selection of Rulers: The Guardians’ manner of living

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PLATO: The Republic

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10
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The first quality to come into view in our state seems to be its wisdom

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PLATO: The Republic

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11
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Three parts of the soul

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PLATO: The Republic

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12
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Virtues of the Individual

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PLATO: The Republic

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13
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Allegory of the cave

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PLATO: The Republic

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14
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Democracy and the Democratic Man

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PLATO: The Republic

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ARISTOTLE:

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16
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Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

17
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There are many kinds both of rulers and subjects

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

18
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They distinguish freedom and slavery, noble and human birth

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

19
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Three alternatives are conceivable:

  1. All things
  2. Nothing in common
  3. Some things in common and some not
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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

20
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Property: Equality or Inequality

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

21
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

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All men cling to justice f some kind, but their conceptions are imperfect and they do not express the whole idea

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty, which according to the common opinion of men, can only be enjoyed in such a state

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

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Constitutional government. A fusion of oligarchy and democracy is described as polity or constitutional government

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ARISTOTLE: The Politics

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well administered
ARISTOTLE: The Politics
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Causes of Revolution
ARISTOTLE: The Politics
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The earthly and heavenly city
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Two types of man
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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We give a much more unlimited approval to their idea that the life of the wise man must be social
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Limitations of social life
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Shortcomings of human justice
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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The peace of the body then consists in the duly proportioned arrangement of its parts
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Peace between man and God is the well ordered obedience of faith to eternal law
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal, each to its own place
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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The first step in our undertaking must be to set forth what is to be understood by the term king
ST THOMAS AQUINAS: On the Rule of Princes and Summa Theological
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In all things which are ordered towards an end, wherein this or that course may be adopted, some directive principle is needed through which the due end may be reached by the most direct route
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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The free man is one who exists for his own sake, while the slave as such exists for the sake of another
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God
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Resistance to tyrants
ST AUGUSTINE: The City of God