Machiavelli, Marx, And Milton Flashcards

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Judges 2:19

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Bible tells of the need for a continually strong godly leadership to prevent people from going astray

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Many governments choose not to?

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Follow biblical principles

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Good God-honoring leadership can?

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Forge a nation into a moral power

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Retired Army General Schwartzkopf

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Said that he learned as much from mistakes of leaders as from their victories

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Learned as much from avoiding bad as imitating good?

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Schwartzkopf

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Lived during Italian Renaissance?

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Father of Modern Political Science?

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Machiavelli

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_____ based their political theories on ____ logic

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Machiavelli, humanistic

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Medieval approach to politics?

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View it in light of religion

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Presented state as living organism?

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Machiavelli, ruler as head and subjects as rest of body

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Reputation as being crpruel and heartless in The Prince?

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Machiavelli

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The Prince

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Published in 1532
A ruler may do anything necessary to keep body healthy- even if he had to be cruel and deceitful in order to maintain a balance of power

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Excessive force upon _____ was encouraged by ____

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Dissenters, Machiavelli

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Karl Marx

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German social scientist
Professional revolutionary of 19th century
Born and raised in Prussia

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Communism and socialism

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Two most powerful types of government in past century

Came from writings of Karl Marx

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Attended unit wrist of Bonn?

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Marx

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Worked with Engels to write two works which established him as a radical in approach to government?

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Marx, Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

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Marx, in Communist Manifest, claimed that history could be seen as a series of?

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Battles between working and upper middle classes

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Real dream would be achieved when? According to Karl Marx

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Working class overthrew upper classes

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Das Kapital

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Marx’s view on the free enterprise system

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Free enterprise system flaws pointed out by Marx?

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Continued series of inflationary periods and depression would make free enterprise useless
Accumulation of wealth from system only made more misery because nobody knew how to spend wealth wisely

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Marx maintained that only a true good society would come when?

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The proletariat would be able to overthrow the bourgeoisie

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John Milton

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Prolific writer of 17th century
Wrote English literary classics
Influential political writer

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Involved in politics of 1600s and did much to promote radical reform against the monarchy?

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Heard of serious unrest between King Charles I and the Puritans back in home country of England?
Milton
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King _____ had joined forces with ____ of the Church of England and fought the ___ over the ____ of the church and state
Charles I, bishops, Puritans, policies
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1642?
Civil war broke out between puritans and King Charles I | Puritans were led by Oliver Cromwell, they won.
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Milton spent next ___ years after the civil war in favor of a ruling party other than a _____
20, monarchy
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Milton's support of the Commonwealth and the Cromwell Parliament was evident in his writings:?
Of Reformation in England The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Commonwealth The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
People's right to select and eliminate rulers
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____ political writings gave insight into a citizen who deserved to live without a _____ in a country where the people had a right to ___
Milton's, monarch, speak out
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Result of working class overthrowing the upper class, according to Marx?
A classless society in which nobody would have the rule, the factories and major corporations would be owned publicly, and the common people would be in charge of their own destiny
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Most powerful economic system ever made?
Free enterprise system
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Milton's English literary classics?
Paradise Lost | Samson Agonistes
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Marx wrote about his disagreement with the free enterprise system in?
Das Kapital
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Machiavelli's The Prince?
It approved of the use of force upon dissenters | It approved cruelty and deceitfulness to maintain the balance of power
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Milton was involved with the politics of the 1600s and did much to promote radical reform against the?
Monarchy
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The bible teaching of good leadership keeping people from going astray in found in?
Judges 2:19
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Communism
Political system of collective ownership of property; population is of one class
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Communist manifesto
Book by Marx urging workers to overthrow upper classes; textbook for communism and socialism; laid groundwork for Marxism
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Dissenter
One who disagrees or has a difference of opinion
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Free enterprise system
Political system in which the government allows citizens to own private business for profit
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Humanistic
Secular rather than Godly; promoted during the Renaissance; putting more emphasis on man's will
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Of Reformation in England
John Milton's writing on the preference of a commonwealth over a monarchy
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Principles
A basic rule or standard
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Renaissance
A revival of art and learning arising between the 14th and 16th centuries
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Social scientist
One who studies individual relationships within society and relationships to society
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Socialism
System where political power and property is to be shared by the whole population