Midterm 1 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Robert Pippin
Liberation and the Liberal Arts
Ask questions
True freedom is wisdom.
Liber free, book
Grant Madsen 1
How Pragmatists Explain Society and Addendum
doubt, inquiry, belief/habit
Make decisions and stick to them in an effort to make less decisions.
In politics, groups force things back into doubt, like women and pants.
Jonathan Haidt
The Righteous Mind
Moral foundations that are prewired.
Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation.
Naomi Braine
Social Institutions
Formal systems of behaviors and beliefs that organize areas of social life.
Education, Family, Religion, Economy, Government
Social norms are central to the function of social institutions.
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
The life of man is solitary, poor, hasty, brutish, and short.
We all want to stay alive, and are equal because we can all kill each other.
Losing side of the war, believed people are terrible, like Lord of the Flies, and only a Leviathan government with complete control can keep society under control
Right to life, free state of nature, but all against all, need a third party to enforce covenants made.
Fox and Pope
The Rule of Law
Natural law, no one is above the law.
Generality, Prospectivity, Publicity, Consent, Due Process.
John Locke
The Second Treatise of Government
Life, liberty and property
Free state of nature, but not all against all
equal because of equal desire to live, and right to try, but not to override someone else’s right to life. right to self defense.
The social construct protects from the sovereign, but we can’t give it the power to destroy us, since we don’t have that power ourselves.
Putting effort into something makes it property.
Give power to the community instead of the Leviathan.
Taking advantage of a social contract shows agreement.
Right to rebel
Robin Blackburn
The Making of New World Slavery
Slavery was reintroduced because of greed and allowed because they never had to see it up close.
slavery caused racism, not vice versa.
They needed people to work the sugar plantations. Natives wouldn’t obey, European criminals or indentured servants
Most of the slaves went to the Caribbean and elsewhere.
Nikole Hannah-Jones
1619 Project
America was founded as a corporate community, on slavery. America wouldn’t exist without slaves. The founders had slaves. Declared independence to “protect the institution of slavery”
Mark David Hall
The 1620 Project
Response to the 1619 project
America was founded as a covenant community by the pilgrims and puritans seeking God.
“The Pilgrims laid the groundwork for American civil and religious liberty”
Mayflower
Albert Hirschman
The Passions and the Interests
deadly sins, avarice, ambition, lust
pit passion against passion
Marshmallow experiment idea
Use the desire for money against the other sins
Quotes Montesquieu saying commerce leads to peace.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
The invisible hand–bakers example
Works on a national level– creates interdependence.
