Quiz 1 Flashcards
(91 cards)
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What are the 5 theories of philosophy that political theory is considered under?
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metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, Politics
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What is the definition of Theoria?
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Speculation or Complementation
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What is the definition of Polis?
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State
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What is metaphysics?
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The study of what is real
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What is epistemology?
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The study of what we know and how we know it
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What is ethics?
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The study of what is good and a good life
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What is aesthetics?
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The study of art and beauty
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Aristotle politics was written in?
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336 BCE
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What are Aristotle’s assumptions about nature in this passage and how nature works?
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“Every city state exists by nature”
“Nature is an end”
“Man by nature is a political animal”
- A creature does nothing without purpose. It is human nature to be political and/or political animals.
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Heterodus History of the Persian Wars constitutional debate was written in and translated by?
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430 BC
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What is a monarchy?
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rule (archē) of one (monos)
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What is a oligarchy?
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rule of the few (oligos)
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What is a democracy?
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people (dēmos) have the power/supremacy (kratos)
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Aristotle identifies three associations/partnerships (koinonia) for thinking about political theory: the household, the village, and the state (polis).
True or False?
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True
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What is koinonia?
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community, association and partnership
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Phusis
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Nature
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Logos
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Speech
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politikon zöon
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Political Animal
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politeia
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Desirable and undesirable features of a constitution
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dikaiosunē
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justice
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sophia
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widsom
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arete
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bravery/courage
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phronēsis
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widsom
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(sōphrosunē
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temperance
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hūbris
insolence
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phthonos
jealousy/envy
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bouleumata
wise counsel
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polybius was written in
200-118BCE
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Platos republic was written in
385 BCE
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Polybius' Six Constitutions
Kingship, Despotism, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Mob-Rule
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Rule of One (Good Form)
Kingship
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Rule of One (Bad Form)
Despotism
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Rule of the Few (Good Form)
Aristocracy
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Rule of the Few (Bad Form)
Oligarchy
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Supremacy of the People (Good Form)
Democracy
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Supremacy of the People (Bad Form)
Mob - Rule
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Otanes' favorite form of government
Democracy
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Megabyzus' favorite form of government
Aristocracy
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Darius' favorite form of government
Monarchy
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3 Main Speakers in Herodotus' Constitutional Debate
Otanes, Megazybus, Darius
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Who wrote the constituional debate in the history of the persian wars?
Herodotus
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Who is the authos of Politics?
Arisostle
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Anacyclosis
Social Cycle theory
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Gymnos
Naked
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Who is the Author of Republic
Plato
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Plato believed who should become kings?
Philosophers
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Kallipolis
Good City
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The primary rhetorical device used in Plato's republic
anology
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Socrates' Main Interlocutors
Glaucon and Adeimantus
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philologist
lover of logoi
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Three classes in Political Theory according to Plato
Rulers, Guardians, and Drones
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Love of learning
Philomath
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self mastery over food and drink
enkrateia
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Maintaining good relations with the gods
divination
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Phenomenal
Perceptual
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Who raised Cyrus?
Astyages
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Education
Paideia
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When was the education of Cyrus written?
370 BC
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Who are Cyruses parents?
Cambyses and Mandane
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Two types of Monarchy
Constitutional and Absolute
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Xenophon’s Hieron was written in
474 BC
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Who wrote Hieron?
Xenophon
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Two main speakers of Hieron?
Hiero and Simondes
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Gustave Le Bon
World War II | Psychologie de foule– The Psychology of the Masses = studies how your behavior is influenced by large groups of people
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Adolf Hitler
Germany
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Winston Churchill
Great Britain
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Frederick Lindemann
Lord Cherwell
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Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II (1945)
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Tom Postmes
professor of social psychology, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
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The Titanic
The RMS Titanic, a luxury steamship, sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg during its maiden voyage.
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9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating Category 5 Atlantic hurricane
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Veneer Theory (coined by biologist Frans de Waal)
The notion that civilization is nothing more than a thin veneer that will crack at the nearest provocation.
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Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell, 2009)
Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell investigates the social consequences of five major disasters: the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the gargantuan 1917 explosion in Halifax, Nova Scotia; the devastating 1985 Mexico City quake; Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and Hurricane Katrina's
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The Coca-Cola Incident (1999)
Belgium was the site of a serious outbreak of health complaints associated with the consumption of Coca-Cola products.
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self-fulfilling prophecy
If you predict a bank will go bust and that convinces a lot of people to close their accounts, banks will go bust.
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the placebo effect
If your doctor gives you a fake pill and say it will help you feel better you will most likely feel better
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the nocebo effect
Warn your patients a drug will have side effects it probably will
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the Wolf Parable
An elder, talking to a child, says, “I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is fearful, vengeful, envious, resentful and deceitful. The other wolf is compassionate, loving, generous, truthful and peaceful.” The child asks, “Which wolf will win the fight?” The elder responds, “The one I feed.”
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negativity bias
We are more attuned to the bad then the good
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availability bias
If we can easily recall examples of a given thing, we assume that thing is relatively common
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Joseph Henrich (homo economicus)
Homo economicus is a model for human behavior that suggests a person has an infinite capacity to make rational decisions.
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original sin
No one is free from sin
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
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Lord of the Flies was written by?
William Golding
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What was the Lord of the Flies about?
The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. The central concern of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify one's immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy.
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Six Tongan Castaways
After a storm wrecked the boat, they six boys drifted to the abandoned, remote island of ʻAta and managed to keep themselves in good order during the duration under the circumstances. Long thought dead, they were discovered and rescued in September 1966 by Australian lobster fisher Peter Warner.
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Who were the Six Tongan Castaways?
Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo, Mano
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Who was Peter Warner?
The man who rescued the Six Tongan Castaways.
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Who was Manu Tatau?
He also rescued the Six Tongan Castaways.
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Reality TV
Credits William Golding's as the originator this specialty of TV
