How does matter move in Hobbes’s philosophy?
A.Matter moves itself
B.Matter is animated by the spirit
C.Metter moves only when pushed by other matter
D.Matter Li directly controlled by God
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Western Political Thought
What is the original source for the name “Leviathan”?
A.Hobbes’s Levisithan
B.The of job
C.John Milton’s Paradise Lost
D.Homer’s Iliad
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Why is the Leviathan called ‘artificial’?
A.It is outside of nature
B.It is manufactured by humans
C.It is only a fictional civilization
D.It is outside of nature, and it is manufactured by humans
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What was the title of Rosseau’s autobiography?
A.My Life and Times
B.The Triumph of Reason
C.If You’re Paranoid, you only have to be right once
D.The Confessions of Jean-Jacques rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau died at the age of:
A.68 years
B.66 years
C.60 years
D.78 years
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At the age of sixteen, when rightly accused of stealing from a wealthy employer how did Rousseau respond?
A.He initially denied the crime but then admitted it and made restitution
B.He blained a maid and remained silent when she was punished
C.He immediately confessed
D.He ran away but not before returning the stolen items
In Rousseau’s view, what would constitute true liberty?
A.Free enterprise, unrestrained by government interference
B.A Republic in which there is universal suffrage (for property owning males)
C.Replacement of autocratic governments by Athenian style democracy
D.Submission to the “general will” of the citizenry
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What was Rousseau’s remedy for the corruption and slavery of civilized society?
A.A new social contract
B.Democratic reforms
C.Revolution
D.Socialism
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Rosseau’s famous phrase about social ills in state of nature
A.Workers of the world unite
B.Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
C.Put the child in his place and keep him there
D.Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains
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How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state?
A.A Noble Savage
B.Solitary, nasty and brutish
C.A blank slate
D.Totally corrupted
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