1. What is the authority with the power to define public interest called?
2. What is the claim that the power of the state must be justified called?
3. What is the theory that state authority is derived from God called?
4. Which philosopher advocated the justice theory of legitimacy?
5. Name the five theories of legitimacy.
6. According to the text, which theory of legitimacy is most accepted today?
7. What is an agreement among people to share interests and make compromises for the common good called?
8. What is the view that government is justified because it furthers public interest called?
9. Which theory of legitimacy does Hobbes support?
10. Which theory of legitimacy was Plato an advocate of?
11. Which theory of legitimacy holds that serving public interest justifies government?
12. Name a major supporter of representative democracy.
13. Which theory of legitimacy would Locke be an advocate of?
14. Which philosopher who we studied was most in favor of a strong, centralized state?
15. What was the condition of man before he entered into society called?
16. Who is the theory of natural (or human) rights associated with?
17. How did Rousseau believe people in society should be governed?
18. Name 3 philosophers who advocate the consent of the governed theory.
19. Who believed that the wisest should rule?
20. Who does Marx define as those who live by selling their labor power?
21. What kind of state was Hobbes most in favor of?
22. Which of the other philosophers we studied would Marx be closest to?
23. Name the contradictions of capitalism that Marx presents.
24. Who believed man was reasonable and sociable in the state of nature?
25. What is the concept of obeying the law because you want to rather than have to called?
26. Which form of government would Marx be an advocate of?
27. Name three characteristics which Hobbes ascribes to man in the state of nature.
28. According to Locke, the right to private property originated in ________ ?
29. Which philosopher denied human nature and emphasized social evolution?
30. Why is Marx called a materialist?