Unit 1: Government

What was the state of nature according to Hobbes?

• In order to get what they wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else.

• Citizens would peacefully coexist in nature.

• There is no such thing as knowing the state of nature.

Who was one of the first to discuss the idea of a social contract?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• None of the above.

According to Locke, what were every humans natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

• Life, Liberty, and Property

• Life, Liberty, and Food

When discussing a social contract, who believed it should be a two-way exchange between citizens and government where if the government fails to deliver, people have the right to revolt?

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• Tabula Rasa

In which book did Hobbes express his belief that a single sovereign, or ruler, should have total authority over the people.

• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

• Leviathan

• Social Contracts

• None of the above

Which philosopher believed that people are born with rights that they relinquish (give up) to a monarch (King/Queen) in return for protection?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Which philosopher believed that people had the right to revolt against an abusive government?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

In a social contract, people agree to obey government as long as government is protecting their freedoms.

• Hobbes
• Locke

The agreement by which people gave up the state of nature for an organized society.

• Social contract
• laissez faire
• autocracy
• democracy

Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa or a "blank slate"?

• Plato

• John Locke

• Immanuel Kant

• Rene Descartes

• Aristotle