What did Aristotle and Plato believe about political science? - ✔✔It would lead to order
in political matters and that this organized order would create stable, just societies
How did Thomas Aquinas influence political
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What did Aristotle and Plato believe about political science? - ✔✔It would lead to order
in political matters and that this organized order would create stable, just societies
How did Thomas Aquinas influence political study? - ✔✔He adapted the ideas of
Aristotle to a Christian perspective. Focused on having certain rights and
responsibilities. Laid the groundwork for what would become modern constitutionalism.
How did Niccolo Machiavelli influence political study? - ✔✔He wrote The Prince and
was a proponent of politics based on power.
How did Thomas Hobbes influence political study? - ✔✔Author of Leviathan (1651);
believed that individual's lives were focused on the quest for power; and the state must
control this urge. People were unable to live in harmony without government
intervention.
How did John Locke influence political study? - ✔✔Wrote Two Treatises of Civil
Government (1690); argued against Hobbes ideas; idea of "tabula rasa" or blank slate;
Experience molds individual minds, not innate knowledge or intuition; all men were
essentially good; many of his ideas were included in the US Constitution
How did Montesquieu and Rousseau influence political study? - ✔✔(1789-1815) heavily
influenced the French revolution; believed government policies should change to
alleviate existing problems "liberalism" Wrote: "The Social Contract (1762); "Declaration
of he Rights of Man" and "The Citizen (1789)
How did Hume and Bentham influence political study? - ✔✔"the greatest happiness for
the greatest number"; believed in empiricism - proof must be observed in order to
believe an idea
How did John Stuart Mill influence political study? - ✔✔British philosopher and
economist; progressive - women's suffrage; emancipation; and development of labor
organizations and farming coops (1806-1873)
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