Social Science II
Second Long Exams

I. Modified True or False. Write AYE if the statement is correct, otherwise write NAY and change the wrong word or group of words.

1. A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion.
2. Jean Jacques Rosseau claimed that there exist no true authority.
3. According to John Lock, knowledge is derived from immediate perceptions. It is apriori.
4. Princes and Republics who wish to maintain themselves free from corrumption must, above all things, preserve the purity of all political observances.
5. There are two methods of fighting; one by virtue, the other by fortune.
6. John Locke claims that the state of nature is a state of defective freedom.
7. Jean Jacques Rosseau was born in 1712 from a rich french family in Germany.
8. John Locke theorized that society had been founded by attached individuals in a "state of nature" in order to protect their interest, which the chief were life, liberty and property.
9. The prince is an immoral handbook on how to succeed in the political business.
10. The social contract, according to John Locke, is the remedy for the inconveniences of the state of nature.
11. Renaissance sparked the intellectual revolution.
12. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke has an atomistic view of the society, regarding it as a collection of self-serving individuals.
13. Jean Jacques Rosseau, in his work, the social contract argued that if there was much evil in the world, it could not be blamed on men's natural inclination but on social injustice and inequality which drove men to commit conceivable deprived acts.
14. Jean Jacques Rosseau argued that men are born free but are everywhere in chains.
15. The prince is a theory of historical inevitability where the courses of change lie in the nature of man and political society.
16. John Locke, in his book " The Treaties of Government" prescribed absolute monarchy as the best form of government.

B. Fill in the Blanks.

1. ______ did not provide civil equality to non-catholics.
2. The epicenter of the renaissance is _____.
3. Nothing is more necessary, according to Niccolo Machiavelli, than to have the quality of ______.
4. ______ held that when a monarch did not uphold the "natural rights" of his subjects, the people had the right to depose him.
5. Niccolo Machiavekki believed that ______ is the best.
6. Jean Jacques Rosseau argued that men are born free and remain free and equal in their rights: ______, ______, ______, and ______.
7. ______ was born in 1632 and had influenced the principal author of the american declaration of independence, Thomas Jefferson.
8. Thomas Hobbes was born with natural ________.
9. Niccolo Machiavelli retired to write The Prince where he attached a fawning dedication to ______ in the hope of favor.
10. Right of slavery is absurd and meaningless because slavery and _____ are contradictory and mutually exclusive.
11. Thomas Hobbes' ______ is a mortal cod.
12. ______ is the ability of men to understand reality and to act accordingly based on his feelings of reality.
13. Thomas Hobbes claimed that ______ would cause to return to the state of nature.
14. Niccolo Machievelli praised ______ for his virtue; he served as Machiavelli's inspiration in writing The Prince.
15. ______ are the rights possessed by an individual simply because s/he is a human being.

II. Essay

A. Compare and contrast Thomas Hobbes' "The Leviathan" and John Locke's " The Two Treaties of Government" using the following variables: (15 points)

1. Human nature
2. State of nature
3. Social contract

B. What is J.J. Rosseau view on the right of slavery? Elaborate you answer. (15 points)

C. What is your idea on human rights. Take a stand and defend your claim.

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