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Home: Polsc 301: Study Guide for Exam 3 Study Guide for Exam 3 Updated Spring 2007 Introduction
to Political Thought Remember, the final exam will be comprehensive. The study guide indicates the extent to which the first and second units will be incorporated into multiple choice and essay questions. Now is the time to review your class notes, and previous exams and study guides. Terms: Socrates and Plato (and their relationship) Platonic dialectic Gorgias Callicles rhetoric, rhetoricians "flattery" in Plato's Gorgias Confucius idealism Machiavelli Francesco Vettori Lorenzo d'Medici Cesare Borgia Agathocles virtue (according to Plato) Medieval 'mirror' books virtu (according to Machiavelli) the lion and the fox Sun Tzu realism "history as progress" theory history as cyclical, declining, linear utopian socialism scientific socialism Sir Thomas More King Henry VIII Utopia (meaning of word) Raphael Hythloday slavery in Utopia (who, what?) Utopian dress/appearance Utopian foreign/war policy Classical Liberal theory Bourgeois morality and culture Manifesto class consciousness Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels GFW Hegel Ludwig Feuerbach the young Hegelians Industrial Revolution Marx's view of historical progress bourgeoisie, proletariate dictatorship of the proletariat full communism "bourgeois intellectuals" the
Communist League labor (how viewed by Marx and Engels) communist view of American founding (parallels) Alfie Kohn and education theory (parallels)
1. Define idealism, realism, and "history as progress" theories and explain which author fits into each of these categories. 2. How did Marx and Engels criticize classical liberal ideology? What parts of this critique might still apply today as critiques of liberal, capitalist society? 3. What is the main difference between More's utopian socialism and Marx's scientific socialism--both from your perspective and from Marx's perspective. 4. Explain how Marx and Engels would view the American government and economy using their theory of the "base" and the "superstructure." 5. Compare the main goal of More's socialism with the goal of Marx's and Engels' communism. 6. Explain the influence of Feuerbach and Hegel on Marx's thought. How did Marx develop their ideas into his own unique analysis of history. 7.
For Marx and Engels, what about capitalism creates the ultimate
revolution? What parts of capitalism are necessary to keep for
communism to work well? What parts must be rejected? 9. How would Plato view St. Thomas More's socialist theory? How would they view Marx's and Engels's theory? 10 Which socialist/communist theory (Mores or Marx's) would Machiavelli least like, and why? Would Machiavelli approve of either?
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