Summer 2000, June 12-July 5
POL 1201
Political Ideas and Ideologies
MTW: 9:05-11:00 Blegen 115
Questions on Liberalism, June 20, 2000

Whenever appropriate support your answers with one or more quotes from the texts assigned.

1) What are the five main tenets of Lockean liberalism?

2) What is Locke's main argument in his Letter on Toleration?

3) What political crisis was Locke responding to?

4) What is the difference between Hobbes' "state of nature" and Locke's "state of nature"?

5) Explain what the Declaration of Independence of the USA owes to Locke?

6) Which individual right is mentioned by Locke but not by the Declaration?

7) How does Thomas Jefferson understand "the pursuit of happiness"?

8) What is the "despotism of custom?" Who mentions this term? Why is despotism of custom to be feared?

9) Name the four reasons John Stuart Mill gives to justify the preservation of complete liberty of opinion and discussion.

10) What does Mill think of democracy?

11) Who is Adam Smith? What is the name of his main work?

12) What is Adam Smith's conception of human nature? Summarize Adam Smith 's main argument.

13) Who is Green? What does he mean by "negative" and "positive freedom"? Summarize his argument .

14) What is another name for the kind of liberalism that Green espouses?



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