POLS 121 FINAL EXAM 2024 ACTUAL EXAM 2 VERSIONS
(VERSION A AND B) COMPLETE 450 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Aristotle (Aris-totle) - ANSWER: compared politics and the way justice operated in
different states, compared strengths and weaknesses which we can use in society
today
Thrasymachus (name sounds like a monster) - ANSWER: the advantage of the
stronger
legal form is built on socratic method (asking questions and getting answers, shown
in crown and defense)
from plato's republic
John Stuart Mill (utilitarianism) - ANSWER: rules and frameworks of justice that
support and provide the best good for the most amount of people over minorities
John Rawls (johns go against each other) - ANSWER: justice should be structured so
that it benefits or provides good for the minority of people
Shalom - ANSWER: the way God intends for people to live together, peaceful and
well
ordering of society that allows individuals to flourish
three biblical metaphors for idolatry - ANSWER: love
trust
obey
liberalism - ANSWER: a political philosophy founded on liberty, and equality,
including such principles as freedom of speech, press, markets, religion, civil rights,
cooperation, and seperation of church/state
Thomas Hobbes on liberalism (leviathan) - ANSWER: people think about political
authority like the leviathan, how it is all consuming and has complete authority
center of justice is order, agrees with police and court, society should have a system
of power where they do not use violent means to settle disputs, everyone obeys to
the state
John Locke on Liberalism (when someone is in a contract they are locked in) -
ANSWER: social contract theory, people come together to create political authority
, out of a common belief so people could contract together to have governments do
things for the good of the people
Jean Jacques Rousseau on Liberalism - ANSWER: also agreed with social contract
theory
argued that people were born free, society creates inequality and corrupt systems
stages of liberalism - ANSWER: 1. Hobbesian Commonwealth (states provides order
and sovereignty)
2. the night watchman state (sets regulations, watches to see if jobs get misused)
3. Regulatory state (state begins to do more by setting more laws, inclduing child
labour and taxes)
4.Equal Opportunity State (regulations do not promote equality, so state steps in to
promote equality
5. Choice enhancement state (doing of justice is about allowing citizens to make
personal decisions)
6. post-liberalism (liberal state breaks away as peoples beliefs do not align with the
state, and then the cycle of these stages start over again)
conservatism - ANSWER: a political philosophy which promotes retaining social
institutions context of culture and civilization
edmund burke on conservatism (burke in greys was on the show (present) then left
(dead) and then came back (yet to come)) - ANSWER: believes society is in
partnership between the living and the dead and those who are yet to be born
we owe our parents and generations that are yet to come
Joseph de Maistre on conservatism - ANSWER: believed politics should come from
religion, as government would result in violence and unresolveable arguements
Groen van Prinsterer on conversatism (singular prince) - ANSWER: return to God to
resolve and promote justice instead of going to a monarchy
nationalism (what is nation) - ANSWER: a group of people that share common
language, common ethnicity and common religion
"a community of persons who share a consciousness of their common identity based
on one or a number of elements of real connectedness with each other, their
culture, their land and/or their state" - David Koysiz
Democracy - ANSWER: a system of government which values individuals voice and
opinion, including the right vote
anthropocentrism - ANSWER: justice is within humans, doesn't incorporate God
(VERSION A AND B) COMPLETE 450 QUESTIONS WITH
DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Aristotle (Aris-totle) - ANSWER: compared politics and the way justice operated in
different states, compared strengths and weaknesses which we can use in society
today
Thrasymachus (name sounds like a monster) - ANSWER: the advantage of the
stronger
legal form is built on socratic method (asking questions and getting answers, shown
in crown and defense)
from plato's republic
John Stuart Mill (utilitarianism) - ANSWER: rules and frameworks of justice that
support and provide the best good for the most amount of people over minorities
John Rawls (johns go against each other) - ANSWER: justice should be structured so
that it benefits or provides good for the minority of people
Shalom - ANSWER: the way God intends for people to live together, peaceful and
well
ordering of society that allows individuals to flourish
three biblical metaphors for idolatry - ANSWER: love
trust
obey
liberalism - ANSWER: a political philosophy founded on liberty, and equality,
including such principles as freedom of speech, press, markets, religion, civil rights,
cooperation, and seperation of church/state
Thomas Hobbes on liberalism (leviathan) - ANSWER: people think about political
authority like the leviathan, how it is all consuming and has complete authority
center of justice is order, agrees with police and court, society should have a system
of power where they do not use violent means to settle disputs, everyone obeys to
the state
John Locke on Liberalism (when someone is in a contract they are locked in) -
ANSWER: social contract theory, people come together to create political authority
, out of a common belief so people could contract together to have governments do
things for the good of the people
Jean Jacques Rousseau on Liberalism - ANSWER: also agreed with social contract
theory
argued that people were born free, society creates inequality and corrupt systems
stages of liberalism - ANSWER: 1. Hobbesian Commonwealth (states provides order
and sovereignty)
2. the night watchman state (sets regulations, watches to see if jobs get misused)
3. Regulatory state (state begins to do more by setting more laws, inclduing child
labour and taxes)
4.Equal Opportunity State (regulations do not promote equality, so state steps in to
promote equality
5. Choice enhancement state (doing of justice is about allowing citizens to make
personal decisions)
6. post-liberalism (liberal state breaks away as peoples beliefs do not align with the
state, and then the cycle of these stages start over again)
conservatism - ANSWER: a political philosophy which promotes retaining social
institutions context of culture and civilization
edmund burke on conservatism (burke in greys was on the show (present) then left
(dead) and then came back (yet to come)) - ANSWER: believes society is in
partnership between the living and the dead and those who are yet to be born
we owe our parents and generations that are yet to come
Joseph de Maistre on conservatism - ANSWER: believed politics should come from
religion, as government would result in violence and unresolveable arguements
Groen van Prinsterer on conversatism (singular prince) - ANSWER: return to God to
resolve and promote justice instead of going to a monarchy
nationalism (what is nation) - ANSWER: a group of people that share common
language, common ethnicity and common religion
"a community of persons who share a consciousness of their common identity based
on one or a number of elements of real connectedness with each other, their
culture, their land and/or their state" - David Koysiz
Democracy - ANSWER: a system of government which values individuals voice and
opinion, including the right vote
anthropocentrism - ANSWER: justice is within humans, doesn't incorporate God
