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CH01: The History of Political Thought: Introducing the Challenge
1. Which of the following is a descriptive statement?
a. Everyone should have the right to vote
b. All people deserve the right to be happy
c. All people in this room are younger than 20 years of age
d. All people in this room are equal
ANSWER: c
2. Which of the following is a prescriptive statement?
a. The goal of society is justice
b. Nobody in this room is more than 6 feet tall
c. Everybody who has voted is a citizen
d. Society is made up of individual people
ANSWER: a
3. Why is it important to distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive approaches?
a. Because philosophers only make prescriptive statements
b. Failing to understand this difference leads us to expect scientific answers to philosophical problems
c. We cannot fully understand a concept like justice without descriptive statements
d. Scientists require us to make prescriptive statements
ANSWER: b
4. Prescriptive statements tell us how things should be.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Descriptive statements describe an ideal or imaginary world.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Why is “All people are created equal” a prescriptive statement, and not a descriptive one?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
7. How can the difference between descriptive and normative statements help us clarify philosophical concepts?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
8. Can we understand philosophical texts outside of their historical periods? Or do we need to consider their biographies?
Should we “stick to the text,” or put them in their historical context?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
9. What is not a type of “data” in political theory methodology?
a. Traditional texts
b. Paintings and songs
c. Statistics and mathematical proofs
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d. Popular culture
ANSWER: c
10. What is the best definition of a normative statement?
a. A description of how things are
b. An opinion about how things should be
c. An objective scientific statement.
d. A quotation from a philosopher in support of a position.
ANSWER: b
11. Political theory focuses on how things are, rather than how things should be.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
12. A normative question asks, what should we do, and why?
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
13. What are some important things to consider when thinking about what the best society looks like?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
14. How should we decide normative questions? What sort of arguments or proof should we look for?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
15. What are some examples of normative questions? Why are they normative and not descriptive?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
16. What is the name for the collected works of Western thinkers?
a. The Greats
b. The Western Collection
c. The Western Canon
d. The Euro-American Books
ANSWER: c
17. What influential book developed a groundbreaking critique of dividing the world between West and East?
a. Orientalism by Edward Said
b. The Republic by Plato
c. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
d. The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
ANSWER: a
18. Which of the following is not a danger of using the term “Western” to describe works of philosophy?
a. It makes politically constructed designations seem natural
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Political Thought , 4th Edition Donald Tannenbaum
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1- The file is chapter after chapter.
2- We have shown you 10 or five pages.
3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel
sheet if it exists.
4- We have all what you need, we make
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editions waiting you.
5- If you think you purchased the wrong file
You can contact us at every time, we can
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,Name: Class: Date:
CH01: The History of Political Thought: Introducing the Challenge
1. Which of the following is a descriptive statement?
a. Everyone should have the right to vote
b. All people deserve the right to be happy
c. All people in this room are younger than 20 years of age
d. All people in this room are equal
ANSWER: c
2. Which of the following is a prescriptive statement?
a. The goal of society is justice
b. Nobody in this room is more than 6 feet tall
c. Everybody who has voted is a citizen
d. Society is made up of individual people
ANSWER: a
3. Why is it important to distinguish between prescriptive and descriptive approaches?
a. Because philosophers only make prescriptive statements
b. Failing to understand this difference leads us to expect scientific answers to philosophical problems
c. We cannot fully understand a concept like justice without descriptive statements
d. Scientists require us to make prescriptive statements
ANSWER: b
4. Prescriptive statements tell us how things should be.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
5. Descriptive statements describe an ideal or imaginary world.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
6. Why is “All people are created equal” a prescriptive statement, and not a descriptive one?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
7. How can the difference between descriptive and normative statements help us clarify philosophical concepts?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
8. Can we understand philosophical texts outside of their historical periods? Or do we need to consider their biographies?
Should we “stick to the text,” or put them in their historical context?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
9. What is not a type of “data” in political theory methodology?
a. Traditional texts
b. Paintings and songs
c. Statistics and mathematical proofs
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, Name: Class: Date:
CH01: The History of Political Thought: Introducing the Challenge
d. Popular culture
ANSWER: c
10. What is the best definition of a normative statement?
a. A description of how things are
b. An opinion about how things should be
c. An objective scientific statement.
d. A quotation from a philosopher in support of a position.
ANSWER: b
11. Political theory focuses on how things are, rather than how things should be.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
12. A normative question asks, what should we do, and why?
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
13. What are some important things to consider when thinking about what the best society looks like?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
14. How should we decide normative questions? What sort of arguments or proof should we look for?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
15. What are some examples of normative questions? Why are they normative and not descriptive?
ANSWER: Answers may vary.
16. What is the name for the collected works of Western thinkers?
a. The Greats
b. The Western Collection
c. The Western Canon
d. The Euro-American Books
ANSWER: c
17. What influential book developed a groundbreaking critique of dividing the world between West and East?
a. Orientalism by Edward Said
b. The Republic by Plato
c. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
d. The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
ANSWER: a
18. Which of the following is not a danger of using the term “Western” to describe works of philosophy?
a. It makes politically constructed designations seem natural
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