Love and Friendship
This virtue, most associated with Anne Elliot, governs whether or not one sees reality well and whether or not one acts on that correct vision
What is prudence?
What is the Declaration of Rights of the Seneca Falls Convention?
This economic system aimed to create "universal opulence" through practices like unregulated free trade and division of labor
What is capitalism?
"While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution was intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This document defines liberty as "being able to do all that does not harm others"
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man as Citizen?
Who is Cassius?
Arguably the only declaration of independence we've read in this class that contains at least a few things from the positive liberty tradition
What is the American Declaration of Independence?
Contrasting more traditional ways of conceiving of liberty, this idea of freedom defines it according to an absence of impediment -- a "freedom from"
What is negative liberty?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that along these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..."
What is the Declaration of Rights of the Seneca Falls Convention?
According to Smith, a diamond has this sort of arbitrarily assigned value that separates it from naturally valuable things like water, shelter, or food
What is a value of exchange?
Douglass's love for the American Constitution is rooted in its being this sort of text, something which he argues has been lost by the document's interpreters
What is a "glorious liberty document"?
According to Mary Wollstonecraft, equality of education would enable a woman to become better at being this
What is a wife and mother?
The conception of politics that contends that all human beings by nature are self-interested and in a state of war of all against all; society only emerges because of arbitrary contracts with one another
What is the Hobbesian view of politics?
Name the character speaking: "You all did see on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure he is an honorable man."
Who is Marc Antony?
Brutus's speech in Julius Caesar relies heavily on these two rhetorical appeals
What are logos and ethos?
According to James I, this is the type of love a king has towards his people
What is a fatherly love?
The view of politics most influential on the American Declaration of Independence, which contends that all human beings have a natural right to life, liberty, and property
What is the Lockean view of politics?
The conception of politics that contends that all human beings by nature are political and social, born into community with one another and unable to flourish outside of a society
What is the Aristotelian view of politics?
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
Maximillien Robespierre argued using humanist language that this quality was identical with virtue and would enable France to overthrow its oppressors from the First and Second Estates
What is terror?
Towards the end of Persuasion, Anne finds out that Mr. Elliot seeks wealth and title at all costs and is willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve that. So, this is the type of ethics that Mr. Elliot subscribes to
What is consequentialism?
The original leader of the Haitian Revolution, whose policies were far less violent than his successor who penned the Haitian Declaration of Independence
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
The conception of anthropology that contends that all human beings by nature are self-interested and that this self-interest will regulate a healthy economy of supply and demand
What is a Smithian/capitalist anthropology?
"Yes. [Women] certainly do not forget [men], so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. [Men] always have a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions."
Who is Anne Elliot?
Two competing views of economics, the first of which contends that land is the basis of a healthy economy, and the second that exports should be maximized, imports minimized
What are physiocracy and mercantilism?