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LAS Final
Essentially the authors and such we learned for the LAS final.
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2010

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John Locke (I)
Definition

- Seventeenth Century English Professor and Philosopher

-Wrote "Two Treatises of Government"

-All people are created equal and therefore should be responsible for governing each other.

EYE FOR AN EYE

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Thomas Hobbes (I)
Definition

-17th Century  English Natural Law Philosopher

-Wrote the Leviathan

-Man's Natural State is war (No rules in War)

Three Causes of War: 1) Competition 2) Diffidence & 3) Glory

-Human Nature is inherently BAD

-Government is a NECESSARY evil to control humanity

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Hsun-Tzu
Definition

-330-230 BC, Confucian Sage (Chinese)

Wrote the book of Hsun-Tzu

Human nature is bad and good is a human product

INFLUENCE AFFECTS EVERYONE

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Alexis de Toqueville (II)
Definition

Nineteenth Century French Aristocrat and Attorney.

Came to America to study our democracy to better France's newly blossomed one

Wrote "Democracy in America"

TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY

EQUALITY OVER FREEDOM

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E. O. Wilson (II)
Definition

20th Century American biologist and environmentalist.

Wrote "The Bottleneck)

Earth's ability to support human growth is finite (We don't understand this)

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Konrad Lorenz (II)
Definition

20th Century Austrian Soldier and Zoologist (survived WWII)

Wrote "On Agression"

FOUR KINDS OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION:

1. Anonymous Crowd

2. Family and Social Life

3. Large Family

4. Love and Friendship

HUMANS DON'T KNOW WHEN TO STOP MATING

*********MILITANT ENTHUSISM*********

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John Stuart Mill (II)
Definition

19th Century Administer and Editor

Child prodigy (Fluent in Latin and Greek by the age of six)

HARM PRINCIPLE

COLLECTIVE MEDIOCRITY

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Thomas Malthus (II)
Definition

18th century Anglican Minister

Knew that populations icrease faster than their food source

VISCIOUS CUSTOMS

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E. O. Wilson (III)
Definition

20th Century American Biologist and Enviornmentalist

Natural Selection does not anticipate future needs

BUILDING BLOCKS

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Leonardo da Vinci (III)
Definition

15th Century (Italian renaissance)

Master Painter, Stresses the importance of observation and scientific reasoning.

ASK HOW.

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Charles Darwin (III)
Definition

19th Century Biologist, wrote Origin of the Species

NATURAL SELECTION

SEXUAL SELECTION

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