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POL 210
Into to Political Theory
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 2
01/15/2011

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Thucydides
Definition
Peloponnesian War
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Plato
Definition
Republic
Term
Aristotle
Definition
Politics
Term
Machiavelli (2)
Definition
The Prince
Discourses on Livy
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Locke
Definition
Second Treatise on Government
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Hobbes
Definition
Leviathan
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Rousseau 
Definition
Social Contract
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Constant
Definition
On the Liberty of the Ancients
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Mill
Definition
Liberty
Term
Marx
Definition
Communist Manifesto
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Civil War in France
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Tocqueville
Definition
Democracy in America
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Peloponnesian War
Definition
"Strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept"
Rule of the powerful, that is justice
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Republic 
Definition

Do what one is best suited.

3 virtues: Temperance, Wisdom, and Courage ==> suits the three classes, founds the city. (bronze, silver, gold) justice results from a balanced soul.  

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Politics
Definition
preserving unity while pertaining to interests of different groups.  poor cannot rule, only the rich, philosophers would be bad.  
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Aristotle's Governments
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Good: Kingship, Aristocracy, Politaea.  Bad: Tyranny, Oligarchy, Democracy
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The Prince
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End justifies the means, do whatever is necessary to maintain power, that is the prince's job, (sometimes that makes fear better than love).  
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