ILS 206 Study Guide - Final Guide: Public Sphere, Alexis De Tocqueville, Human Nature

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Integrated Liberal Studies
• Course: ILS 206
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Machiavelli: people are greedy and chose to satisfy this greed. There is a gap between virtue and what they actually do. Hobbes: men are governed by fear and self preservation. Locke: humans are essentially good, but there are a few bad eggs. Rousseau: it is human nature for self preservation and pity. Tocqueville: human nature is looking at individual interests, which is bad. Madison: human nature is looking at individual interests, which is bad. Mill: humans want to express their individualisms, and to have a partial knowledge of truth as an individual. Nietzsche: human nature is to impose one"s strength and will upon the world. Machiavelli: political morality is concerned with maintaining political stability. Individual morality is the same as private/christian morality. Calvin: it is possible to be faithful in private life, while obeying the government. Locke: public can only control life, liberty, state. The private will makes up the general will.