great thinkers, great ideas

Locke and Rousseau 171 to use them, there developed an inequality based on the compe­ tition that ensued. Men’s basic equality b ...

172 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State thinking led him to talk about the state forcing “such an indi­ vidu ...

Locke and Rousseau 173 Of course each of the three forms can become corrupt, and the size of the state can contribute to this pr ...

CHAPTER 19 Burke and Hegel: Conservatism and Absolute Idealism Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Edmund Burke was born in Ireland in 1729 ...

Burke and Hegel 175 Burke’s conception of the nature of man is essentially a Christian view, that man is imperfect and imperfect ...

arrived at by philosophical speculation based on some abstract principle. His opposition to concepts like natural rights does no ...

Burke and Hegel 1 77 his constituents, “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, i ...

way the political, social, educational, religious, and economic institutions of America were left virtually intact after indepen ...

Burke and Hegel 179 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was bom in Stuttgart, Ger­ many in 1 ...

individuals with one another, and the relationship of families and civil society is the basis for the ethical life. Man cannot l ...

Burke and Hegel 181 are not elected but serve on a hereditary basis. The second estate has members who represent the different s ...

182 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State through certain nations which are pre-eminent in the world at a part ...

CHAPTER 20 Marx and Mussolini: Communism and Fascism Karl Marx (1818-1883) Karl Marx was born in Prussia in 1818 into a middle- ...

in the process is change in the material world, not the world of ideas. These material changes affect everything in human expe­ ...

Marx and Mussolini 185 The inevitable violent revolution. Since the owners will never willingly give up the wealth they have in ...

186 Political Theory: The Relationship of Man and the State Abolition of private property. A heavy, progressive, graduated inco ...

Marx and Mussolini 187 cooperative, where workers will not only produce the goods, but administer the factories and farms. There ...

Vilfredo Pareto who most directly affected Mussolini with his “theory of elites,” an explanation of mass behavior. Pareto claime ...

Marx and Mussolini 189 Roman Empire and the glory that would return to Italy under fascism. The emotional ideal of the Roman Gol ...

far as they are within the state.” The idea of freedom, in fascist theory, is in accordance with the position taken by Hegel. Fr ...