MCQs of Political Science – Thomas Hobbes

What innate human faculty makes natural man want to escape the state of nature?

What innate human faculty allows natural man to discover how to escape the state of nature?

For Hobbes, what is science?

What determines “good” and “evil” in Hobbes’s argument?

For Hobbes, all Philosophical knowledge must be derived from first principles or shared definition. How are these first principles established?

Why did Hobbes believe that the observation of nature was not suitable for the foundation for Philosophy ?

Why is the Leviathan called “artificial”?

What is the original source for the name “Leviathan”?

How does matter move in Hobbes’s philosophy?

In the state of nature, why will two natural men inevitably fight if they desire the same thing?

Why does Hobbes claim that all men in the state of nature are equal?

Why is it justifiable for the sovereign to put a subject to death?

When is it justified for subjects to rebel against the sovereign?

What innate faculty prevents civilised man from breaking the social contract.

What does Hobbes see as the immediate result of a rebellion against the sovereign or against the social covenant, as in civil war?

Which of the following does Hobbes believe approximates the living conditions of the state of nature?

What is the “Fundamental Law of Nature”?

Which of the following does Hobbes equate with an author, whose words are his or her own?

What is the primary purpose of the Leviathan?

In the state of nature, Hobbes argues that familial power is maternal because___________.

Which of the following according to Hobbes, can a sovereign body?

For Hobbes, how do we come to have natural laws?

Hobbes claims that being ignorant of the Laws Nature does not excuse a subject who breaks the laws because.

According to Hobbes, angels and demons are__________.

which of the following commands, if given by the sovereign, does a subject have the right to disobey?

All thoughts are knowledge and in some way derived from__________.

The external world in nothing but a series of _____________.

Decaying sense is ______________.

What distinguishes man from animals?

Two types of thoughts are _________________.

A series of thoughts that seems disconnected is __________

The type of thinking that concerns ends and means is ____________

When we begin with a desire or fancy in mind and think of what means will bring about this desired end, this is an example of a (N) ___________

When we are in possession of some general means, and then think about what sort of ends we can achieve with it, this is an example of a (n) ____________.

We express thoughts externally to remember them and express them to other through ____________ .

Which of the following identifies the four main uses of speech?

“The right ordering of names is our affirmations” is__________.

“The Only Science that is hath pleased god hitherto to bestow upon mankind is _____________.

Reckoning (That is, Adding and Subtracting ) of the Consequences of general names agreed upon” is _____________.

To settle disputes pf definitions and first principles we appeal to _____________.

The type of motion that can be thought of as essentially automatic bodily functions is __________.

Motion the has specific ends in mind a ___________.

Voluntary motions are rooted in thought, and more basically, in ___________.

Good and evil are defined___________.

Natural wit is ___________.

Acquired wit is ______________.

The type of wit that”is grounded on the right use of Speech; and produce the Sciences “is ____________.

The differences in men’s intellect arise from the difference in ____________.

The fundamental passion, that defined as man’s present means, to obtain some future good” is___________.

The faculties of the body and mind, like strength, intellect eloquence, etc is ____________.

Thomas Hobbes John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau would all have agreed with of the following statement?

Which of the following philosophers would be least likely to support a social contract theory of government?

According to Thomas Hobbes, which of the following best describes life in the State of Nature?

According to Thomas Hobbes which of the following best expresses the natural rights humans have in the State of Nature?

Which of the following types of government does Thomas Hobbes suggest is the most effective?