ETHC 280 Quiz Individual Rights
ETHC 280 Quiz: Individual Rights and Freedom
- According to Hayek, in one sense socialism means the abolition of private enterprise which is replaced by a central planning body.
- According to Hayek, the means of achieving social reform is “economic planning” and it can be used for many other purposes.
- Whereas Haskins noted socialism in its theoretical form does not endorse government control “democratic socialism”, Hayek explains that socialism puts governments in a position where to support themselves they are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.
- According to Hayek, one of the main arguments in favor of competition is that it always occurs naturally.
- According to Hayek, monopolists impede freedom of choice, and an authority directing the whole economic system is another form of monopoly.
- According to Hayek, economic freedom, the freedom of choice, also carries risk and responsibility.
- According to Shapiro, in the 18th century the United States moved toward the embrace of an Enlightenment based on Locke, Blackstone, Montesquieu and the Bible.
- According to Shapiro, the Declaration of Independence, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man assert the exact same values.
- According to Shapiro, Edmund Burke predicted that the French revolutions triumph of supposed rationality over tradition and Judeo-Christian values (in distinction from the 1776 revolution) would turn reason into a mere byword to be vulgarized by political forces.
- According to Shapiro, Georg Hegel argued individuals were defined by the life of the state. For Hegel the state supersedes the individual. Hegel was influential on Marx.