A. Natural aristocracy
B. Elective aristocracy
C. Hereditary aristocracy
D. Different forms are best under different circumstances
Related Mcqs:
- Rousseau had a number of detractors among whom Rousseau himself should the included. What was the title of his seemingly candid autobiography?
A. My Life and Times
B. The Triumph of Reason
C. If You’re Paranoid, you only have to be right once
D. The Confessions of Jean-Jacques rousseau - Which of the following practices does Rousseau favor?
A. Hereditary succession of power
B. The abolition of private property
C. Capital punishment
D. Public ballots - In a large state, which of the following recommendations does Rousseau make?
A. The government should be weaker
B. There should be many magistrates
C. There should be fewer magistrates
D. There should be frequent elections - How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state?
A. A Noble Savage
B. Solitary, nasty and brutish
C. A blank slate
D. Totally corrupted - In Rousseau’s writings he argued for a humane and loving approach to children. How could his relationship with his own children be characterized?
A. Loving and supportive
B. He was childless
C. Stormy at times but generally positive
D. He placed the five children he produced with his mistress in orphanages - According to Rousseau, what is legitimate political authority based on ____________?
A. Slavery
B. A social contract
C. Nature
D. Force - What do people get in return for surrendering their freedom to an absolute monarch, according to Rousseau?
A. Preservation
B. Security
C. Peace
D. Nothing of any value - What was Rousseau’s remedy for the corruption and slavery of civilized society?
A. A new social contract
B. Democratic reforms
C. Revolution
D. Socialism - In Rousseau’s view, what would constitute true liberty?
A. Free enterprise, unrestrained by government interference
B. A Republic in which there is universal suffrage (for property owning males)
C. Replacement of autocratic governments by Athenian style democracy
D. Submission to the “general will” of the citizenry - Rousseau believed that man in the “state of nature” was naturally good. Still he admitted that a true state of nature probably existed except as an ideal, a standard for comparison. His mothod for dealing with this discrepancy between reality and theory was to:
A. “Lay the facts aside, as they do not affect the question.”
B. He blamed a maid and remained silent when she was punished
C. He immediately confessed
D. He ran awa but not before returning the stolen items
