PHIL 1010 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
Machiavelli - correct answer ✔✔1.The prince
2. Marked the paradigm shift from antiquity to modernity
3. Moved the source of political legitimacy from deveined to secular grounding
The Prince - correct answer ✔✔Advises political rulers on how to acquire, preserve and employ
political power
In the Prince Machiavelli advises a Prince to: - correct answer ✔✔1. Hold onto power
2. Secure power
3. Making the populous believe
4. Establishing power by scattering and dividing
5. Winning them over with the exception that no on should be recognized as superior to the
prince
Fortuna - correct answer ✔✔Fortune is not good luck for Machiavelli but a malevolent,
anthropomorphized cosmological force that is the cause of political disorder. It is the antithesis
to rational order
Virtue - correct answer ✔✔It includes natural or acquired talents, skills and abilities but Moore
generally refers to an excellent trait or character
Generosity - correct answer ✔✔It is good fro the prince to be considered generous but not in a
way that his generosity would harm his hold on power
, Human nature - correct answer ✔✔Machiavelli holds a very poor view of humans as wicked and
wretched
Medeci Family - correct answer ✔✔Noble utility family that ruled Florence for most of the
Renaissance
Thomas Hobbes - correct answer ✔✔Leviathan
Leviathans main goal - correct answer ✔✔How to achieve peace in a polity
Hobbes wrote: - correct answer ✔✔1.That men are generally equal in their power adding they
also share basic common needs.
2. From these two facts results the possibility of endless conflict of all against all
3. Proposed that men share instinct of self preservation which he called the right of nature
Hobbes argued: - correct answer ✔✔Because men fear death and sick, safety and peace they
are inclined to leave the stat of nature being by devising an arrangement where they transfer
some of their natural rights in return for protection by resulting authority
Leviathan presents: - correct answer ✔✔The first systematic account of social contract theory
Scientific methodology - correct answer ✔✔Marks the paradigm shift from traditional thinking
to modernity by emphasizing the importance of observation and deductive reasoning in
scientific endeavours
Hobbes Materialism - correct answer ✔✔There are three kinds of bodies:
1. Physical bodies like stone
2.Human body
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
Machiavelli - correct answer ✔✔1.The prince
2. Marked the paradigm shift from antiquity to modernity
3. Moved the source of political legitimacy from deveined to secular grounding
The Prince - correct answer ✔✔Advises political rulers on how to acquire, preserve and employ
political power
In the Prince Machiavelli advises a Prince to: - correct answer ✔✔1. Hold onto power
2. Secure power
3. Making the populous believe
4. Establishing power by scattering and dividing
5. Winning them over with the exception that no on should be recognized as superior to the
prince
Fortuna - correct answer ✔✔Fortune is not good luck for Machiavelli but a malevolent,
anthropomorphized cosmological force that is the cause of political disorder. It is the antithesis
to rational order
Virtue - correct answer ✔✔It includes natural or acquired talents, skills and abilities but Moore
generally refers to an excellent trait or character
Generosity - correct answer ✔✔It is good fro the prince to be considered generous but not in a
way that his generosity would harm his hold on power
, Human nature - correct answer ✔✔Machiavelli holds a very poor view of humans as wicked and
wretched
Medeci Family - correct answer ✔✔Noble utility family that ruled Florence for most of the
Renaissance
Thomas Hobbes - correct answer ✔✔Leviathan
Leviathans main goal - correct answer ✔✔How to achieve peace in a polity
Hobbes wrote: - correct answer ✔✔1.That men are generally equal in their power adding they
also share basic common needs.
2. From these two facts results the possibility of endless conflict of all against all
3. Proposed that men share instinct of self preservation which he called the right of nature
Hobbes argued: - correct answer ✔✔Because men fear death and sick, safety and peace they
are inclined to leave the stat of nature being by devising an arrangement where they transfer
some of their natural rights in return for protection by resulting authority
Leviathan presents: - correct answer ✔✔The first systematic account of social contract theory
Scientific methodology - correct answer ✔✔Marks the paradigm shift from traditional thinking
to modernity by emphasizing the importance of observation and deductive reasoning in
scientific endeavours
Hobbes Materialism - correct answer ✔✔There are three kinds of bodies:
1. Physical bodies like stone
2.Human body
