Learning Record

Kamin Kosawititkul (Khaowpoon)

Date: 5/1/2018 (Intro)
Question: Who is locke? Is Locke his or her full name or last name? Why is he so important?

Summary: He is one of the famous English philosopher and physician. Locke is his last name his full name is John Locke. He
is one of the renowned philosophers who introduced liberalism.

Analysis & opinion: John Locke was Also known as “Father of Liberalism”. He is the most famous English theorist,
philosopher and physician who introduced liberalism.

References: (n.d.). Retrieved January 05, 2018, from http://www.iep.utm.edu/locke/

Date: 8/1/2018 (Plato)
Question: What do I already know about Plato? What are some of Plato’s main ideas? What are Plato’s political ideas?

Summary: Plato is Greek philosopher and theorist. He believes in the world of forms and the king should be a philosopher
and divided society into three groups (controlled by noble lies based on metal) including producers, military and
rulers.Plato argued that we can’t have a good life without good government, and he also believed that we can’t have good
governments without intellectually and morally excellent leaders.

Analysis & opinion: in my opinion, Plato is an ancient philosopher who has the unbelievable idea that never becomes
true. Moreover, he disagrees in the democratic system, so it could mean that democracy does not work to rule his citizens
in that time. He has a cynical mind about democracy. Plato referred himself as escaped prisoners who experience things
outside a cave.

References: In class
Date: 12/1/2018 (Aristotle)
Question: What are some of Aristotle‘s political ideas? What are the differences Between Plato’s and Aristotle ideas?

Summary: The importance of private property, The middle class, Avoiding political extremes. Plato believes in the things
called “Philosopher rulers ” that mean Plato is focused more on idealistic things, but Aristotle is more on realistic.

Analysis & opinion: Aristotle’s idea is based on reality, On the other hand, Plato’s is idealistic and his idea came from him
made up logic.

References: Aristotle vs Plato. (n.d.). Retrieved January 12, 2018, from https://www.diffen.com/difference/Aristotle_vs_Plato

Four important lessons from Aristotle's The Politics. (2015, October 02). Retrieved January 12, 2018, from http://classicalwisdom.com/lessons-the-politics/
Date: 15/1/2018 (Hobbes & Locke)
Question: What are the differences between Hobbes’ and Locke’s ideas?

Summary: Hobbes believe that the only true form of government is the absolute monarchy. In the other hand, Locke
considered the best type of monarchy to be one that was limited in its power by the power. John Locke's ideas concerning the
natural rights of man and the social contract.

Analysis & opinion: I think that Hobbes and Locke are different faces of the coin, but there still are the same object. What I
mean by this is there both belief in the power of the monarchy but just different types of it.

References: (n.d.). Retrieved January 14, 2018, from https://jim.com/hobbes.htm

Date: 19/1/2018 (Rousseau)
Question: Who is Rousseau? What are his main ideas? What is state of nature like in his view? What is his view in his society? What
impacts did his ideas have on history?

Summary: French philosopher who didn’t believe in the progress of humanity. He believes that human is naturally good, but the
society corrupted them, He thinks society make humankind worst. The state of Nature is his idea of a society without civilization.
for example, The Indian at the North of America. His ideas influenced Romantic period and education.

Analysis & Opinion: The job of government in his way are 1.) to leave the individuals alone. 2.) empowered them to proper
education.

References: W. (2016, November 28). "The Social Contract" by Jean Jacques Rousseau. Retrieved January 19, 2018, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsV3pZnDeXU S. (2015, August 14). POLITICAL THEORY – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Retrieved January
19, 2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81KfDXTTtXE
 Date: 22/1/2018 (Machiavelli)
Question: Who is Machiavelli? What is a good leader in Machiavelli POint of View? Why does he think it is impossible to be a good person and good ruler at the
same time? What virtues does Machiavelli believe that leaders should have? What are criminal virtue?

Summary: machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He believes that Leader need
to defence, enrich and bring honours to the state. He thinks that it is a weakness to be nice in political and the security of the stage is the most important.

Analysis & opinion: I think that Machiavelli thought it is quite aggressive and I also think that it cannot be used in today government.

References: In class
Date: 23/1/2018 (John sTuart Mill)
Question: Who is John Stuart Mill? What is utilitarianism? What is Deontology?

Summary: English philosopher, economist, and exponent of Utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century, and remains
of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist. utilitarianism is according to which an action is right if it tends to promote happiness and wrong if it
tends to produce the reverse of happiness not just the happiness of the performer of the action but also that of everyone affected by it. DEontology is ethical theory
that emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions.

Analysis & opinion: I think his idea is good because he focused on people and society happiness than his own

References: (n.d.). Retrieved January 22, 2018, from http://www.iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/

An Introduction to John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism - A Macat Politics Analysis. (2015, October 13). Retrieved January 22,
2018, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LD5-2oj7DA
Date: 29/1/2018 (Montesquieu)
Question: Who is Montesquieu? What are his political ideas? How should the government be organized according to
Montesquieu?

Summary: Montesquieu born in Medieval France (late 1600s to be exact). He observed that society was organized into three
main sections (The Monarchy, The Aristocrats, The commons). monarchy have Sovereign and administrative power (Executive,
Legislative, Judicial). He think that the three powers should be separated, equal to each other, and able to check and balanced
each others.

Analysis & opinion: Montesquieu’s idea affected society by being a greatest supporter of the idea which we use today.

References: (n.d.). Retrieved January 28, 2018, from

http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site6/montesquieu.htm
Date: 26/1/2018 (Herbert Spencer)
Question: Who is Herbert Spencer? What were his ideas? What is Social Darwinism? How is it different than evolution? What does Social Darwinism have in
common with Darwin’s theories of evolution? Where did survival of the Fittest come from, and what does it mean?

Summary: English sociologist and philosopher, an early advocate of the theory of evolution, Social Darwinism held that the life of humans in society was a
struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,”

Analysis & opinion: I think that the society that herbert Spencer introduced has no mercy on the weakling and the poor one that also mean he didn’t thought
about giving people opportunity.

References: In-class
13/2/2018 (10 Facts about John Locke)
1. John Locke believed in the middle class and its right to freedom of the inner voice, and its property.

2. Locke's greatest philosophical work, “An essay concerning Human Understanding” is generally seen as a defining work
of seventeenth-century empiricist epistemology and metaphysics.

3. John Locke’s idea of “Natural Laws” had a big deal to do with both the American Revolution and the French revolution.

4. John Locke stated that the only source of knowledge comes through our senses.

5. John Locke was the Father of Class Liberalism.

6. John Locke’s father was also named John Locke.

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7. John Locke was an English Philosopher and Physician.

8. John Locke was baptized on the day of his birth.

9. John Locke also had an idea that people should be able to overthrow the government because they are free to reform the
legislative to create a new civil state that works in their interest.

10. John Locke closest female friend was the philosopher Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham. Before Lady Damaris was married, the
two had exchanged love poems. On his return from exile, Locke moved into Lady Damaris and her husband’s household.

reference: A. (2017, December 02). John Locke | 10 Facts About The Famous English Philosopher. Retrieved february 12, 2018,
from https://learnodo-newtonic.com/john-locke-facts
19/2/2018 (about John Locke)
Question: What is his main concept? How did john locke change the world?

Summary: John Locke changed and influenced the world in many ways. His political ideas like those in the Two Treatises of
Government, (such as civil, natural, and property rights and the job of the government to protect these rights), were put
into the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution. Locke's ideas of the separation of the
government's powers into legislative, executive, and federative were more fully developed by the French writer Montesquieu.
Montesquieu however changed them into legislative, executive, and judicial. These were then put into the American
Constitutions framing process.
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1. Natural Law and Natural Right

2. State of Nature

3. Property
4. Consent, Political Obligation, and the Ends of Government
5. Locke and Punishment
6. Separation of Powers and the Dissolution of Government
7. Toleration
References: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/

https://sites.google.com/site/lockevshobbeswhowillwin/home/who-was-john-locke
20/2/2018 (John locke’s works)
Question: What is his major work?

Summary: Locke also proposed a theory of property in the Two Treatises of Government. In these treatises, Locke wrote about
the birth of civil government. He thought that people can act evil and wicked, but people can self-regulate themselves and be
good. He recommended a system of checks and balances in government. He thought that the government should have three
branches: Legislative, Executive, and Federative. John Locke believed that divine right of the king is wrong and the people
should get to choose who rules by voting. Along with this, He claimed that revolting against the government, (if failed to
protect life, liberty, and property), was a right. He also stated the right to property is given to those who put hard work and
labor into it. More specifically, he views that "labor" and "ownership" are pretty much along the same lines.
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Another one of John Locke’s greatest works were his Letters on Toleration. In these letters, He had two main arguments. One
of these arguments was that a church should not have any to right to persecute anyone. Natural Rights should always remain
the way they are. Locke stated that the worst a church should be allowed to do is to expel the person from the church if that
person limits their power by the person not believing. His other argument was that the church can't be certain that their own
ways of teachers are the absolute truth. He believed that faith is mysterious and unknown so no man should be punished for
open-mindedness.

References:

Tuckness, A. (2016, January 11). Locke's Political Philosophy. Retrieved February 20,2018, from
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/

John Lockes Ideas and Major Works - locke and hobbes. (n.d.). Retrieved February 20, 2018, from
https://sites.google.com/site/lockevshobbeswhowillwin/home/who-was-john-locke