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University of Pittsburgh, Summer Term 1998
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Ben Eggleston, Instructor
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Philosophy 0320—CRN 01205: Social Philosophy (writing)
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mailbox: CL 1001—office: CL 1428E
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Mondays, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., in CL 340
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office hours: Sundays and Mondays, 4:45 p.m. to
5:45 p.m.
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Internet: http://www.pitt.edu/~jbest3/SP.html
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e-mail: jbest3+@pitt.edu
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Quiz no. 1, make-up no. 1
May 26, 1998
On the front of this sheet of paper, answer each of the following questions.
Provide a distinct answer for each question, numbering your answers as
you proceed. Before turning in your quiz, fold this sheet of paper in half,
lengthwise (i.e., so that the crease goes from top to botton, down the
middle), and write your name on the back. Only answers written on the front
will influence your grade, and nothing written on the front should reveal
your identity.
- What, in Hobbes’s view, makes an act voluntary? According to Hobbes,
when a bank teller surrenders cash to an armed robber, can the teller claim
that the surrender was not really voluntary, since the robber had a gun?
- What are the three causes of quarrel that Hobbes finds “in the nature
of man”?
- What does Hobbes say is the second law of nature?
- Under what circumstances is a covenant invalid, according to Hobbes?
- What is Hobbes’s definition of injustice?