Analyzing Oppression by Ann E. Cudd

These flashcards cover key concepts related to oppression and modern liberalism as presented in the lecture notes.

Oppression did not become an important topic in political philosophy until the advent of __.

liberalism and the idea that humans are roughly morally equal.

Hobbes claims that nature made men so __ in the faculties of body and mind.

equal.

According to Hobbes, fear of oppression drives a man to __ by society.

seek aid.

Rousseau specifically denies that oppression is possible in the __.

state of nature.

Oppression requires the ability for one person to do the work of __ and the artifice of money.

two.

Locke opposed Hobbes’s view by arguing that unlimited sovereign power is the cause of __.

political oppression.

In the modern period, oppression was often used to refer to __ repression and domination.

political.

Hume noted that the laborious poor pay a considerable part of the taxes by their annual __.

consumptions.

The Declaration of Independence includes bad treatment such as making bad or unjust laws and __ with elected representatives.

interference.

Nineteenth-century conceptions of oppression see a shift from a purely political conception to a __ conception.

social.

Wollstonecraft used the term oppression to refer to the denial of equal education and equal __ to women.

freedoms.

Mill argued that society can execute wrong mandates that lead to a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of __ oppression.

political.

Hegel introduced the idea of psychological domination as a cause of __.

oppression.

Marx's theory shifted the focus of oppression to its __ basis in the economic system.

causal.

Marx defined alienation as a separation from something essential, including the product of __.

labor.

Mill's view held that oppression fundamentally denies individuals equal __.

liberty.

Hegel’s master/slave dialectic suggests that humans strive for __ recognition.

mutual.

False consciousness represents a psychological harm where individuals mistakenly believe that their social conditions are __.

natural.

Freud's psychoanalytic theory suggests that oppression is a psychological phenomenon stemming from __ development.

biological.

Oppression names a social injustice that is perpetrated through social institutions, practices, and __.

norms.

The definition of oppression involves a harm arising from an institutional practice, a social group identity, benefiting privileged groups, and __ coercion.

unjustified.

A comprehensive account of oppression must characterize not only the harms of oppression but also the __ of those harms.

causes.