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ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!! AQA PLY4 &PLY5 tomorrow!!!

i honestly dont mean to sound like a shrill hysterical girlie, but I really REALLY am right now!!!

i think im having that kinda last minute panic thing. Ive had approximately 34 hours since my last exam in which I could have revised this bloody philosophy but noooooo- Ive done everything- I mean EVERYTHING I can to avoid it. I even cooked my brother and his 6 mates a whole buffet meal for their lads night (DAMNED GCSES finished already).
I cant believe this.
ALL my friends are out tonight too, coz they all finished...which is quite tempting....
I dont know anything!! my minds gona go blank!! i cant answer any past papers, I dont kno the concepts, I dont think I even know whats on the flippin syllabus. My bloomin teacher went on maternity leave. The school had 9 months to find someone else 9!!! but, instead they gave us this other bloke to teach us everything in about 2 months. He is really nice and gave us loads of good stuff to read. but its loadsss!! and i dont know anything. ARGHHH!!!

OK...I know...from now on people have to write 3 useful (random) pieces of information in response to this thread. Preferabley for the AQA Political Philosophy & Mill exams tomorrow!!! yea...that should help. I'll start...

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Hobbes felt that we need a social contract because lives of men were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

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Having a legal obligation is to be subject to a command and there is punishment for failing to meet it.

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Bentham felt that natural rights were "nonsense on stilts" and that positive rights come from positive law, backed by sanctions.

your turn...

Reply 1

HearTheThunder

Marxists constantly go on about how ideology --> manufactured consent
Free markets inevitably lead to inequality
Nihilism is groovy for questions on rights

Reply 2

student786

state is a politcal entity which claims control over a people and geographical area.
social contract is the mutual agreement between individuals and the government
mill is obesessed with the harm principle lol

Reply 3

yellow96

So screwed.. I really don't think I can get an A. I only need a B.. but I don't think I can get that either. Ok here goes:

Max Weber stated three sources for legitimation of authority - rational/legal, traditional and charismatic.

The notion of positive freedom is "freedom to" and is supported largely by conservatives and socialists, while negative freedom is "freedom from" and is supported by liberals.

The Kantian approach to rights as set out by Richard Dworkin sees a moral obligation to ensure human dignity and political equality in so much as the weak are entitled to the same concerns as the strong.

I had to check my notes for the last one, but the first two were off the top of my head. I tried to get something from three specific areas.

Good luck everyone. Try to keep the grade boundary nice and low though.

Reply 4

coldplasma

Assess the view that Thomas Hobbes went to live with his auntie and uncle in bel-air.

I am 100% positive this will come up, and I haven't revised the bits on Bel-Air and Will Smith.

Reply 5

HearTheThunder

coldplasma

Assess the view that Thomas Hobbes went to live with his auntie and uncle in bel-air.

I am 100% positive this will come up, and I haven't revised the bits on Bel-Air and Will Smith.

I could definitely do that. His uncle and auntie in bel-air are clearly metaphor for the Leviathan, and Hobbes definitely would wanna live with the Leviathan. Sicko.