Английский язык. Мехеда О.Б. - 16 стр.

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15. Say whether the following statements are right or wrong (use the
helpers from Unit I (ex.12):
1. Thomas Hobbes didn't differ from his predecessors in ascribing a
fundamental equality to all men.
2. Hobbes states that people are equally interested in acquiring power and
privilege and the goods.
3. According to Hobbes's social contract, one man can embody the
collective will of the people.
4. The sovereign must not be restricted in his role.
5. The sovereign may be removed if he is unable to protect the safety of all
people.
6. Later social philosophers realized that there emerged social strata based
on acquired differences.
7. In the 17th century there existed only theories about the natural rights of
all men to equality in wealth.
16. Retell the text using the following key words and expressions:
predecessor, equality in ..., to be interested in acquiring power and
privilege, a social contract, to turn the right over to, to embody, restricted by
law, minority/majority, to protect the safety of all men, emergence of classes,
inherited/acquired differences, to deal with, the natural rights of men.
17. Summarize the text in 8-6 sentences.
UNIT 5
1 . Read the text and try to understand it:
Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer
19th century France was an unsettling time for that nation's intellectuals.
The French monarchy had been thrown off earlier in the revolution of 1789, and
Napoleon had been defeated in his effort to conquer Europe. In this chaos,
philosophers considered how society might be improved. Auguste Comte (1798-
1857), the most influential of these philosophers of the early 1800s, believed that
a theoretical science of society and systematic study of behaviour were needed to
improve society.
Comte coined the term sociology to apply to the science of human
behaviour. He was sure that sociology could make a critical contribution to a new
and improved human community. Writing in the 1800s, Comte feared that
France's stability had been permanently worsened by the excesses of the French
revolution. Yet he hoped that the study of social behaviour in a systematic way
would lead to more rational human interactions. In Comte's hierarchy of sciences,
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