What Was the Intellectual, Social, and Philosophical Basis for How

question 5

Multiple Choice

What was the intellectual, social, and philosophical basis for how the Europeans justified their actions towards the so-called native peoples in Asia and elsewhere?

• A) They used Karl Marx's concepts of exploiting the successful capitalists to enrich the less productive members of society.
• B) They used the pseudo-scientific application of Darwin's "survival of the fittest" concept regarding other races.
• C) They used John Locke's concepts of liberty and free-will for determining the method of local rule.
• D) They used Jean Jacques Rousseau's belief that society corrupted the young as an excuse to be paternalistic.
• E) They used Thomas Jefferson's views on how to rule a large nation as a republic with democratic institutions.

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