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POL215
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Political thought is regarded as disciplined investigation of political that have interested philosophers over the ages
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In Aquianas political thought, is a devout Christian bound to obey the orders of a pagan ruler
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Hobbes' the Leviathan was a ___account of human nature and knowledge
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The medieval political system saw the joint exercise of political power between the emperor and the ___
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Marx holds that it is under communism that the highest stage of will emerge
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In Socrates' philosophy, knowledge is equated with
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Aristotle considered the pursuit of ___ as the end or purose of state
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The citizens of the world state of the stoics consist of __ and ___
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Rousseau believed that the first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said, “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of
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Complete this saying of J. S. Mill “over himself, his body and mind, the individual is ___"
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The men in Locke's state of nature exist in condition of total ___
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tyranny rather than political tyranny, in the view of J. S. Mill poses more challenge to modern nations
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Both Rousseau and Hobbes recognised ___ as the highest law in the state of nature
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revolution resulted in the transfer of power from the king to the parliament
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Unless the state is a community for ethical purposes it is nothing more than a highway robbery on large scale, is a view attributed to ___
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The state of nature in Hobbes is state in perpetual ___
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Another name for the Greek city states is
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The saying that the end justifies the means is derived from whose political philosophy?
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Machiavelli's political thought freed Kings from the shackles of
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Seneca conceived the greater state which all humans belong to as
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Which of these is not among the fathers of the church?
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Karl Marx attributes the emergence of state to emergence of ____
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The soldiers in Plato's state corresponds with part of the human body
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The theory that securing the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people is the duty of government is known as ___
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According to Aristotle, the state has its organic origin in the
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Which of these is not among the factors that influenced man into entering contract with his fellows in Hobbes' philosophy?
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Aristotle held that the state was originally formed to satisfy ____
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Jean Bodin held that for the power kings to remain unquestioned his rules must conform to ____
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Politics was defined by Aristotle as extension of
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Do the individuals in Hobbes' commonwealth possess the right to rebel against their ruler?
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Machiavelli pioneered the application of method in the study of politics
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Marriage and ownership of property is the sole preserve of ___ in Plato's ideal state
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The first political thinker to insist that man has no supernatural end is ___
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The defining element of capitalist labour, according to Marx, is that it engenders ___
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The author of Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is
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Marx effectively argued that the injustice of the capitalists consists in ____
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held that an individual who can live by himself alone, outside the polis, is either a beast or a god
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In the Hobbessian commonwealth, the leviethan is not a party to the
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The constitution which governs the stoics' world state is
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The enlightenment philosophers placed so much on the power of to free man from oppressive political and religious systems
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According to Cicero, the law that governs other laws is known as the
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Marx borrowed the idea of dialectics from
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The city state, according to Plato and Aristotle, is characterised by
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Aristotle's Politics studied the constitution of over constitutions
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held that man is a citizen of two cities
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In Aristophanes' political thought, democracy should be replaced with
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Historical idealism is to Hegel as ___ is to Marx
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The chief end or purpose of man on earth, according to Locke is ___
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s the author of Two Treatises of Government
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The presence of ___ is the most distinguishing factor between the state and other associations in the political thought of Jean Bodin
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