POL215

held that political carrer has
nothing good to offer the
good man but will rather
extinguish his goodness

In the philosophy of Hobbes
man is essentially ___

Political thought establishes
the ____ upon which states
and their machineries can
be objectively assessed

___ is regarded as the
founder of Stoicism

Which of these is not
among the subjects to
which the ruler in Plato's
ideal state must be
exposed to?

According to Bodin, the
state is distinguished from
band of robbers only on the
fact that it exercises ____

Hobbes belief in absolute
monarchy led him to self
imposed
in Holland when
parliamentary authority was
established in England

The chief end or purpose of
man on earth, according to
Locke is ___

In the communist society,
distribution of surplus will
be based on everyone
according to

Both Rousseau and
Hobbes recognised ___ as
the highest law in the state
of nature

The debate concerning the
dual recognition authority of
the church and that of the
state is famously regarded
as

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

Hobbes defines
as the mortal god to which
we owe our peace and
defence under the immortal
God

According to Machiavelli
the good ruler must
possess the character of an
animal called

Aristophanes is famous for
defending the ____ nature
of Greek society

Hobbe's sovereign is
essentially ___ in exercise
of his authority

For Plato, the ideal state
must be built on

According to Epicureans
the wise man should avoid
except when compelled by
circumstances

The ultimate rulers in
Plato's political thought are
the ___

Marx holds that the state
exists to protect the interest
of the ____ class

The city state, according to
Plato and Aristotle, is
characterised by

The state of nature in
Hobbes is state in perpetual
___

Rousseau political thought
emphasised the primacy of
the ____ in determining
political authority

The theory that kings
derived their rights to rule
directly from God is known
as

J. S. Mill's hope of
forestalling the tyranny of
the majority lies in ___

Which of these is not
among the types of
commonwealth in which the
leviethan can operate
according to Hobbes?

Marx advocated the
transfer of ownership of
means of production to

To qualify as leader, Plato
holds that the philosopher
king must be educated until
he or she at least attains
the age of

Is the sovereign in Jean
Bodin accountable to his
subjects

The saying that the end
justifies the means is
derived from whose political
philosophy?

Cicero regarded __ and
___ as the inherent
qualities of law

In Aquianas political
thought, is a devout
Christian bound to obey the
orders of a pagan ruler

Which of these is not
among the best form of
government acoording to
Aristotle?

In political thought
philosophers are not only
concerned with objective
realities of a political
system but also what
should constitute the ____
state

The Leviathan was written
to promote political ___

The medieval political
system saw the joint
exercise of political power
between the emperor and
the ___

s the author of the City of
God

The enlightenment
philosophers placed so
much on the power of
to free man from
oppressive political and
religious systems

According to early Greek
writers, the corruption of
democracy leads to __

The practice of land
ownership held in fief by
serfs is called ____

The reformation author of
the Leviathan is

Aristotle considered the
pursuit of ___ as the end or
purose of state

___ brought about the fall
of men in Seneca's golden
age

Cicero holds the
as the greatest good of the
state

A government
characterised by honour
and ambition is regarded as
by Plato

Which of these is not
among the factors that
influenced man into
entering contract with his
fellows in Hobbes'
philosophy?

Political thought is regarded
as disciplined investigation
of political
that have interested
philosophers over the ages

According to Aristotle, the
state has its organic origin
in the

John Locke's works are
noted for their strong
aversion to

Hobbes' social contract is
an agreement between the
subject and ___