POL215

According to the cynics, the
most important of all human
concerns is ___

The idea that progress in
arts and sciences has led to
idleness, inequality and
luxury was promoted by

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 ___

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

man is born free, but is
everywhere in chains, is a
saying attributed to

In Jean Bodin, citizenship is
due mainly to ___

s the author of Two
Treatises of Government

Cicero holds the
as the greatest good of the
state

The Leviathan was written
to promote political ___

Machiavelli's political
thought freed Kings from
the shackles of

In Aristotle's ideal state
which category f people
should not be granted
citizenship

held that man is a citizen of
two cities

The men in Locke's state of
nature exist in condition of
total ___

Machiavelli's famous book
that swept aside all moral
considerations for rulers is
known as ___

The era of
insisted that all
ecclesiastical authorities
must be under civil
authorities

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

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

Marriage and ownership of
property is the sole
preserve of ___ in Plato's
ideal state

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

Aristotle's Politics studied
the constitution of over
constitutions

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

fled the city of Athens to
escape murder and prevent
Athens from committing its
second sin against
philosophy

A theory of action
developed by Bentham is
known as ____

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

Rousseau's book on the
education of the citizens
women should be trained to
be ___ and ___

The constitution which
governs the stoics' world
state is

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

Marx advocated the
transfer of ownership of
means of production to

According to Jeremy
Bentham, man's two
sovereign masters are ___
and ___

The state of nature in
Hobbes is state in perpetual
___

The theory that our social
status, either as slaves or
as nobility, was neither a
product of nature nor the
gods, was first promoted in
the Greek society by the
____

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

Hegel considers
as the actuality of concrete
freedom

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

Historical idealism is to
Hegel as ___ is to Marx

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

Cicero defined true law as
right reason in agreement
with

is reputed as the teacher of
Aristotle

Despite his possession of
absolute power, the Roman
king was bound to gover his
state on the advise of __

In the Hobbessian
commonwealth, the
leviethan is not a party to
the

The rule of the best
members of society is
known as

The enlightenement
advocate of utilitarianism is
known as

Machiavelli pioneered the
application of
method in the study of
politics

According to Aquinas,
another name for divine law
is ___

Aristotle viewed slaves as
piece of live

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

For Plato, the ideal state
must be built on

held that an individual who
can live by himself alone,
outside the polis, is either a
beast or a god

In Locke's political thought,
all men are God's ____

The principle of check and
balances among levels of
government was introduced
by

The only condition for
peace in the
commonwealth as
advocated by Hobbes is for
all to surrender their powers
and rights to ____

Hobbes' the Leviathan was
a ___account of human
nature and knowledge

Complete this saying of J.
S. Mill “over himself, his
body and mind, the
individual is ___"

In Hegel's political thought,
the individual actualises his
material and spiritual needs
in the __

According to Marsilio's two
good lives, the first good life
consists of proper study of

According to Cicero, all
men are equal because
they possess

Marx effectively argued that
the injustice of the
capitalists consists in ____

The first political thinker to
insist that man has no
supernatural end is ___

In Aristophanes' political
thought, democracy should
be replaced with

Karl Marx attributes the
emergence of state to
emergence of ____

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

s the author of the City of
God

____, according to Locke,
teaches all mankind that no
one ought to harm another
in his life, health, liberty or
possessions

In Plato's political thought,
which of these is not among
the three classes of people
in the state?

is said to be the first to
discuss politics and society
without any recourse to
ethics and jurisprudence

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

The conflict between the
private and public interest,
according to Hegel is
resolved by the

The dominant socio-political
and economic system in the
middle ages is

Aquinas maintained that the
main purpose of man on
earth is the attainment of
___

Aquianas regarded
as having supremacy over
the state

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

Seneca conceived the
greater state which all
humans belong to as

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

The citizens of the world
state of the stoics consist of
__ and ___

In Hobbes' state of nature
man is governed by ___

In the philosophy of Karl
Marx,
interest determines human
values

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

Marx borrowed the idea of
dialectics from

Rousseau believed that the
natural man is naturally ___

Cicero regarded __ and
___ as the inherent
qualities of law

According to the
epicureans, the natural
guiding principle of all men
is

is the Latin word that
expresses the power of the
Roman king

The principle that men
collectively or individually
should not interfere with the
liberty of action of anyone
except for self protection is
known as
principle

The most defining element
of an ideal state in Aristotle
is ____

As a young student, Marx
embraced ___ which
greatly influenced his future
writings

The Hobbessian law is
basically a ____

Marsilio held that in addition
to its truth, religion has
consequences

Is the sovereign in Jean
Bodin accountable to his
subjects

In the philosophy of Hobbes
man is essentially ___

Jean Bodin's idea of
property includes, father,
mother, children, servants
and

In the greater state of
Seneca, the commonwealth
is bound by morals and
instead of laws

In Socrates' philosophy,
knowledge is equated with

According to Karl Marx,
obedience to the state is
absurd. Therefore, the state
should be overthrown
through a

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

Happiness is defined by
as the avoidance of pains,
worry and axiety

Aristotle held that the state
was originally formed to
satisfy ____

The major characteristic of
the soldier in Plato's ideal
state is ____

Aristophanes is famous for
defending the ____ nature
of Greek society

contemplated an ideal state
where women rather than
men would be leaders

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

The reformation author of
the Leviathan is

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

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

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

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

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

The school where Plato
taught his political and
other theories is known as
the__________

Which of these is not
among the fathers of the
church?

Aquianas' name for the type
of law which is a reflection
of divine wisdom in created
things is ____

Code Napoleon ephasised
that the state should not
encroach on the individual
of the citizens

___ is regarded as the
founder of Stoicism

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

Epicureans believe that the
do not care about men and
do not interfer either for
good or bad in their affairs

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

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

Politics was defined by
Aristotle as extension of

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

tyranny rather than political
tyranny, in the view of J. S.
Mill poses more challenge
to modern nations

Which of these is not a
thinker of the
enlightenment?

Jean Bodin held that for the
power kings to remain
unquestioned his rules
must conform to ____

The defining element of
capitalist labour, according
to Marx, is that it engenders
___

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

Do the individuals in
Hobbes' commonwealth
possess the right to rebel
against their ruler?

is the sophist who first
regarded all laws as social
conventions rather than
natural

Which of these is not
among the powers of the
sovereign as ascribed to by
Jean Bodin?

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

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

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

revolution resulted in the
transfer of power from the
king to the parliament

Which of these is not
among the basic rights of
individuals in John Locke?

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

The soldiers in Plato's state
corresponds with
part of the human body

A bad form of government
where property and wealth
determine who rules is ___

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

___ is the propounder of
harm principle

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

Another name for the Greek
city states is

According to Rousseau, the
real and only man of virtue
is the

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

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

The presence of ___ is the
most distinguishing factor
between the state and other
associations in the political
thought of Jean Bodin

____ is refered as the
father of comparative
politics

Marx holds that it is under
communism that the
highest stage of
will emerge

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

The author of Introduction
to the Principles of Morals
and Legislation is

Western political thought is
said to have its origin in
_____

According to Cicero, the
law that governs other laws
is known as the

The theory that securing
the greatest happiness of
the greatest number of
people is the duty of
government is known as
___

Aristotle regards
as the highest form of
government

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