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According to Bodin, the state is distinguished from band of robbers only on the fact that it exercises ____
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Aquinas maintained that the main purpose of man on earth is the attainment of ___
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Which of these is not a thinker of the enlightenment?
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According to Cicero, all men are equal because they possess
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The practice of land ownership held in fief by serfs is called ____
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According to early Greek writers, the corruption of democracy leads to __
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A government characterised by honour and ambition is regarded as by Plato
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The first political thinker to insist that man has no supernatural end is ___
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contemplated an ideal state where women rather than men would be leaders
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According to Cicero, the law that governs other laws is known as the
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Which of these is not among the fathers of the church?
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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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is the sophist who first regarded all laws as social conventions rather than natural
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Both Rousseau and Hobbes recognised ___ as the highest law in the state of nature
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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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Marx holds that the state exists to protect the interest of the ____ class
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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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Marx borrowed the idea of dialectics from
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According to Aristotle, the state has its organic origin in the
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Code Napoleon ephasised that the state should not encroach on the individual of the citizens
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___ is regarded as the founder of Stoicism
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Marriage and ownership of property is the sole preserve of ___ in Plato's ideal state
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The citizens of the world state of the stoics consist of __ and ___
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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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Hobbes defines as the mortal god to which we owe our peace and defence under the immortal God
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Political thought establishes the ____ upon which states and their machineries can be objectively assessed
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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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Aristotle considered the pursuit of ___ as the end or purose of state
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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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The constitution which governs the stoics' world state is
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In Jean Bodin, citizenship is due mainly to ___
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Marx effectively argued that the injustice of the capitalists consists in ____
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To qualify as leader, Plato holds that the philosopher king must be educated until he or she at least attains the age of
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Karl Marx attributes the emergence of state to emergence of ____
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According to the epicureans, the natural guiding principle of all men is
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In Hegel's political thought, the individual actualises his material and spiritual needs in the __
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is the Latin word that expresses the power of the Roman king
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Another name for the Greek city states is
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Historical idealism is to Hegel as ___ is to Marx
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Rousseau political thought emphasised the primacy of the ____ in determining political authority
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In the Hobbessian commonwealth, the leviethan is not a party to the
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s the author of the City of God
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Aristotle regards as the highest form of government
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is said to be the first to discuss politics and society without any recourse to ethics and jurisprudence
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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 ____
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Which of these is not among the powers of the sovereign as ascribed to by Jean Bodin?
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In political thought philosophers are not only concerned with objective realities of a political system but also what should constitute the ____ state
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held that man is a citizen of two cities
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Cicero holds the as the greatest good of the state
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In the philosophy of Karl Marx, interest determines human values
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