POL215

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

In the philosophy of Karl
Marx,
interest determines human
values

Machiavelli pioneered the
application of
method in the study of
politics

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

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

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

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

In Aristophanes' political
thought, democracy should
be replaced with

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

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

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

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

Aristotle viewed slaves as
piece of live

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

Cicero regarded __ and
___ as the inherent
qualities of law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another name for the Greek
city states is

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

The constitution which
governs the stoics' world
state is

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

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

The rule of the best
members of society is
known as

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

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

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

Aristotle held that the state
was originally formed to
satisfy ____

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

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

Hegel considers
as the actuality of concrete
freedom

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

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

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
____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A theory of action
developed by Bentham is
known as ____

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

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