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WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx) (MPSE-003)
Tutor Marked Assignment
Assignment Code: ASST/ MPSE-003/2022-23
Marks: 100
Answer any five questions in about 500 words each. Attempt at least two
questions from each section. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION –I
1. Write a note on the significance and relevance of western political thought.
2. Evaluate Plato’s political philosophy. What was his contribution to western political
thought?
3. Explain St. Thomas Aquinas’s views on law and the state and the relations between
the Church and the State.
4. Analyse Machiavelli’s thoughts on politics and forms of government.
5. Discuss in brief Locke’s political theory.
SECTION –II
Write a short note on each part of the question in about 250 words.
6. a) Rousseau on civil society and social contract
b) Edmund Burke on democracy and religion
7. a) Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy
b) Jeremy Bentham and utilitarian principles
8. a) Alexis de Tocqueville on religion
b) John Stuart Mill on rights for women
9. a) John Stuart Mill on individual liberty
b) Hegel’s philosophy of history
10. a) Marx’s vision of a communist society
b) Marx’s theory of historical materialism
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