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WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx) (MPSE-003)
Tutor Marked Assignment
Course Code: MPSE-003
Assignment Code: ASST/TMA/2024-25
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. How is Political thought distinguished from political theory and political philosophy?
Explain.
2. Discuss St. Thomas Aquina’s understanding of the relationship between the Church and
the State.
3. Comment on the following statement of J.S. Mill: “It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied
than a fool satisfied.”
4. What has been St. Augustine’s influence on western political thought? Examine.
5. Elaborate upon Machiavelli’s classification of governments.
SECTION –II
Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words.
6. a) Thomas Hobbes on the rights and duties of sovereign
b) Bentham’s political philosophy
7. a) J.S. Mill on Representative Government
b) Edmund Burke’s views on Religion and Toleration
8. a) Immanuel Kant’s transcendental–idealist view of human nature
b) Alexis de Tocqueville on religion
9. a) Plato’s methodology
b) Hegel’s theory of state
10. a) Marx’s Historical Materialism
b) John Locke on social contract and civil society
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