MPSE-3 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (FROM PLATO TO MARX) (MPSE-003)

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MPSE-003

Assignment Code: ASST/TMA/2025-26

Marks: 100

Note: Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each question is to be answered in about 500 words and carries 20 marks each

. SECTION – I

1. Discuss the relationship between political thought and political science.
2. Examine Plato’s Theory of Ideas.
3. Elaborate upon Aristotle’s methodology.
4. What is St. Thomas Aquinas’s Grand Synthesis? Explain.
5. Write a note on Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’.

SECTION – II

6.Write a short note in each of the following in about 250 words.

(b) 7. (a) (b) 8. (a) (b) 9. (a) (b) 10. (a) (b)

(a)Hobbes on the state of nature

(b)Locke on Social Contract and Civil society

7.(a)  Rousseau’s Theory of General will

(b) Critique of Edmund Burke

8.(a) Kant’s formulations of the categorical imperative

(b)‘The Panopticon’

9.(a)Tocqueville’s views on Democracy and Revolution

(b) J. S. Mill on women’s rights

10.(a) Hegel’s philosophy of History

(b)Historical Materialism