Attempt all the problems in about 500 words each. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’
Section A
1. Discuss relationship between political thought and political science.
2. prepare the essay on Locke’s views on Social Contract and civil society.
3. Give the overview of Tocqueville’s views on democracy, revolution and the modern state.
4. What is Plato’s theory of forms or ideas? Elaborate.
5. describe the major political ideas of St. Augustine.
Section B
prepare the short note on the following:
6. a) Machiavelli’s Doctrine of Aggrandisement
b) Thomas Hobbes on civil and natural law
7. a) Rousseau’s Theory of General Will
b) Edmund Burke on citizenship and democracy
8. a) Kant’s views on the human nature
b) ‘The Panopticon’ (Bentham)
9. a) Mill on representative government
b) Hegel’s dialectical method
10. a) Marx’s vision of communist society
b) Marx’s theory of revolution