SECTION –I

1. Discuss the major contents of western political thought. What is the significance of western political thought?

2. Explain J. S. Mill’s contribution to liberalism and equal rights for women.

3. Examine Aristotle’s theory of Justice.

4. Explain St. Thomas Aquinas’ views on law and the state.

5. Discuss Machiavelli’s doctrine of self-aggrandizement-- "the ends justify the means."

SECTION –II

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

6. a) Thomas Hobbes on the state of nature and natural rights b) John Lock on consent, resistance and toleration

7. a) Rousseau’s critique of civil society b) Edmund Burke’s views on citizenship

8. a) Immanuel Kant on property, social contract and the state b) Jeremy Bentham’s political philosophy

9. a) Alex De Tocqueville on democracy, revolution and the modern State b) Rousseau’s General Will

10. a) Hegel’s philosophy of history b) Marx’s theory of alienation