Political Philosophy
to answer any five of the following question, each questions should be answered in two pages.
1- What is plato’s myth of the metals? What function does it play in the sustaining of his ideal city?
2- Aristotle distinguishes between normal and corrupt forms of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. What criteria constitute political normality and corruption?
3- Aristotle think that some people are by nature slaves. On what basis does he claim this?
4- For Machiavelli, founding a principality involves different, and more difficult, question than maintaining one. Why is this so?
5- Conditions in Hobbes’ state of nature are such that human beings have no choice but to exit it and create civil society. What is wrong in Hobbes’ state of nature?
6- For Locke, property exists in the state of nature. How do people create property and how do they know it is theirs?
7- Rousseau sees human development as a series of degeneration from its original, superior condition. What are the key stages in this degeneration?
8- When do we know when government acts in ways consistent with Rousseau’s "General Will"
9- Mill defends the individual against pressures of convention and even coercion practiced by the wider society. For what reasons does Mill consider the protection of the individual to be more important than the social preferences?
10- What, to Marx, "The power of Money in Bourgeois Society"?