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Political Thought Questions and Answers

111.

Which one of the following is correct regarding the writings of Machiavelli ?

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: D

All three works are by Machiavelli, so the answer is (D). The Discourses on Livy is his study of republican government, The Art of War is a treatise on military organisation, and The Golden Ass (L'Asino d'oro) is a satirical poem in the style of Apuleius.

Since each of (A), (B) and (C) is a work of his, none alone is the complete answer.

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112.

Plato developed his theory of the nature of the ultimate reality explaining the actual world in

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: D

Plato developed his theory of the nature of ultimate reality, explaining how the actual world is formed, in the Timaeus, which gives an account of the creation of the world by the Demiurge. The answer is (D).

The Republic sets out the ideal state and the theory of Forms, the Laws is his last and more practical work on the state, and the Politics is the work of Aristotle, not Plato.

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113.

Identify the correct sequence in ascending order of Lenin's writings :

i. Left Wing Communism
ii. The State and Revolution
iii. the Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
iv. The War and the Second International
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: A

The ascending order of Lenin's writings is 'The War and the Second International' (1915), 'The State and Revolution' (1917), 'The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky' (1918) and 'Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder' (1920), that is iv, ii, iii, i. The answer is (A).

The other codes begin with Left Wing Communism, the latest of the four, or place the Renegade Kautsky before The State and Revolution, which is not the order of writing.

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114.

Marx's theory of the state and revolution is taken from

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Answer: C

The key gives (C), the French revolutionary tradition, as the source of Marx's theory of the state and revolution. Marx drew on the experience of the French Revolution and the revolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune, from which he drew the lesson that the working class must break the existing state machine and not merely take it over.

German classical philosophy gave him dialectics, and British political economy gave him the analysis of capital, which are different parts of his work. The American war of independence is not named as a source of his theory of the state.

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115.

Aristotle devoted himself to a critical study of the ideal states projected by

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UGC NET - 2014,

Answer: D

In Book II of the Politics Aristotle makes a critical study of the ideal states proposed by Phaleas of Chalcedon, Hippodamus of Miletus and Plato (in the Republic and the Laws). So the answer is (D), all the above.

Each of (A), (B) and (C) names only one of these writers, so none alone is the complete answer. Phaleas proposed equal property, Hippodamus a planned city with a mixed constitution, and Plato the rule of philosophers.

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