List of top Political Science Questions on Political Thinkers asked in AILET PhD

Which of the following is not true about Rabindranath Tagore's conception of Freedom?

Which of the following are attributable to V.D. Savarkar? I. Mitra Mela II. Mazzini Charitra III. We or Our Nationhood Defined IV. Hindu-Pad-Padshahi Choose the correct option from below:

M.N. Roy intermixed Marxism with which of the following ideologies in his political thought:

Which of the following are three pillars of soft power according to Joseph Nye?
I. Culture
II. Political Values
III. Foreign Policy
IV. Diaspora
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Who among the following argued that in international relations "Anarchy is the rule; Order, Justice and Morality are the exceptions"?

Match List-I (Concepts) with List-II (Thinkers) and give the answers using the code given below:

List-I
I. Robert Cox	a. List-II Social Forces, States and World Orders'
II. Alexander Wendt	b. Anarchy is What States Make of it
III. David Mitrany	c. A Working Peace System
IV. Richard Ashley	d. Untying the Sovereign State

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Which of the following thinkers propounded the concept of 'constructive conflict?

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List-I	List-II
I. Semantic sting	a. Michael Foucault
II. Possessive individualism	b. Michael Walzer
III. Complex equality	c. C.B. Machpherson
IV. Bio politics	d. Dworkin

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Which of the following is not among the five stages of Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs'?

Consider the following statements about Rousseau's political philosophy:
I. Man is characterised by the two natural sentiments of self-love and pity 
II. Amour propre develops only in society 
III. Amour de soi and Amour propre is the same 
IV. Human beings are not capable of free will or free choice 
Which of the above are correct?

Which one of the following thinkers credited Jeremy Bentham with creating 'Panopticon' as a new technology of power?

Which of the following is not true with regard to John Rawls's theory of Justice?
I. Justice is the first virtue of a good society and the only sufficient condition of a good society. 
II. Primary goods include rights and liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth, means of self-respect etc. 
III. His theory is substantive theory of justice. IV. He supported utilitarianism in constructing his theory of justice. 
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Niccolo Machiavelli frequently refers to which historical figure in "The Prince' to clucidate his political theories?

Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List-I	List-II
I. Peter Laslett	a. Death of Political Theory
II. George Berkeley	b. Subjective Idealism
III. Michael Oakeshott	c. Political Education
IV. Leo Strauss	d. heological Political Predicament

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Which set of thinkers below belong to the Neo-Marxist school of thought?

Which among the following thinkers said, "Covenants without swords are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all"?

Which one of the following thinkers is credited with the idea of "eudaimonia"?

Which of the following is true for Plato's theory of forms?
I. The theory creates a dualism between the empirical world of sensation and non-empirical, non-sensory world of forms. 
II. Forms can be visualised because they are objects of sensation. 
III. The form of all forms is what Plato calls the good. 
IV. Form exists as transcendental realities. 
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Consider the following in the context of Aristotle's idea of happiness:
I. It is the result of reason alone. 
II. It is the result of reason plus action, not reason alone. 
III. The end or telos of humans as ethical beings is happiness. 
IV. Happiness is not a virtue. 
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Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List-I	List-II
I. Immanuel Kant II	a. Defensor Pacis
II. Plato	b. Critique of Pure Reason
III. Marsilius of Padua	c. De Re Republic
IV. Cicero	d. Meno

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