“An unexamined life is not worth living.” 🏛️
He wrote zero books, charged zero fees for teaching, and yet laid the foundation for all of Western philosophy. Socrates walked the streets of Athens challenging assumptions, pioneering the method of relentless questioning, and ultimately choosing death over compromising his intellectual integrity.
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Forwarded from CUET PG MA Political Science and IR
Who defined rights as "those conditions of social life without which no man can seek, in general, to be himself at his best"?
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33%
T.H. Green
44%
Harold Laski
6%
Bosanquet
17%
Bentham
Forwarded from CUET PG MA Political Science and IR
Which thinker called the theory of Natural Rights "a rhetorical non-sense upon stilts"?
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29%
John Locke
44%
Jeremy Bentham
17%
Edmund Burke
10%
Karl Marx
Forwarded from MA in Political Science DUET 2022
According to the Marxist Theory of Rights, what is the correct priority order?
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16%
Political → Social → Economic
40%
Economic → Social → Political
24%
Social → Political → Economic
20%
Economic → Political → Social
The Historical Theory of Rights is also known as:
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16%
Functional Theory
21%
Prescriptive Theory
28%
Deontological Theory
35%
Idealist Theory
Which Article of the Indian Constitution is called the "Heart and Soul of the Constitution" by Dr. Ambedkar?
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16%
Article 14
9%
Article 21
71%
Article 32
4%
Article 19
Forwarded from DU BA Political Science | Padhai with Guru Chela (PWGC)
Which of the following is a criticism of the Historical Theory of Rights?
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9%
It makes the state absolute
64%
Not all customs are just (e.g., Sati is not a right)
13%
The term "welfare" is too vague
15%
It is unenforceable in the state of nature
Forwarded from MA in Political Science DUET 2022
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the UN General Assembly on:
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3%
15 August 1947
13%
26 January 1950
67%
10 December 1948
17%
24 October 1945
Which pair correctly matches a theory of rights with its proponent?
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9%
Natural Rights — Karl Marx
19%
Legal Rights — Edmund Burke
45%
Historical Theory — Edmund Burke
27%
Social Welfare Theory — John Locke
Isaiah Berlin's classification, "freedom from interference" (e.g., freedom from torture) is an example of:
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29%
Positive Right
45%
Negative Right
11%
Contractual Right
15%
Legal Right
Which of the following correctly distinguishes Part III and Part IV of the Indian Constitution?
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11%
Part III is non-justiciable; Part IV is justiciable
76%
Part III = Negative Rights (justiciable); Part IV = Positive Rights (non-justiciable)
5%
Both Part III and Part IV are equally enforceable in courts
7%
Part IV contains the Fundamental Rights
What is real, and what is merely a shadow on the wall? 🕯️🏛️
Student to Socrates and mentor to Aristotle, Plato didn't just preserve his master's dialogues—he founded The Academy in Athens, Western civilization's first organized institution of higher learning. From The Republic to the Allegory of the Cave, his ideas continue to shape modern politics, justice, and metaphysics.
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The man who tutored Alexander the Great and classified the physical world. 📜⚡
After 20 years studying under Plato, Aristotle carved his own empirical path. He founded the Lyceum, walked while lecturing (giving birth to the "Peripatetic" school), and wrote foundational texts on logic, biology, ethics, and politics that guided human knowledge for over a millennium.
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“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” 📜✨
From a rebellious rhetorician in Roman North Africa to one of the most influential thinkers in intellectual history, St. Augustine of Hippo bridged classical Greek philosophy and early Christian theology.
His introspective masterpiece, Confessions, essentially created the genre of Western autobiography, while The City of God offered a profound philosophy of history amidst the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
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“Grace does not destroy nature, but perfects it.” ⚖️📖
Known as the Doctor Angelicus, St. Thomas Aquinas pulled off one of the greatest intellectual feats of the Middle Ages: proving that faith and reason are not enemies, but allies.
Defying his noble family to live as a mendicant Dominican friar, Aquinas harmonized Aristotle’s empirical logic with Christian theology. His monumental work, Summa Theologiae, built the foundation of Natural Law theory, shaping centuries of Western philosophy, law, and ethics.
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Forwarded from CUET PG MA Political Science and IR
Who discussed about 'Social Contract' in his 'Science of Economics'?
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43%
Karl Marx
22%
B.R. Ambedkar
29%
Kautilya
5%
Jawaharlal Nehru
Forwarded from CUET PG MA Political Science and IR
Ever wondered about the brilliant (and fiercely realistic) mind behind Leviathan? 👑🧠
Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most influential figures in political philosophy, best known for laying down the groundwork for Social Contract Theory and famously describing the state of nature as
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Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most influential figures in political philosophy, best known for laying down the groundwork for Social Contract Theory and famously describing the state of nature as
"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
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Forwarded from MA in Political Science DUET 2022
Ever wondered who laid the foundational stones for modern democracy, individual liberty, and the famous idea of the "consent of the governed"?
Meet John Locke, the brilliant 17th-century English philosopher widely hailed as the Father of Liberalism! 📜 His revolutionary concepts on natural rights (life, liberty, and property) fundamentally transformed political theory and directly inspired modern democratic constitutions across the globe.
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"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Meet Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the radical 18th-century Genevan philosopher whose revolutionary ideas shook the foundations of European politics and deeply influenced the French Revolution! 🇫🇷
From introducing the powerful concept of the General Will in The Social Contract (1762) to challenging conventional education and societal inequality, Rousseau fundamentally changed how we think about democracy, freedom, and community. 👥✨
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