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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
M.A.POLITICAL SCIENCE (CUCSS)
1st SEMESTER
Model Question Paper
COURSE: PS1C01: MODERN WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Time: 3 Hours Total Weightage: 36
Group A :
Answer all questions in 1 or 2 sentences each.
1. What was Thomas Hobbes’ greatest contribution to Political Philosophy?
2. How is Locke’s idea of State of Nature fundamentally different that of Hobbes?
3. What is the difference between “Actual Will” and “Real Will”?

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4. What are the “two sovereign masters” according to Jeremy Bentham?
5. Why J.S.Mill is considered as a Liberal Democrat?
6. How did Hegel use the concept of “Geist” in his philosophy of dialectics?
7. Is Edmund Burke a Conservative or a Reformist Political thinker?
8. What is the fundamental element of Marx’s Dialectics?
9. How is ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’ related?
10. According to Lenin, what is the relationship between Imperialism and Capitalism?
11. What is your idea about the concept of “Justice as fairness”?
12. With what concept did Gramsci replenish Marxian theory?
13. Did industrial revolution contribute to Political Thought in any way?
14. In modern Western Political Philosophy, where do you trace the birth of Democracy? Weightage: 14 x 1 = 14

Group B :
Answer any 7 questions in a paragraph each.
15. Why it is said that Hobbes’ State of Nature is both pre-political and pre-social?
16. “Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: What made Rousseau to say that?
17. Explain the basic postulates of Utilitarianism.
18. Why Bentham is considered as a moral philosopher?
19. Why Mill is known more for his views on Liberty?
20. Discuss Burkes’s view on American and French revolutions.
21. Why is Marxism termed as Scientific Socialism?
22. What was Lenin’s greatest contribution to Marxism?
23. What is the significance of Theory of Justice?
24. Assess the significance of Gramsci as a political philosopher.
Weightage: 7 x 2 = 14

Group C :
Answer any 2 questions each in about 450 words
25. Compare and contrast the Social Contract theories.
26. How would you analyse the reformative attempt of J.S.Mill on Utilitarianism?
27. Explain How Edmund Burke balanced the sharp contrast in his political philosophy?
28. Examine Dialectical Materialism.
Weightage: 2 x 4 = 08