Western Political Philosophy | Solved PYQs CUET PG Political Science

1. ‘State of nature’ is a component of the political theory of (2021)

(A) G. W. F. Hegel
(B) Aristotle
(C) Plato
(D) Thomas Hobbes

2. What did Niccolo Machiavelli mean by ‘fortuna’? (2021)

(A) Morality
(B) Courage
(C) Uncontrollable condition
(D) Freedom

3. Nicomachean Ethics was authored by (2021)

(A) Plato
(B) Aristotle
(C) John Locke
(D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4. For Aristotle, eudaimonia is (2021)

(A) State
(B) People
(C) Tragedy
(D) Human good

5. The right to life, liberty and estate is associated with (2021)

(A) Plato
(B) Karl Marx
(C) John Locke
(D) Niccolo Machiavelli

6. Robert Morrison MacIver wrote the following book (2021)

(A) The Modern State
(B) Leviathan
(C) Modern Prince
(D) Homo Sacer

7. The concept of ‘form’ is primarily associated with (2021)

(A) Plato
(B) Adam Smith
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) John Stuart Mill

8. Which of the following thinkers presented the idea of historical materialism? (2021)

(A) Michael Walzer
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Will Kymlicka
(D) Harold Laski

9. Marx was influenced by (2021)

(A) German Idealism
(B) French Socialism
(C) English and Scottish Political Economy
(D) All of the above

10. Marx discusses ‘alienation’ in (2021)

(A) Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
(B) Theses on Feuerbach
(C) The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
(D) The German Ideology

11. ‘Self-regarding’ and ‘other-regarding’ is theorised by (2021)

(A) John Locke
(B) James Mill
(C) John Stuart Mill
(D) John Rawls

12. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below (2021)

List-I

(A) Capital
(B) Prison Notebook
(C) A Theory of Justice
(D) Anarchy, State and Utopia

List-II

(I) John Rawls
(II) Antonio Gramsci
(III) Robert Nozick
(IV) Karl Marx

(A) (A)-(III); (B)-(I); (C)-(II); (D)-(IV)
(B) (A)-(I); (B)-(III); (C)-(IV); (D)-(II)
(C) (A)-(II); (B)-(IV); (C)-(III); (D)-(I)
(D) (A)-(IV); (B)-(II); (C)-(I); (D)-(III)

13. For John Locke, knowledge is based on (2021)

(A) Experience
(B) Divinity
(C) Reason
(D) Non-material sources

14. The author of Discourses on Livy is (2021)

(A) Immanuel Kant
(B) Niccolo Machiavelli
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Thomas Hobbes

15. Who amongst the following thinkers is a defender of individual freedom? (2021)

(A) Thomas Hobbes
(B) Niccolo Machiavelli
(C) John Stuart Mill
(D) All of the above

16. Who is the author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding? (2021)

(A) Immanuel Kant
(B) John Locke
(C) Antonio Gramsci
(D) John Rawls

17. “I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” Who among the following is the author of the book, The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right? (2021)

(A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(B) Thomas Hobbes
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Antonio Gramsci

18. Which of the following was written by Plato? (2021)

(A) Politics
(B) Apology
(C) Nicomachean Ethics
(D) Poetics