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"The principle of the greatest good of the greatest number was made a hook to be put into nostrils of the Leviathan so that it could be tamed and harnessed to the chariot of utility." This observation refers to the political theory of:

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Hobbes

Hume

Sidgwick

Bentham

When was Michel Foucault born?

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1975

1935

1926

1929

Fukuyama published the book Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States in

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2007

2008

2009

2010

The concept of 'legal sovereignty' was for the first time given by:

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Hobbes

Locke

Bentham

None of these

The price of salvation, according to Kierkegaard's variety of Protestantism, is

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The performance of "good works"

Frequent public attestations of belief in God's existence

Unconditioned faith in God's promise of eternal life

Both A and B

NOne of thee

Which argument does Kierkegaard use for the existence of God?

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The Argument from Design

The Argument from first Cause

The Ontological Argument

A version of the Cosmological Argument

Kierkegaard gives no argument for the existence of God

Who among the following thinkers has claimed that the history of ideas has ended with the recognition of Liberal democracy as ' the final form of human government'?

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Ralph Miliband

Noam Chomsky

Amartya Sen

Francis Fukuyama

Fukuyama believes the US has a right to promote its own values in the world, but more along the lines of what he calls

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Hollanditis

Realistic Wilsonianism

Mutual assured destruction

Massive retaliation

The idea of social contract has been recently revived under a new form by:

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Nozick

Rawls

Oakshott

Hannah Arendt

In his realistic theory of International politics Morgenthau's autonomy of political sphere denotes

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Autonomy of the State in international sphere

Autonomy of the decision-makers vis-a vis-the legislature

Autonomy of the political action in complete disregard to other standards of thought

Autonomy of the policy-makers vis-a vis other agencies or organs of the government

When Aristotle declared that " man is by nature a political animal", he did not imply that

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Only within a political community man can live the good life'

Politics is an ethical activity concerned with creating a just society

There is a distinction between state and civil society

Politics is a master science which is essentially an attempt to create a good society

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