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Who among the following theorized civil society as an ideological domain?

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Karl Marx

Hegel

Antonio Gramsci

Noam Chomsky

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

Equality, according to John Rawls, is an operational concept tied to his procedural theory of justice. Which of the following statements correctly describe(s) Rawls' position on inequality?

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Inequality is the cause of instability and revolution, and therefore unacceptable in the long run

Inequality is the sole cause of human misery, moral degradation and corruption, and should be abolished.

Inequality is justified if it leads to the elevation of the worst off in society

None of these

Michel Foucault argued that

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harsh punishments are necessary to make people obey the law

If people were more conscious of their rights they could eradicate power inequalities forever

power is a quality reserved for government institutions

power is inherent in all social relations, and is, therefore, impossible to eradicate even though its abuses should always be attacked

The natural rights of the people according to Locke are

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Right to Life, Liberty and property

Right to self-preservation adn right to property

Right to life and equality and right to property

None of these

Bourdieu's most significant work on cultural production is available in two books

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The Field of Cultural Production

The Rules of Art

Weight of the world

Both A & B

Montesquieu restricts froms of Government upto

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3

4

5

None of these

With which two images does Faucault begin this book?

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A prison and a guillotine

A prison and a delinquent

A genealogy and the carceral system

A public execution and a timetable

Hume sees no difficulty in the possibility of "an eternal succession of objects ," without beginning or end . This is meant to be an objection to

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The Argument from Design

The Cosmological Argument

Kierkegaard's leap of faith

Both B and C

For Kierkegaard and his Pietist associates, to believe in God is to:

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Believe in the power of prayer

Attend the proper rituals and recite the appropriate prayers

Expect certain punishment for worldly sin

Trust God to provide an eternal life after death

None of these

According to Fukuyama democracy's only real competitor in the realm of ideas today is

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Radical Islamism

Stalinism

Fascism

None of these

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