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MPSE 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

Course : MA HISTORY
Session 2024
Submission date : 30th October 2024

SECTION –I
1. Examine the nature and context of western political thought.
2. Discuss the philosophical foundations of Plato’s political theory.
3. Write a note on Aristotle’s theory of revolution.
4. What is the grand synthesis St. Thomas Aquinas talked about? Elaborate.
5. Elaborate upon Machiavelli’s concept of Universal Egoism.

MPSE 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

SECTION –II
Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words.
6. a) Thomas Hobbes on the laws of nature and the Covenant
b) John Locke on social contract and civil society
7. a) Rousseau’s theory of General Will
b) Edmund Burke’s critique of the French Revolution

MPSE 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

8. a) Immanuel Kant’s formulation of the categorical imperative
b) Bentham’s political philosophy
9. a) Tocqueville on democracy, revolution and the modern state
b) J. S. Mill on equal rights for women
10. a) Hegel on Idealism
b) Marx’s theory of Surplus Value