Jammu and Kashmir SET Unit 2: Political Thought - Political Science Coaching Centre

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Jammu and Kashmir Unit 2: Political Thought

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Category: Thomas Hobbes

1. Which thinker among the following impressed Hobbes in order to understand human nature? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(A) Newton

(B) Galileo

(C) Descartes

(D) Kepler

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Category: John Stuart Mill

2. Which of the following statements given below are in line with the political thought of J. S. Mill? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(i) Mill's work straddled the divide between classical and modern liberalism.

(ii) He was great supporter of female suffrage.

(iii) He had sympathy for workers cooperatives.

(iv) He was staunch supporter of state intervention.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

(A) (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct

(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv) are correct

(C) (i), (ii) and (iv) are correct

(D) (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct

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Category: Robert Nozick

3. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

A

B

C

D

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Category: Karl Popper

4. Which of the following pairs is incorrectly matched? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(A) Karl Popper- The Poverty of Historicism

(B) Herbert Marcuse- One Dimensional Man

(C) Ralph Miliband- The Real World of Democracy

(D) Theda Skocpol- Bringing the State Back In

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Category: John Stuart Mill

5. Who among the following proposed that in the event of 'harm being done to others' the individual may be constrained? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(A) Isaiah Berlin

(B) Robert Nozic

(C) John Rawls

(D) J.S. Mill

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Category: Karl Marx

6. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (a) and the other labelled as Reason (r). Read the statements and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

Assertion (a): Karl Marx termed early socialists as Utopian socialists.

Reason (r): Utopian socialists attacked the capitalist system itself.

(A) Both (a) and (r) are true and (r) is the right explanation of (a).

(B) Both (a) and (r) are true but (r) is not the correct explanation of (a).

(C) (a) is true but (r) is false.

(D) (a) is false but (r) is true.

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Category: Mao Ze Dong

7. Which one among the following is not a book written by Mao Zedong? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

(A) On Contradiction

(B) On Practice

(C) Democracy Realized

(D) New Democracy

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Category: Aristotle

8. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (a) and the other labelled as Reason (r). Read the statements and choose the correct answer from the codes given below: (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET October 2023)

Assertion (a): Aristotle defends natural Inequality and then proposes a corresponding political equality between some humans.

Reason (r): Hobbes defends a view of the natural equality between all humans in the state of nature.

(A) Both (a) and (r) are true and (r) is correct explanation of (a)

(B) Both (a) and (r) are true but (r) is not correct explanation of (a)

(C) (a) is true but (r) is false

(D) (a) is false but (r) is true

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Category: Vladimir Lenin

9. Arrange chronologically, the texts of Valdimir Illyich Lenin in ascending order. (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

1. The State and Revolution.

2. What Is to Be Done?

3. Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

Choose the correct combination from the options given below:

(A) 2, 1, 3

(B) 1, 2, 3

(C) 2, 3, 1

(D) 3, 2, 1

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Category: John Rawls

10. Who among the following dismissed John Rawls's concept of social justice as a 'mirage'? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

(A) Isaiah Berlin

(B) C.B. Machpherson

(C) Robert Nozick

(D) Friedrich Hayek

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Category: Karl Marx

11. Consider the following statements regarding Marxism. (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

1. Marxism as a theoretical system developed out of and drew inspiration from the writings of Karl Marx.

2. A variety of Marxist traditions can be identified including 'Classical Marxism', 'Orthodox Marxism' or 'Dialectical Materialism' and 'Western', 'Modern' or 'Neo Marxism'.

3. The cornerstone Marxist Philosophy is the materialist conception of history.

4. The basis of Marxist tradition is Marx's teleological theory of history.

Choose the correct option from the combination given below

(A) 1, 3, and 4

(B) 1, 2, and 3

(C) 1 and 4

(D) 1, 2, 3, and 4

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Category: T. H. Green

12. Who among the following said “Will, not force, is the basis of State”? (JAMMU & KASHMIR SET JUNE 2022)

(A) J.S. Mill

(B) T.H. Green

(C) John Locke

(D) Leonard Hobhouse

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