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Rawls develops his original position by modeling it, in certain respects at least, after the "initial situations" of various social contract thinkers who came before him, including

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Thomas Hobbes

john Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All of above

Lenin reached the conclusion that the disintegration of capitalism would begin in the:

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Industrial heartland

Tsarist Russia

Colonial periphery

USA

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

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Nozick

Rawls

Oakshott

Hannah Arendt

Who is the most prominent theoretician and practitioner of 'Deconstruction'?

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Husserl

Derrida

Barthes

None of these

Rawls derives two principles of justice from the original position
The first of these is

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Liberty Principle

Personal property right

Natural right of self-ownership

None of these

The doctrine of Proportionate equality was Pronounced by

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Aristotle

Rousseau

Marx

None of these

Where does Foucault believe the disciplines originated?

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In prison

In courtrooms

In monasteries

In supermarkets

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 thinker who has been characterized as a 'reluctant democrat' is:

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J. Bentham

E.Burke

T. H. Green

J. S Mill

He believed that every peson was born with a tabula rasa, or blank slate.

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Locke

Voltaire

Montesquieu

Frederick the Great

Which one of the following statements about Rousseau is correct?

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He perfected the theory of Contract

He repudiated the theory of Contract altogether

He transformed the theory of Contract into an idealist mode of political discourse

He added nothing to the theories of Hobbes and Locke beyond combining their views

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