2nd Edition Western Thought Study Material 5th sem and PG Entrance

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MODULE I

a) Plato – Justice , Education, Theory Of State, Communism, Classification of Government

b) Aristotle- Theory of State, Slavery, Citizenship, Distributive Justice, Education, Classification

of Government, Revolution, Democracy

MODULE II

Machiavelli - Church v/s State Controversy: Modern Secular Nation State: Political Realism.

MODULE III

a) Hobbes-Political Absolutism, Human Nature And Contract

b) Locke-Limited Government; Private Property and Civil Society

c) Rousseau- Critique of Civilization General Will and Social Contract

MODULE IV

a) Bentham-Quantitative Utility

b) J.S. Mill-Quantitative Utility Liberty

MODULE V

a) Edmund Burke- Conservative Reforms, Critique of French Revolution

b) Hegel- Idealism, Dialectics State and Freedom

MODULE VI

a) Marx - Marx’s Method; Materialistic Dialectics; Historical Materialism; Base – Superstructure

Relations; Theory of Classes ; Class Struggle; Theory of Alienation and Critique of

Capitalism

MODULE VII

a) Lenin- Theory of State and Revolution; Democratic Centralism and Dictatorship of the

Proletariat; Theory of Imperialism

b) Mao- On Contradiction; Views on the Role of Peasantry In Revolution; New Democracy and

Cultural Revolution;

MODULE VIII

Bakunin and Kropotkin- Theory of Anarchism.

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