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The concept of ‘Negative Liberty’ (freedom from interference) and ‘Positive Liberty’ was systematically articulated by:
AJohn Rawls
BIsaiah Berlin
CRobert Nozick
DJ.S. Mill
John Rawls formulated his theory of justice and the ‘Veil of Ignorance’ in which seminal work?
AAnarchy, State, and Utopia
BThe Spheres of Justice
CA Theory of Justice (1971)
DPolitical Liberalism
Robert Nozick’s work ‘Anarchy, State, and Utopia’ (1974) is a defense of which political philosophy?
ADemocratic Socialism
BCommunitarianism
CTotalitarianism
DLibertarianism and the Minimal State
Which political philosopher wrote ‘The Human Condition’ (1958) and analyzed the nature of totalitarianism?
AHannah Arendt
BRosa Luxemburg
CSimone de Beauvoir
DJudith Butler
The theory of ‘Deliberative Democracy’ emphasizes that legitimacy in democratic decision-making is derived from:
ASimple majority voting without debate
BPublic deliberation and reasoned discussion among citizens
CExecutive decrees by elected officials
DSecret ballot elections alone
Jürgen Habermas is famous for introducing the concept of the ‘Public Sphere’ in his work:
AThe Theory of Communicative Action
BLegitimation Crisis
CThe Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
DBetween Facts and Norms
Who among the following thinkers is associated with the concept of ‘Bio-politics’ and ‘Governmentality’?
AJacques Derrida
BLouis Althusser
CJean Baudrillard
DMichel Foucault
Karl Popper criticized Plato, Hegel, and Marx as enemies of open society in his book titled:
AThe Open Society and Its Enemies
BThe Logic of Scientific Discovery
CThe Poverty of Historicism
DConjectures and Refutations
The political concept of ‘Sovereignty’ was divided into ‘Legal Sovereignty’ and ‘Political Sovereignty’ by which jurist?
AJohn Austin
BA.V. Dicey
CJean Bodin
DHugo Grotius
John Austin’s Command Theory of Law defines law as the command of a sovereign backed by:
AMoral approval
BCustomary traditions
CSanctions (Punishment)
DInternational consensus