Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET October 2020 Political Science
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
Assertion (A): GWF Hegel represents the climax of German idealism in political thought.
Reason (R): Hegel disliked abstract principles and cosmopolitan ideals and believed in the rationality of existing institutions.
ABoth A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct
CA is true, but R is false
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (B) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A — Both the assertion and the reason are true, but the reason does not explain the assertion, so the answer is the second option.
Explanation
★Both the assertion and the reason are true, but the reason does not explain the assertion, so the answer is the second option.
★Hegel does represent the climax of German idealism, completing the line of Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in political thought.
★It is also true that he distrusted abstract principles and cosmopolitan ideals, preferring concrete, historically rooted institutions.
★His dictum that the rational is the real expresses faith in the reason embodied in existing institutions.
★But his concrete institutionalism is one feature of his thought, not the ground of his being the climax of idealism.
★So the two statements are independently true and the reason does not properly explain the assertion.
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