Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET October 2022 Political Science
What is the correct sequencing of these political thinkers on the basis of their year of birth?
- 1. Rousseau
- 2. Machiavelli
- 3. Locke
- 4. Aristotle
- 5. Hobbes
A4, 2, 5, 3, 1 ✓ Correct
B1, 2, 3, 4, 5
C2, 3, 4, 1, 5
D5, 1, 3, 2, 4
Correct answer: (A) 4, 2, 5, 3, 1 — In order of birth the sequence is Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, so the answer is 4, 2, 5, 3, 1.
Explanation
★In order of birth the sequence is Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, so the answer is 4, 2, 5, 3, 1.
★Aristotle, born in 384 BC at Stagira, is by far the earliest of the five.
★Niccolo Machiavelli, born in 1469 at Florence, opens the modern era of political thought.
★Thomas Hobbes, born in 1588, and John Locke, born in 1632, are the two great English social-contract thinkers.
★Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in 1712 at Geneva, is the latest, the theorist of the general will.
★The social-contract trio the exam pairs together is Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, with Machiavelli as the founder of modern realism.
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