Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who among the following claimed that the science of politics was no older than himself?
APolybius
BHobbes ✓ Correct
CAristotle
DMarx
Correct answer: (B) Hobbes — The thinker who claimed that the science of politics was no older than himself is Thomas Hobbes.
Explanation
★The thinker who claimed that the science of politics was no older than himself is Thomas Hobbes.
★Hobbes regarded civil philosophy as a genuinely new science that began with his own work, especially De Cive.
★He believed earlier writers had offered rhetoric and opinion, not a demonstrative science of politics.
★By applying a geometric, deductive method to the state, he thought he had founded political science afresh.
★His boast reflects the self-conscious modernity of his break with the Aristotelian and scholastic past.
★This claim sits beside his use of natural science as the model for studying human beings and the state.
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