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PRESENTED BY :
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TITLE
WRITTEN BY:Subrata MukherjeeSushila Ramaswamy
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About The Author…….
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SUBRATA MUKHERJEE
1. Mukherjee is Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.
2. Ph.D. from Indiana University.3. Member of :-
• IPSA• ASRC• Indian Political Association
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SUSHILA RAMASWAMY
Ramaswamy is with the Department of Political Science, Jesus and Marry College, University of Delhi.
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About The Book…….
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The Book tells about issues of political discourse like…….
Power Art and science of leadership Factors of stability Change and conversion Relationship between ethics, politics and economics Role of women in society
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THINKERS…….
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1. Plato2. Aristotle3. Niccolo Machiavelli4. Thomas Hobbes5. John Locke6. Jean Jacques Rousseau7. Edmund Burke8. Jeremy Bentham9. George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel10.John Stuart Mill11.Karl Marx
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WHAT IS POLITICAL THEORY
A personal endeavor to understand and experience the present political reality and also to evolve a mechanism in order to transcend the present imperfect society to perfection and a more just order.
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It Includes studies of……
• Evolution• Nature• Composition• Need• Understanding of human perception
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About the Thinkers and their Thinking……..
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THINKERS ISSUES
THOMAS HOBBES JOHN LOCKE JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
1.) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Premature Birth at the time of CIVIL WAR on the street
“I AND FEAR ARE TWINS”
Birth at the time of Glorious/bloodless revolution (Constitutional monarchy in place of absolute monarchy)
Unsettled childhood, poor family, no education.
2.) HUMAN NATURE
Selfish, brutal, cruel Good, peaceful, cooperative
Innocent (not good and not bad)
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3.) STATE OF NATURE
Anarchy Peaceful Pre-property stage – HunterPost-property stage – Anarchy
4.) NATURE OF CONTRACT
Hypothetical Historical Hypothetical
5.) OBJECTIVE OF CONTRACT
Preservation of life
Nature right –• life• liberty• property
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6.) STAGE OF CONTRACT
One Two One
7.) NATURE OF GOVERNMENT
Absolute leviathan Limited Absolute• force freedom• headless leviathan
8.) ISSUE OF SECULARISM
On the basis of :• religion – secular•Number – not tolerant
Secular and tolerant Secular but not tolerant
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9.) ISSUE OF DEMOCRACY
1st individual but not democratic
Over democratic
Democratic to some aspect
10.) RIGHT TO REVOLT
If government does not protect your life then do revolt
Appeal to heaven (right to revolt)
If do not follow general rule(YES)
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CONCLUSION
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Circumstances make perception of individual
Individual wants to change the things around him/her according to his/her perception
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THANK YOU
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