A. Hobbes
B. Locke
C. Rousseau
D. None of the above
Related Mcqs:
- All the Social Contractualists talk of State of Nature, which means: _____________?
A. The role played by the nature in the creation of state
B. The conditions existing prior to the creation of the state
C. A study of the various stages of the development of state
D. A study of the nature of state - Rousseau felt that social living corrupted us leading to such ills as private property and social classes. Which of the following is his famous phrase arising from this reasoning?
A. Workers of the world unite
B. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
C. Put the child in his place and keep him there
D. Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains - Who of the following has said, that ‘man was born free and today he is everywhere in chains?
A. Hobbes
B. Machiavelli
C. Hegel
D. Rousseau
E. T.H. Green - Rousseau was born in: __________?
A. England
B. Germany
C. France
D. Switzerland - Who said that “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”?
A. Aristotle
B. Marx
C. Rousseau
D. Locke - Which one of the following thinkers did not criticize the theory of social contract?
A. Karl Marx
B. Wright
C. Vaughan
D. T.H. Green - Which one of the following is not associated with social contract theory?
A. Hobbes
B. Herbert Spencer
C. Locke
D. Rousseau - Which one of the following statements is correct about social contract theory?
A. The state is a natural institution
B. The state is gradual evolution
C. The state was created by God
D. The state is the result of a contract
E. The state is the result of a conquest - Who wrote the following terms of the social contract? “I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man, or to this assembly of men, on this condition that thou give up thy right to him, and authorise all his actions in the like manner”.
A. Rousseau
B. Locke
C. Hobbes
D. Spinoza - Which one of the following defects of the Social Contract theory is correct?
A. It attached undue importance to religion
B. It attached too much of importance to force
C. It supported the ‘Divine Right of the Kings’
D. It is historically wrong
