UPSC MainsPolitical Science (Optional)24 questions
Ethics: UPSC Mains Political Science (Optional) questions
24 practice questions on Ethics, each with a model answer, an approach note, key facts and links to the previous year questions on the same theme.
- 1Aristotle on Man as a Political Animal
- 2Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Ideal State
- 3Aristotle's Position in Western Political Thought
- 4Edmund Burke on the Science of Politics
- 5Evolution of Liberty in Modern Liberalism
- 6Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism
- 7Hegel on Contradiction as the Moving Principle
- 8Justice as a Dynamic Idea
- 9Kautilya and Machiavelli in Political Thought
- 10Machiavelli and the Secularisation of Politics
- 11Machiavelli on Power, Morality, and Statecraft
- 12Marx on Individual Class Identity and Economic Man
- 13Modification of Radical Liberalism by Mill
- 14Plato on State as Individual Writ Large
- 15Plato's Concept of the Philosopher King
- 16Plato's Metaphysical Theory of Forms
- 17Plato's Noble Lie and Political Utility
- 18Plato's Theory of Forms and Reality
- 19Platonic Idealism and the Theory of Forms
- 20Rawls' Justice as Fairness and Liberal Democracy
- 21Rawlsian Inviolability of Individual Liberty and Justice
- 22Rawlsian Justice and Sen's Capability Approach
- 23Rawlsian Justice as Fairness and Communitarian Critiques
- 24Significance of Rawls' Veil of Ignorance