MPSE 003 : WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx) in English Solved Assignment 2025-26
Assignment Title : MPSE 003 : WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx) in English Solved Assignment 2025-26
Course Code : MPSE 003
Course Title : WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx)
Assignment Code : MPSE/TMA/2025-26
Maximum Marks : 100
Title : MPSE 003 Solved Assignment in English 2025-26
Course : MA Political Science
University Name : IGNOU
Service Type : Solved Assignment (Soft Copy)
Language : English Medium
Semester : 2nd Year
Session : Valid for Admission July 2025 and January 2026
Short Name : MPSE 003
Assignment Code : MPS/TMA/2025-26
Product : Assignment of MPSE 003 (IGNOU)
SECTION-I
1. Discuss the relationship between political thought and political science.
2. Examine Plato’s Theory of Ideas.
3. Elaborate upon Aristotle’s methodology.
4. What is St. Thomas Aquinas’s Grand Synthesis? Explain.
5. Write a note on Machiavelli’s “The Prince’.
SECTION-II
Write a short note in each of the following in about 250 words.
6. (a) Hobbes on the state of nature
Locke on Social Contract and Civil society (b)
Rousseau’s Theory of General will
7. (a) Critique of Edmund Burke (b)
8. (a) Kant’s formulations of the categorical imperative
(b) ‘The Panopticon
9. (a) Tocqueville’s views on Democracy and Revolution
(b) J. S. Mill on women’s rights
10. (a) Hegel’s philosophy of History
(b) Historical Materialism










