{"id":27211,"date":"2023-08-08T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/choose-one-of-the-sets-of-texts-below-and-critically-interpret-assess-and-compare-their-perspectives-on-the-listed-topic\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T13:00:50","slug":"choose-one-of-the-sets-of-texts-below-and-critically-interpret-assess-and-compare-their-perspectives-on-the-listed-topic","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/choose-one-of-the-sets-of-texts-below-and-critically-interpret-assess-and-compare-their-perspectives-on-the-listed-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose one of the sets of texts below and critically interpret, assess and compare their perspectives on the listed topic."},"content":{"rendered":"

Choose <\/span>one of the sets of texts<\/span> below and <\/span><\/span>critically interpret, assess and compare their perspectives on the listed topic<\/span>. As this is not a research paper, <\/span>no outside research is necessary<\/span>. However, you may want to include discussion of other perspectives from the required readings to support your claims. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please note that the <\/span><\/span>key point to keep in mind when preparing your essay is that<\/span> <\/span>you need to have an argument in your paper. That argument need not (though it can) focus on criticising your selected texts but it must put forward an interpretation of their arguments and relate them to each other. <\/span><\/span>The relevant readings for each question is attached below. (Choose one of the sets below to answer)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Thomas Hobbes and Karl Marx (What is human nature?) <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Thomas Hobbes \u201cThe Natural Condition of Mankind\u201d in Paul <\/span><\/span>Schumaker<\/span>, ed., <\/span>The Political Theory Reader<\/span> (<\/span>Chinchester<\/span>, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Karl Marx \u201cEstranged Labour\u201d in Paul <\/span><\/span>Schumaker<\/span>, ed., <\/span>The Political Theory Reader<\/span> (<\/span>Chinchester<\/span>, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    2. <\/span><\/span>John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke (<\/span>What has value? Society or the Individual?) <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Edmund Burke \u201cThe Great <\/span><\/span>Primeaval<\/span> <\/span>contract of Eternal Society\u201d in Paul <\/span><\/span>Schumaker<\/span>, ed., <\/span>The Political Theory Reader<\/span> (<\/span>Chinchester<\/span>, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. John Stuart Mill \u201cOn Liberty\u201d in Paul <\/span><\/span>Schumaker<\/span>, ed., <\/span>The Political Theory Reader<\/span> (<\/span>Chinchester<\/span>, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      3. <\/span><\/span>Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Constant (What is liberty?) <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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      1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau \u201cThe Social Contract\u201d in Ricardo <\/span><\/span>Blaug<\/span> <\/span>and John <\/span><\/span>Schwarzmantel<\/span>, eds., <\/span>Democracy: A Reader<\/span> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988).<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Benjamin Constant \u201cThe Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns\u201d in Ricardo <\/span><\/span>Blaug<\/span> <\/span>and John <\/span><\/span>Schwarzmantel<\/span>, eds., <\/span>Democracy: A Reader<\/span> (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1988). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        Choose one of the sets of texts below and critically interpret, assess and compare their perspectives on the listed topic. As this is not a research paper, no outside research is necessary. However, you may want to include discussion of other perspectives from the required readings to support your claims.  Please note that the key point to keep in mind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[762],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=27211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}