Write an essay on one of the following topics. Choose whichever question you can answer best.
1. Is Socrates that emerges as a supporter of strict obedience to the laws in the Crito at odds with Socrates who is apparently determined to defy any potential court order forbidding further public philosophising in the Apology? Whatever stance you take, be sure to justify your answer.

2. In Politics Book I, Aristotle makes a defence of slavery as a natural institution. According to Aristotle, for whom and under what circumstances is slavery appropriate? Critically discuss the success of Aristotle’s natural slavery argument.

3. In Hobbes’s Doctrine of the State of Nature, Merriam writes: ‘Although “naturally” man is a stranger to political life and looks askance at government, as one who would not be entangled on its net, yet he possesses irresistible impulses to enter the civil condition, and inevitably passes over into it. Naturally he is out of society, but inevitably he comes in.’ (Merriam 1906, 156)

Present and critically analyse the account of this “coming in” to society that Thomas Hobbes offers in Leviathan.

4. In the Second Treatise on Government, John Locke offers an account of how the just initial acquisition of private property is possible. He writes: ‘But I shall endeavour to shew, how men might come to have a property in several parts of that which God gave to mankind in common, and that without any express compact of all the commoners.’ (Chapter V, Section 25)

Present and critically assess Locke’s argument for private property.

5. According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, his version of the ‘social contract’ can be reduced to the following formation: ‘Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will, and, in our corporate capacity, we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.’ (Of the Social Contract, 1.6)

Present and critically discuss Rousseau’s conception of the general will.

6. In On Liberty, J. S. Mill offers ‘one simple principle’ designed to regulate the restrictions that governments and societies can place on the liberty of their citizens. He writes that ‘the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.’ (On Liberty, Chapter 1).

Present and critically examine Mill’s Harm Principle.

7. In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844), Karl Marx examines four aspects of the alienation of labour in capitalist society. Present the four aspects of alienated labour and critically assess Marx’s solution to the problem

Compare and contrast the positions of reformists and radicalises on what to do about globalization. Give specific examples of intellectuals and activists that subscribe to these positions.

The research paper provides evidence of critical thinking and analysis as well as synthesis of researched information throughout, and presents a logical and persuasive argument.
-Research sources are relevant, current, and credible. They are clearly documented in the paper.
-The introduction offers a sense of direction for the paper and presents a clear thesis statement to the reader.
-The body develops the necessary aspects of the main idea and provides examples, support, or illustration for each aspect of the main idea.
-The conclusion summarizes the main points and ties them to the thesis; it also presents an impact statement and/or suggests direction for future research.

After reading the argument posed in “Effects of Video Game Addiction,” consider other forms of entertainment that could have negative effects. In a paragraph, highlight the entertainment and at least one negative effect.

Apart from developing an addiction to video games as entertainment and their related side effects, addiction to watching movies as a form of entertainment also causes adverse effects.

How do you find The GRP(Gross Rating Points) on a Billboard with 30,000 Average Daily Traffic on Main Street?