Introduction to Political Theory

All important lessons of Introduction to Political Theory according to University Syllabus.

The lessons included in this app are:

#Political Science

1.Overview

2.Definition

3.Nature of Political Science

4.Scope of Political Science

5.Methods for studying politics

6.Importance to study Political Science

7.Rekations to other Social Science

#State

1.State

2.Definition of State

3.Elements of State

4.State and Government

5.Individual and State

6.State and Society

#Theories on Origin of State

1.Theories on Origin of State

2.Theory of Divine Origin

3.Force Theory

4.Social Contract Theory

5.Matriarchal Theory

6.Evolutionary/Historical Theory

#Fundamental Concepts

1.Sovereignty

2.Law

3.Liberty

4.Equality

5.Rights and Duties

6.Theory of Rights

7.Nation

8.Nationalism

9.Internationalism

#Concepts of Political

Sociology

1.Introduction to Political Sociology

2.Political culture

3.Elite theory

4.Max Weber and Bureaucracy

#Plato's Political Philosophy

Plato

1. Life – from Politics to Philosophy

2. The Threefold Task of Political Philosophy

3. The Quest for Justice in The Republic

4. The Best Political Order

5. The Government of Philosopher Rulers

6. Politics and the Soul

7. Plato’s Achievement

#Aristotle's Political Theory

1.Aristotle

2.Aristotle's View of Politics

3.General Theory of Constitutions and Citizenship

4.Study of Specific Constitutions

5.Aristotle and Modern Politics

6.Glossary of Aristotelian Terms

#St. Augustine & his

Political Theory

1.St. Augustine

2.Political “Theory”

3.Foundational Political and Social Concepts

4.War and Peace

#St. Thomas Aquinas &

his Political Theory

1.Saint Thomas Aquinas

2.Political Philosophy

3.Natural Law

4.The Political Nature of Man

5.Human Legislation

6.The Requirements of Justice

8.The Limitations of Politics

#Machiavelli & his

Political Theory

1.Niccolò Machiavelli

2.Absolutism

3.Machiavelli and Renaissance

4.Power Politics and Self-Sufficient State

5.Politics and Religion

6.Idea about State

7.Omnipotent Legislator

8.Assessment of Political Ideas of Machiavelli

#Hobbes's Political Theory

1.Thomas Hobbes

2.An Introduction to the Work of Hobbes

3.Hobbes’s Political Science

4.The State of Nature

5.The Social Contract

6.The Leviathan, or the Sovereign

7.Religion in the Commonwealth

8.Hobbes, Liberalism, and Modern Politics

#Locke's Political Theory

1.John Locke

2.Political Philosophy

3.Locke’s Political Writings

4.Two Treatises

4.Main ideas of Two Treatises

6.First Treatise

7.Second Treatise

#Rousseau's Political Theory

1.Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2.Political theory of Rousseau