Aristotle said that man is by nature a political animal. Explain what he meant.

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2.Aristotle said that man is by nature a political animal. Explain what he meant.

3.If politics is essentially social, why is not all social activity political?

4. Why has politics so often carried negative associations?

5.How could you defend politics as a worthwhile and ennobling activity?

6. Is politics inevitable? Could politics ever be brought to an end?

7.Why has the idea of a science of politics been so attractive?

8.Is it possible to study politics objectively and without bias?

9.Henry David Thoreau said «That government is best which governs not at all». Explain what he meant.

10.Does Aristotle’s system of political classification have any relevance to the modern world?

11.Is there any longer such a thing as the «third world»?

12.To what extent have postcommunist regimes discarded their communist past?

13.Why have liberal-democratic structures proved to be so effective and successful?

14.How democratic are western polyarchies?

15.Do Confucianism and Islam constitute viable alternatives to western liberalism as a basis for a modern regime?

16.Why has the concept of ideology so often carried negative associations?

17.Is it any longer possible to distinguish between liberalism and socialism?

18.Has Marxism a future?

19.What circumstances are most conducive to the rise of fascism?

20.Why has democracy come to be so universally well regarded?

21.Is direct democracy in any way applicable to modern circumstances?

22.What are the principal virtues of democracy?

23.What are the drawbacks or dangers of democracy?

24.Which model of democracy is most attractive, and why?

25.Do modern forms of representative democracy deserve to be described as democratic?

26.What are the major threats to democracy in modern society?

27.Why has feminism grown in significance? Does it have the potential to displace conventional political creeds?

28.Essence and subject of Politics.

29.Traditions in the development of Political science.

30.Main approaches for interpreting power in contemporary scientific literature.

31.The political system and political regimes.

32.Classical typologies of political systems and regimes.

33.What is national identity in your point of view?

34.Regimes of the modern world.

35.Essence, importance and viewpoints on the phenomenon of democracy.

36.Distinctive features of modern democracy. Parliamentarism.

37.Essence, attributes and reasons of origin of the state.

38.Global stages, in the development of the state.

39.Constitution and referendum, their role in the functioning of the modern state.

40.Forms of government and forms of territorial structure of the state.

41.Modern theories of the state.

42.Social and legal state, civil society: essence, features and significance.

43.Political culture and its role in modern society.

44.What will happen, if we legalize tribalism and clans in Kazakhstan?

45.Modern international organisations amd their role in political relations.

46.Describe tribal relationships in modern kazakh society.

47.What are the central and local authorities?

Aristotle said that man is by nature a political animal. Explain what he meant.

He actually meant that man best surives in a "polis" taken from Greek city-state form. Meaning man survives best in a society where there are rules and customs. In this context he is best suited and can fulfill his potential. A life of virtue. Aristotle believed man was a "political animal" because he is a social creature with the power of speech and moral reasoning: Now the reason why man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious animals is evident. Nature, as we often say, makes nothing in vain, and man is the only animal whom she has endowed with the gift of speech. And whereas mere sound is but an indication of pleasure or pain, and is therefore found in other animals (for their nature attains to the perception of pleasure and pain and the intimation of them to one another, and no further), the power of speech is intended to set forth the expedient and inexpedient, and likewise the just and the unjust. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.

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