Justice, Authority and Power

  ANSWER ONE QUESTION IN AN ESSAY OF 1,500 WORDS 1. Does Socrates convincingly refute the views about justice expressed in Book I of The Republic? 2. Critically discuss Plato’s idea that justice is a condition of the soul. 3. In what ways does ‘the doctrine of the mean’ help to explain Aristotle’s account of citizen virtue? 4. How convincing are Aristotle’s doubts about Plato’s ideal city? 5. Critically examine the idea that if human nature is as Hobbes believes it to be, people would never manage to leave the state of nature. 6. Do the limits to state power in Hobbes’ social contract mean that he is for, or against, absolute sovereignty? 7. ‘It would be contradictory to resist a state to which one has consented’. Critically evaluate this objection to Locke’s social contract theory. 8. Given the innocence of Rousseau’s natural man, is the civil freedom he achieves in the social contract a dangerous illusion? 9. Is there any non-sinister sense in which a person can be ‘forced to be free’?