1- Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle’s view of politics as the exercise of reason and moral virtue. Please answer this question in essay form, and provide a full listing of references at the end.
2- Identify and discuss three main factors in Machiavelli’s approach to political thought and practice that are considered to be a break from the previous classical thinkers, establishing an approach to modern political thought.
3- Compare and contrast Hobbes’s and Locke’s rationale for Man’s willingness to leave the state of nature and enter into the kind of social contract each presents. Please be specific. Keywords: human nature, state of nature, reason, natural law, natural rights, freedom, inconveniences, property, civil society, consent, security, and sovereignty.