Arrange the following modern Western schools of political thought in chronological order of their…
In the history of modern Western political thought, the Social Contract (Contractual) school (Hobbes in 1651, Locke in 1689, Rousseau in 1762) emerged first (C), followed by…
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Arrange the following modern Western schools of political thought in chronological order of their emergence (from the seventeenth to the twentieth century):
A. Utilitarian school of thought
B. Psychological school of thought
C. Social Contract (Contractual) school of thought
D. Modern (German/British) Idealist school of thought
E. Marxian school of thought
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Correct answer B
In the history of modern Western political thought, the Social Contract (Contractual) school (Hobbes in 1651, Locke in 1689, Rousseau in 1762) emerged first (C), followed by the Utilitarian school pioneered by Jeremy Bentham in 1776–1789 (A), the modern Idealist school of Kant, Hegel (1820), and T.H. Green (D), the Marxian school inaugurated by Marx and Engels in the 1840s (E), and the twentieth-century Psychological school of Graham Wallas (1908) and Harold Lasswell (B), giving C, A, D, E, B.
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