Key Questions
- Why should we study politics?
- What is civil society?
- How would you define politics?
- What is power and how do we measure it?
- How are politics and power related?
- What is authority and how do we know if it is legitimate or not?
- What is the social contract?
- What is government?
- What is meant by sovereignty?
- Why is justice important?
- What is the problem of dirty hands?
- Is the study of politics a science or a humanity? Or something else?
- How do political scientists go about studying politics? What approaches do they take?
- What is the relationship between politics and morality?
- What is the relationship between politics and ideas?
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