Government and politics
Choose and answer one of the questions listed below.
1) What approach should a polity take when balancin" rel="nofollow">ing between the demands of political
obedience and citizenship on the one hand, and the requirements of devout faith on the
other? (Can a good Christian also be an active, fully engaged citizen?)
2) To what extent does main" rel="nofollow">intain" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing a stable political order demand the censorship and
regulation of religious and political ideas within" rel="nofollow">in a community?
3) Several of our authors are skeptical of human ability to concretely determin" rel="nofollow">ine
objective facts about good and evil, right and wrong. Why, or why not, does such
skepticism pose a problem for politics? Does good governance require sound, sure
knowledge?
4) In the early modern period, many theorists come to view human bein" rel="nofollow">ings as
fundamentally equal to one another. On what authority can hierarchical government be
in" rel="nofollow">instituted among equals for the sake of a stable, legitimate government?