Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Rights

Question:

Match List -1 with List - 2

List- 1

List- 2

(A) Immanuel Kant

(I) Right to life, liberty and property

(B) Bob Geldof

(II) Pop Star

(C) Natural Rights

(III) Right to vote & elect representatives

(D) Political Right

(IV) German Philosopher

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Options:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)

Correct Answer:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)

The correct Match is:

List- 1

List- 2

(A) Immanuel Kant

(IV) German Philosopher

(B) Bob Geldof

(II) Pop Star

(C) Natural Rights

 (I) Right to life, liberty and property

(D) Political Right

(III) Right to vote & elect representatives

Explanation:

Human beings’, unlike all other objects, possess dignity. They are, for this reason valuable in themselves. For the eighteenth century German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, this simple idea had a deep meaning. It meant that every person has dignity and ought to be so treated by virtue of being a human being. A person may be uneducated, poor or powerless. He may even be dishonest or immoral. Yet, he remains a human being and deserves to be given some minimum dignity. For Kant, to treat people with dignity was to treat them morally. This idea became a rallying point for those struggling against social hierarchies and for human rights.

Pop star Bob Geldof appealed to western governments to end poverty in Africa.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, political theorists argued that rights are given to us by nature or God. The rights of men were derived from natural law. This meant that rights were not conferred by a ruler or a society, rather we are born with them. As such these rights are inalienable and no one can take these away from us. They identified three natural rights of man: the right to life, liberty and property.

Most democracies today begin by drawing up a charter of political rights. Political rights give to the citizens the right to equality before law and the right to participate in the political process. They include such rights as the right to vote and elect representatives, the right to contest elections, the right to form political parties or join them. Political rights are supplemented by civil liberties. The latter refers to the right to a free and fair trial, the right to express one’s views freely, the right to protest and express dissent.