Choose and answer one of the questions listed below.
1) What approach should a polity take when balancing 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 maintaining a stable political order demand the censorship and
regulation of religious and political ideas within a community?
3) Several of our authors are skeptical of human ability to concretely determine
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 beings as
fundamentally equal to one another. On what authority can hierarchical government be
instituted among equals for the sake of a stable, legitimate government?