Should there be moral limits to the use of force in countering perceived threats to national security? For example, is torture permissible in order to gain information? Is the killing of an adversary’s civilian citizens permissible? What about the use of nuclear weapons? How about political assassination

2 – What reasons does Socrates give for refusing to escape his punishment? Do you agree or disagree with Socrates’s reasons?

3 – What are some of the physical attributes of the earth that influence our political life including the way we govern ourselves and the types of issues we must politically confront.

4 – What value do the political theorists ideas discussed in Chapter 5 hold for thinking about contemporary politics? Is there any? Or is the role of political philosophy relatively useless to political scientists today?

5 – What is political culture, and why is it important to understand how politics works?