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POLITICS 212 (TH)
HISTORY OF

WESTERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

 

 

Prof. Sammy Basu

 

 

SYLLABUS

 

 

 

 

COURSE SUMMARY

 

This course surveys selected texts in the pre-modern history of Western political philosophy.  Attention is paid to the range of responses to some of the fundamental moral and practical themes of political philosophy, such as authority, justice, obligation, liberty, equality, property, revolution, order, progress, and rights.  Both the themes and the responses are evaluated philosophically and viewed historically.

 

plato

aristotle

machiavelli

hobbesclose

locke1

Rousseau

Mill_JS

PLATO

(428-348BC)

ARISTOTLE (384-322BC)

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527)

THOMAS HOBBES

(1588-1679)

JOHN

LOCKE

(1632-1704)

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

(1712-1778)

JOHN STUART MILL

(1806-1873)