POLITICS 212(TH)
HISTORY OF

WESTERN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

 

Syllabus

 

Prof. Sammy Basu Office: Sml 322

5033706264

sbasu@willamette.edu

 

 

 

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.

 

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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)