1. Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ideas That Matter

2. Plato's Athens: Justice and the Art of Governing

3. Aristotle’s Natural Justice and Deductive Classification

4. Machiavelli’s Prince: Unitarianism, Realism, Strategy

5. Hobbes Leviathan: The Authority of the Sovereign

6. Locke’s Contractual Liberalism: Property and Liberty

7. Political Philosophy Midterm Exam

8. Rousseau’s Social Contract: The Role of the State toward the Population Description

9. Kant and The Enlightenment: Toward International Cooperation

10. Burke’s “Reform in Order to Conserve”: The Road to Straus’ Neoconservatism

11. Mill and Utilitarianism: Maximizing Freedom, Maximizing Happiness

12. Marx and Alienation: The Impacts of Political Commodification

13. Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: Between Choice and Determinism

14. Final Exam