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2024 Fall

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I - POS201/2 Fall 2024


Course
Jacob Maze
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Lesson One: Introduction to Political Philosophy

2. Lesson Two: Plato's Athens

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

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