History of Political Thought

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History of Political Thought

• Spring 2002
• Prof Moran
• G-317
• Mondays, 7-10 pm

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Course Description

• This course introduces you to western political
  thought
• Well examine key concepts like
• Justice
• Rights
• Equality
• Democracy

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I. Reading

• All of the readings well need for the course are
  located in the following book
• Jene Porter, ed. History of Political Thought

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Grading Exams

• Midterm Exams
• Final Exam
• Participation

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Midterm Exams

• Take home format
• 2 or 3 questions, 5 to 7 pages
• Short research paper type approach.

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Final Exam

• In-class affair
• Date and Time set by the University
• Same basic format as the midterms, except youll
  do all the writing in class.
• Open book

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Caveats

• Keep the chatter to a minimum
• Coffee, tea, or other beverages are ok. Save the
  smelly, noisy, messy, foods for outside class
• No cells, beepers, pagers, watchmen, walkmen, mp3
  players, cd players, gameboys, etc., etc., etc.
• Late exam policy
• Respect each other

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Course Structure

• Ancient Political Thought
• Medieval Political Thought
• Modern Political Thought

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Ancient Political Thought

• Platos Republic

• Aristotles Politics

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Medieval Political Thought

• Aquinass Summa Theologica
• Machiavellis The Prince

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Modern Political Thought I

• Hobbess Leviathan
• Rousseau
• Discourse On Inequality
• On Social Contract

• Lockes Second Treatise

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Modern Political Thought II

• John Stuart Mill
• On Liberty
• Utilitarianism
• Marx Engels
• Communist Manifesto
• 1844 Manuscripts
• German Ideology
• Das Kapital