2019-2020 College Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2019-2020 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PHIL 380 - The Western Political Tradition

3 Credits
This course provides students with a study of the leading ideas of the Western political tradition, focusing on such topics as justice, power, legitimacy, revolution, freedom, equality and forms of government - democracy especially. The course explores these issues and other concepts of political thought, drawing on major works in the Western tradition including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Paine, and Tocqueville. Lecture/discussion format in a reading and writing intensive course. (This course may also be taken as PLSC 380 .)



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