History of Political Thought

Spring 2002Prof Moran

G-317Mondays, 7-10 pm

Course Description This course introduces you to western

political thought We’ll examine key concepts like:

Justice Rights Equality Democracy

I. Reading All of the readings

we’ll need for the course are located in the following book:

Jene Porter, ed. History of Political Thought

Grading & Exams Midterm Exams Final Exam Participation

Midterm Exams Take home format 2 or 3 questions, 5 to 7 pages Short “research” paper type approach.

Final Exam In-class affair Date and Time set by the University Same basic format as the midterms, except

you’ll do all the writing in class. Open book

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

Course Structure Ancient Political Thought Medieval Political Thought Modern Political Thought

Ancient Political Thought

Plato’s Republic Aristotle’s Politics

Medieval Political Thought Aquinas’s Summa

Theologica

Machiavelli’s The Prince

Modern Political Thought I Hobbes’s Leviathan

Rousseau Discourse On Inequality On Social Contract

Locke’s Second Treatise

Modern Political Thought II John Stuart Mill

On Liberty Utilitarianism

Marx & Engels Communist Manifesto 1844 Manuscripts German Ideology Das Kapital