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Instructors: Dr. Dan Corjescu
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Pol. Philosophy
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
This course is a general survey course of political philosophy from the Ancients to the Moderns; from Plato to Nietzsche.
Educational objective:
The goal of the course is to familiarize ourselves with some of the main ideas and intellectual currents in political philosophy during the past two and a half millenia.
Further information about the exams:
Class participation, class presentations, and an end of term paper will make up the entire grading.
Mandatory literature:
!!!THE FOLLOWING ARE TO BE READ BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS!!!
Plato and Aristotle in Cahn, Steven M. Political philosophy: the essential texts. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
The entire volume of Abramson, Jeffrey B. 2009. Minerva's owl: the tradition of western political thought. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
And Part One and Part Two in Dahl, Robert A. 1989. Democracy and its critics. New Haven: Yale University Press.
THE FOLLOWING ARE THE MANDATORY BOOKS REQUIRED FOR THIS COURSE
Abramson, Jeffrey B. 2009. Minerva's owl: the tradition of western political thought. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Cahn, Steven M. Political philosophy: the essential texts. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Dahl, Robert A. 1989. Democracy and its critics. New Haven: Yale University Press
Fukuyama, Francis. 2006. The end of history and the last man. New York: Free Press
Widdows, Heather. 2014. Global ethics: an introduction. Routledge.
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