POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Course
- INRE546 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Department
- International Relations - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 8
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This Course is designed to introduce students of IR the political thought by following the footsteps of the outstanding thinkers from Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas to Marx, Gramsci, Althusser, and Badiou through an analysis of the political thought of selected scholars along with their contributions to political philosophy. In examining the ideas of those theorists the method to be adopted is both textual and contextual, attempting to give due regard to the thoughts expressed by the authors and the social environments in which they have been expressed. These philosophers will therefore be evaluated and analyzed in their own historical context.
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Course outcomes
- 01 Analyze different aspects of political theory
- 02 Assess the difference between right and left ideologies
- 03 Generalize patterns of political thought from Plato to Badiou
- 04 Matching philosophers of similar orientations
- 05 Explain theoretical findings of philosophers
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | An Introduction to the course; |
| Week 2 | Ancient Greek Political Philosopy and Plato |
| Week 3 | Beginning of Student Presentations- Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas |
| Week 4 | Machiavelli, Hobbes |
| Week 5 | Locke, Rousseau |
| Week 6 | Hume, James Madison |
| Week 7 | Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham |
| Week 8 | Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant |
| Week 9 | Marx and Engels, Robert Nozick |
| Week 10 | Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault |
| Week 11 | Habermas, Nussbaum, Ideologies ( Liberalism, Conservatism and Socialism) |
| Week 12 | - |
| Week 13 | - |
| Week 14 | - |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Geraint Williams, Political Theory in Retrospect, Edward Elgar Publishing,, 1991
- 02 Steven M. Cahn, Political Philosophy: the Essential Texts. Oxford University Press, 2005
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