2023/2024
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
3 module
Online hours:
30
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Oleg Dmitriev
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
6
Course Syllabus
Learning Objectives
- To know the major concepts of political philosophy
- To be able to define main schools of political thought and their foundations
- To be able to reconstruct main arguments of political philosophy
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Reconstructs basic concepts of classical and contemporary political philosophy
Course Contents
- Week 1. The Sophistic Challenge: Autonomy and Legitimacy
- Week 2. Plato's Republic: The Technocratic Ideal
- Week 3. Aristotle's Politics: Man's Political Nature
- Week 4. The Hellenistic Schools: Epicureans and Skeptics
- Week 5. The Natural Law: Pro and Contra
- Week 6. Hobbes's Leviathan: Absolute Sovereignty
- Week 7. Locke on Limited Government
- Week 8. Rousseau: The General Will
- Week 9. Hume: Reason and Passions
- Week 10. Kant: Epistemology and Ethics
- Week 11. John Stuart Mill: Utility, Liberty, Progress
- Week 12. Hegel: History of Freedom
- Week 13. Marx: Free Development of Each
- Week 14. Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
- Week 15.Foucault: Discipline and Punish
- Week 16. Weber, Gramsci, Habermas
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- 9781119154174 - Goodin, Robert E.; Pettit, Philip - Contemporary Political Philosophy : An Anthology, 3rd Ed - 2019 - John Wiley & Sons - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2100217 - nlebk - 2100217
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Contemporary political philosophy : an introduction, Kymlicka, W., 2002