2022-2023 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
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PHIL 207 - Social and Political Philosophy


Credits: 3
Description
Major political philosophers, e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx, on topics such as justice, freedom, equality, tyranny, war, racism, sexism, power, consent, and economics.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. To familiarize students with some of the most influential thinkers and arguments that have been advanced about political and social matters in the history of the Western intellectual tradition.
  2. To familiarize students with some of the most influential thinkers and arguments that have been advanced by Contemporary Western political and social philosophers.
  3. To improve student knowledge of some of the core concepts and vocabulary of political and social philosophy.
  4. To improve the ability of the students to think critically. This entails improving their ability to identify inconsistencies in sets of claims, to identify the presumptions of claims, and to identify the implications of claims.
  5. To improve the ability of the students to think objectively, this is, dispassionately, about their own political convictions.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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