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Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction |
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2) |
How to Study the History of Political Thought & Ancient Political Thought |
Skinner, Q. (1972). Motives, intentions and the interpretation of texts. New literary history, 3(2), 393-408.
Babb, J. (2018). “2. The foundational thinkers (600-400 BCE). A World History of Political Thought. Edward Elgar Publishing.
“How Should We Study the History of Political Thought”, In Coleman, J. (2000). A history of political thought (Vol. 1). Oxford: Blackwell, 13-20.
Smith, Steven B. 2000. “Political Science and Political Philosophy: An Uneasy Relation.” PS: Political Science & Politics 33 (2): 189–91.
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3) |
Ancient Athenian Democracy & Socrates’ Investigation & Platonic Utopia
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“Crito”, In Cooper, J. M., & Hutchinson, D. S. (Eds.). (1997). Plato: complete works. Hackett Publishing.
“Book I” and “Book VII”, In Cooper, J. M., & Hutchinson, D. S. (Eds.). (1997). Plato: complete works. Hackett Publishing.
“Apology”, In Cooper, J. M., & Hutchinson, D. S. (Eds.). (1997). Plato: complete works. Hackett Publishing.
“Plato”, In Roberts, Peri and Sutch, Peter. (2012) An Introduction to Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press.
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4) |
Aristotle’s Politics |
“Book I” and “Book III”, In Reeve, C. D. C. (1998). Aristotle: Politics. Indianapolis: Hackett.
“Aristotle”, In Roberts, Peri and Sutch, Peter. (2012) An Introduction to Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press.
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5) |
Roman Political Thought |
Atkins, J. (2018) “Chapter I The Roman Constitution in Theory and Practice” in Roman Political Thought. Cambridge University Press.
Atkins, J. (2018) “Liberty and Related Concepts” in Roman Political Thought. Cambridge University Press.
Coleman, J. (2000) “Cicero’s Rome and Cicero’s Republic” in History of Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell.
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6) |
Religion and Politics: Early and Late Medieval Period
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“Book Eleventh”, in The City of God. (St. Augustine). https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45304/45304-h/45304-h.htm
“The Virtuous City” (aphs. 57-67), In The political writings:" Selected aphorisms" and other texts. Cornell University Press, 2015 (al-Farabi).
“Introduction” in Bowering, G. (Ed.). (2015). Islamic political thought: An introduction. Princeton University Press, pp. 2-23.
“St Augustine”, “Thomas Aquinas” In Boucher, D., & Kelly, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political thinkers: from Socrates to the present. Oxford University Press.
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7) |
Midterm |
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8) |
Transitions to Modernity: Ibn Khaldun & Niccolò Machiavelli
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Khaldun, I. (2015). The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History-Abridged Edition. Princeton University Press, Chapter III (1-15).
Machiavelli, N. (2009). Discourses on Livy. University of Chicago Press, pp. 7-14.
Machiavelli, N. (2005). The Prince, trans. P. Bondanella, pp. 7-30.
“Machiavelli”, In Boucher, D., & Kelly, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political thinkers: from Socrates to the present. Oxford University Press.
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9) |
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan |
“Of Commonwealth”, In Hobbes, T. (1996). Leviathan (ed. JCA Gaskin) Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 111-131.
“Hobbes”, In Boucher, D., & Kelly, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political thinkers: from Socrates to the present. Oxford University Press. |
10) |
Enlightenment & Liberty: John Locke |
“Second Treatise”, In Locke, J. (2003). Two Treatises on Government, edited by Ian Shapiro, pp. 100-121.
“Locke”, In Boucher, D., & Kelly, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political thinkers: from Socrates to the present. Oxford University Press. |
11) |
Jean Jacques Rousseau and His Republican Project
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“Social Contract”, In Rousseau, J. J., & May, G. (2002). The social contract: And, the first and second discourses. Yale University Press, pp. 155-169.
“Rousseau”, In Boucher, D., & Kelly, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political thinkers: from Socrates to the present. Oxford University Press.
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12) |
Social Contract: Tradition, Revival and Revisions
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Pateman, C. (1988) “Patriarchal Confusions” in The Sexual Contract. Stanford University Press.
Mills, C. (1999) “Introduction” in The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press.
“CHAPTER THREE – Historical: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau”, In Roberts, Peri and Sutch, Peter. (2012) An Introduction to Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press.
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13) |
ROLEPLAY DEBATE |
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14) |
GENERAL EVALUATION |
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14) |
REVISION & Q/A SESSION |
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