2024-2025 Undergraduate University Catalog 
    
    Nov 24, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate University Catalog
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PH 310 - Political Philosophy


Credit(s): 3
In this course, we will examine attempts by philosophers within the Western philosophical tradition to answer the following three questions. First, what justification (if any) can be given for the existence of the state? Second, what reason is there (if any) for preferring one kind of state to another? Third, what justification is there (if any) for placing limits on the power of the state to intervene in the lives of its citizens? Readings may include Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Berlin, Taylor, Nozick, Rawls, and others. This course fulfills the historical studies requirement in the College of Arts and Sciences.



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