Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy

Harvard FAS

This course serves as an introduction to ancient political thought. Rather than being a broad survey, this course will offer an alternative to the distracted media universe of our current age by building habits of sustained attention trained on a few key texts of ancient political thought: Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. Political philosophy began with the questions "How should I live?" "How should we live?" This course seeks to bring those questions to life in our…