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POLI 3515

Political Thought and Contemporary Issues

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2020

Topics

  • information or to provide students with pre-arranged sets of learned material
  • Rather, this course is meant to develop and enhance students’ ability to: (a) freely
  • partake in the art of thoughtful and reasoned discussion about the most important
  • human questions
  • (b) produce well organized and reasoned writings about the most
  • important human questions
  • authors themselves, and reflecting on how they might illuminate and guide our own
  • lives
  • To achieve these aims, this course focuses on important texts in political philosophy
  • understanding of the strengths, limits, and problems of our politics and of political
  • class’s discussion and interests,
  • are expected to be generally related to the following issues: how to best understand
  • human nature, freedom, identity, morality and virtue
  • and how to best reconcile these
  • important features of human life with our membership in various communities (such
  • as families, friendships, and political regimes)

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