Political Thought - Plato to Rousseau

(8 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The objective of this course is to introduce students to some of the canonical texts in political thought and to help them to develop an appreciation of their significance for their own time and for contemporary political theory. Particularly, it is an examination of the works of Plato, Cicero, Aquinas, Hobbes, and Rousseau, among others, with a special emphasis on the role that natural law plays within the framework of each.