History of Political Thought

(3-5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module will introduce students to the history of political thought from the time of classical Greece to the present era. It will accomplish this task by covering the following five major topics from that history: 1) The birth of politics in classical Greece; 2) The rise of Christianity and its implications for politics; 3) The ideas of liberalism and the social contract, introduced in the early modern era; 4) The relationship between freedom and reason, a relationship explored in eighteenth and nineteenth-century political thought; and 5) The question of whether there are "laws of history," a central concern of G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx BT - Bologna, Italy: This module will introduce students to the history of political thought from the time of classical Greece to the present era. It will accomplish this task by covering the following five major topics from that history: 1) The birth of politics in classical Greece; 2) The rise of Christianity and its implications for politics; 3) The ideas of liberalism and the social contract, introduced in the early modern era; 4) The relationship between freedom and reason, a relationship explored in eighteenth and nineteenth-century political thought; and 5) The question of whether there are "laws of history," a central concern of G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Ma