Program:
Format:
Online
Term:
Summer 2023
Session:
Summer Session II: June 29 – August 4, 2023
Subject Area:
PHILOSOPHY (PHIL)
Course Number
PHIL 1433 920
Schedule:
Tuesday 5:15 - 9:05 p.m.
Thursday 5:15 - 9:05 p.m.
Instructor:
MUSSO, PAUL A
Primary Program:
LPS Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate
Course Description:
This is a critical survey of the history of western modern political philosophy, beginning from the Early Modern period and concluding with the 19th or 20th Century. Our study typically begins with Hobbes and ends with Mill or Rawls. The organizing theme of our investigation will be the idea of the Social Contract. We will examine different contract theories as well as criticisms and proposed alternatives to the contract idea, such as utilitarianism. Besides the above, examples of authors we will read are Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Mill, and Marx.
