Political Science 386 - Enlightenment Political and Social Thought

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Colgate University

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B. Shain Important Enlightenment-era political treatises are explored in this course. The bourgeois sensibilities of Montesquieu, Hume, and Voltaire are compared - culminating in the tenets of classical liberalism - to the more radical and perfectionist aspirations of Rousseau, Beccaria, Diderot, and Condorcet. For both schools of thought, the focus is the aspects and ideas that cast light on matters of continuing concern to modern democratic politics and capitalist economies.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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