SOSC 15100-15200-15300 - Classics of Social and Political Thought

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University of Chicago

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PQ: These courses must be taken in sequence. Students registered in this sequence must attend the first and second class sessions or their registration will be dropped. What is justice What makes a good society This sequence examines such problems as the conflicts between individual interest and common good; between morality, religion, and politics; and between liberty and equality. We read classic writings from Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas to such great founders and critics of modernity as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Constant, Tocqueville, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, and Weber. Writing before our departmentalization of disciplines, they were at the same time sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, economists, and moralists; they offer contrasting alternative conceptions of society and politics that underlie continuing controversies in the social sciences and in contemporary political life. P. Cheney, J. Cooper, A. Dilts, A. Glaeser, R. Gooding-Williams, M. Marin, P. Markell, J. McCormick, S. Muthu, R. Pippin, J. Pitts, S. Satkunanandan, W. Schweiker, N. Tarcov, L. Wedeen, L. Zerilli. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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