Course: Classics of Political Philosophy

Topic outline

ABOUT THE COURSE
CLASSICS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT – JPB578

Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague

Instructor: Dr Janusz Salamon

ETCS: 6 credits
Prerequisites: None

TIME: Wednesday, 8:00-9.20

PLACE: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94414726982

CONTACTS:

Email: janusz.salamon at univ-oxford.com

Office hours: Wednesday, 9:30-11:00: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/94414726982

For the entire syllabus, visit the course webpage in the SIS.
- Oznámení Forum
Class 1 PLATO's SOCRATES as an ideal citizen
- Reading for Class 01 - SOCRATES Trial and decision to die - Apology & Crito File
Class 2 PLATO's critique of democracy and defence of the enlightened rule of the meritocratic elite
- Reading for Class 02 - PLATO's Utopia in Cohen & Question of Justice in Plato's Republic Folder
Class 3 ARISTOTLE's politics based on "nature" and the emergence of "middle-class" politics
- Reading for Class 03 on ARISTOTLE and POLYBIUS & CICERO File
Class 04 - ROMAN Republicanism and Stoic Cosmopolitanism
Class 05 - MEDIEVAL Political Philosophy and Its Long-term Impact
- Reading for Class 05 - Augustine and Aquinas on the Church-State Relation File
Class 6 MACHIAVELLI the Republican and the problem of 'dirty hands" in politics
- Reading for Class 04 - MACHIAVELLI - in Gingell File
Class 07 - MID-TERM
Class 08 - HOBBES on the state as a human invention based on 'social contract'
- Reading for Class 06 - Thomas HOBBES File
Class 09 - LOCKE as precursor of liberal democracy and originator of the concept of minimal state
- Reading for Class 08 - LOCKE File
Class 10 - ROUSSEAU as precursor of European egalitarianism and social democracy
- Class 10 - ROUSSEAU File
Class 11 - KANT and the Politics for Autonomy of the Rational Self
- Reading for Class 11 - KANT File
Class 12 - HEGEL and the Nation State
- Reading for Class 12 - HEGEL File