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Regular version of the site
2023/2024

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: Institute of Media
When: 3 module
Online hours: 30
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors: Oleg Dmitriev
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 6

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This online course introduces the key ideas of political philosophy.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • To know the major concepts of political philosophy
  • To be able to define main schools of political thought and their foundations
  • To be able to reconstruct main arguments of political philosophy
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Reconstructs basic concepts of classical and contemporary political philosophy
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Week 1. The Sophistic Challenge: Autonomy and Legitimacy
  • Week 2. Plato's Republic: The Technocratic Ideal
  • Week 3. Aristotle's Politics: Man's Political Nature
  • Week 4. The Hellenistic Schools: Epicureans and Skeptics
  • Week 5. The Natural Law: Pro and Contra
  • Week 6. Hobbes's Leviathan: Absolute Sovereignty
  • Week 7. Locke on Limited Government
  • Week 8. Rousseau: The General Will
  • Week 9. Hume: Reason and Passions
  • Week 10. Kant: Epistemology and Ethics
  • Week 11. John Stuart Mill: Utility, Liberty, Progress
  • Week 12. Hegel: History of Freedom
  • Week 13. Marx: Free Development of Each
  • Week 14. Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
  • Week 15.Foucault: Discipline and Punish
  • Week 16. Weber, Gramsci, Habermas
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Final test
  • non-blocking Final essay
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 3rd module
    0.5 * Final essay + 0.5 * Final test
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • 9781119154174 - Goodin, Robert E.; Pettit, Philip - Contemporary Political Philosophy : An Anthology, 3rd Ed - 2019 - John Wiley & Sons - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2100217 - nlebk - 2100217

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Contemporary political philosophy : an introduction, Kymlicka, W., 2002

Authors

  • Uvarov Fedor Maksimovich