Course detail: PHIL479
MODERN POLITICAL PHIL
A survey study of some of the main works by several major modern philosophers, including Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan; John Locke's Second Treatise on Government and Letter Concerning Toleration; Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract and Discourse on Inequality; John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, On Liberty, On Representative Government, and the Subjection of Women; and excerpts from Capital and other works by Karl Marx. Open to graduate students and upper level undergraduates. PRIOR COURSEWORK IN POLITICAL, MORAL, OR LEGAL PHILOSOPHY STRONGLY ADVISED.