PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH

Status
C
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH
Term
2012A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
403
Section ID
PSCI180403
Meeting times
M 0400PM-0500PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 169
Instructors
KIM, JUMAN
Description
Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality? Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous?
Course number only
180
Use local description
No