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POLS 3530 - Classical and Early Modern Political Thought


3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
(Same as Phil 3530) A survey of the historical writings in political thought from Plato to Machiavelli Special emphasis on the contributions these thinkers made to Western conceptions of democracy, equality, human nature, citizenship, etc , as well as the continuing relevance of the texts for explaining contemporary political phenomena.