PAIS520 Classical Political Thinkers
Updated: 19 March 2018Credit Points | 6 |
Offering | Not offered in 2019 |
Intensive School(s) | None |
Supervised Exam | There is no supervised examination. |
Pre-requisites | candidature in a postgraduate award |
Co-requisites | None |
Restrictions | PAIS320 |
Notes | None |
Combined Units |
PAIS320
- Classical Political Thinkers |
Coordinator(s) | Anthony Lynch (alynch@une.edu.au) |
Unit Description |
Politics, power, order, authority, security, legitimation - these are the foundational terms of political theory. And the foundational thinkers for understanding these terms - more particularly, for understanding the various ways these terms have been interpreted and inter-related - are Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. This unit discusses the how each of these thinkers deployed these terms and how their views developed. Doing this enables us to better understand the nature of authoritarianism, elitism, democracy, liberalism, socialism and republicanism, and their critical interactions. No-one can claim, with any plausibility, to know what they are saying on any of these topics without understanding these seminal political thinkers. |
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Assessment |
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Learning Outcomes (LO) |
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
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