Status
C
Activity
REC
Section number integer
205
Title (text only)
Ancient Political Though
Term
2021C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
205
Section ID
PSCI180205
Course number integer
180
Registration notes
Registration also required for Lecture (see below)
Meeting times
R 03:30 PM-04:30 PM
Meeting location
DRLB 4E19
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Lila Rice Goldenberg
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