[ Year long: 6 credits ]

Prerequisite: Pass in any European History course or GT11A/B

The aim of this course is to study the major political writers and the concepts and issues with which they did from antiquity to modern times. The course is equally concerned with the historical evolution of political forms and institutions (the polis, the empire, the church, the mosque, the temple, the feudal state, the nation state), and with the relationship between political philosophy and the real work of enduring political and philosophical themes, and also of those normative political values which underlies different types of governmental systems.