PS 441G - EARLY POLITICAL THEORY

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

A survey of political theorists in the Western political tradition from classical Greece to the Renaissance. The formative influences upon our concep- tions of politics, citizenship, justice, and natural rights will be highlighted and key issues in contro- versies over rhetoric and philosophy, time and polit- ical order, education and the body politic, and polit- ical action and human artifice will be illuminated.