PS 1602 - STATES OF NATURE: EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT IN CONTEXT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Description: This course builds upon the common threads of some of the major thinkers in the Western political tradition from the Enlightenment (Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau), but places them--and in particular their "State of Nature" arguments--in critical discourse with political theory from other modern, intersectional, and cross-cultural approaches and traditions. This class challenges the way that political theory has traditionally understood the "State of Nature", while at the same time offering other accounts of "natural state" that are important to consider when judging not only the outcomes but the very utility of this mode of political thought.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., West European Studies

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