GOVT 1616

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GOVT 1616
Introduction to Political Philosophy

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

This course offers a survey of Western political Philosophy. We will be reading and discussing the spectrum of great canonical theorists that include Plato, Aristotle, Christ, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Burke, Marx, Fanon, Malcolm X and M. L. King. Our approach will be both historical and conceptual, as we explore the nature of justice, freedom and equality—their presence and absence--in the Western Tradition.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU, 2024SU, 2023SU, 2022SU

When Offered Winter, Summer.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Three Week - Second.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1248 GOVT 1616   LEC 001

  •  
    • MTWRF
    • Jun 23 - Jul 11, 2025

    • Moon, A

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.

  •  1249 GOVT 1616   DIS 201

  •  
    • MTWRF
    • Jun 23 - Jul 11, 2025

    • Moon, A

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.

  •  1250 GOVT 1616   DIS 202

  •  
    • MTWRF
    • Jun 23 - Jul 11, 2025

    • Moon, A

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Synchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/courses/roster.