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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr Hayden Ramsay.
Prerequisite: One first-year single-semester Philosophy subject. Students who lack this prerequisite, but believe themselves adequately prepared to attempt any second/third year subjects, should consult the Head of Department.
Contact: Up to three hours a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- have gained a greater understanding of modern ideologies, and forms of social organisation which express such ideologies;
- be able to display a critical understanding of the particular texts studied;
- be capable of engaging with the fundamental questions in political philosophy raised in the study of these texts.
Content:
A philosophical study of major texts in political theory from late 18th century to early 20th century. Texts to be drawn from works of Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Smith, .
Assessment:
One 2-hour end-of-semester examination (50 per cent) and an assignment of no more than 3,000 words (50 per cent).
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