PHIL 107

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Intro to Political Philosophy

Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to core ideas in political and legal philosophy, for example, rights, equality, political obligations, legitimacy of states, nationalism, and oppression.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci

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PHIL 107 class schedule data for fall 2026
	Status		CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
			30609	Lecture-Discussion	D	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	161 Noyes Laboratory	Varden, H	Availability: Closed Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/26-12/09/26 Degree Notes: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci course. Section Info: Introduction to Political Philosophy, 3 hours. This course engages selections from some core texts and questions in political philosophy found in the philosophical tradition going back to Ancient Greece. We start with Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics. We then turn to John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, J.S. Mill’s On Liberty, Anna J. Cooper’s A Voice from the South, and W.E.B Du Bois The Soul of Black Folk. We finish the course by delving into Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism as well as John Rawls’s Justice as Fairness: A Restatement.