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Course no. 4750.

Thirty-six lectures, 30 min. each.

disc 1. Origins and conflicts of modern politics ; Ancient republics, empires, fiefdoms ; Machiavelli's new order ; Hobbes, natural law, the social contract ; Locke on limited government and toleration ; Rousseau's republican community -- disc 2. Kant's ethics of duty and natural rights ; Smith and the market revolution ; Montesquieu and the American founding ; Debating the French Revolution ; Legacies of the revolution, right to left ; Nationalism and a people's war -- disc 3. Civil society, Constant, Hegel, Tocqueville ; Mill on liberty and utility ; Marx's critique of capitalism ; Modern vs. traditional society ; Progressivism and new liberalism ; Fleeing liberalism, varieties of socialism -- disc 4. Fleeing liberalism, fascism and Carl Schmitt ; Totalitarianism and total war ; Conservative or neoliberal, Oakeshott, Hayek ; Reviving the public realm, Hannah Arendt ; Philosophy vs. politics, Strauss and friends ; Marcuse and the new left -- disc 5. Rawls's A theory of justice ; Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, libertarianism ; What about community? ; Walzer on everything money shouldn't buy ; Identity politics, feminism ; Identity politics, multiculturalism -- disc 6. The politics of nature, environmentalism ; Postmodernism, truth, and power ; Habermas, democracy as communication ; The end of history? Clash of civilizations? ; Just wars? The problem of dirty hands ; Why political philosophy matters.

Professor Calhoone explores modern and contemporary western philosophy of reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), from the 17th to the 20th century, spanning movements such as empircism, rationalism, idealism, philosophy of language, logical positivism, existentialism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and postmodernism.