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POL 313 History of Political Thought

300 levelSocial Sciences10 topics

POL 313 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and scope of political thought
  2. Plato's theory of the ideal state and justice
  3. Aristotle's political theory
  4. Machiavelli and the modern state
  5. Thomas Hobbes and the social contract
  6. John Locke and natural rights
  7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the general will
  8. Hegel's theory of the state
  9. Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism
  10. Karl Marx and historical materialism

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Nature and scope of political thought

The nature and scope of political thought deals with what political thought is, the kinds of questions it asks, and the range of issues it covers in public life. For exams, you must master both its meaning as systematic reflection on politics and its scope as extending to the state, power, authority, justice, liberty, rights, law, obligation, and political institutions.

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