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Michael Forman
TSMIN 310
Tacoma Campus
Examines the emergence and development of modern European political thought through selected works by some of its most important exponents. Analyzes answers to questions about the nature of a political community, about citizenship and rights, about the evolving meaning of freedom, equality, and democracy.
Class description
Although most of us are not aware of it, we all think about politics using concepts and theories that we inherit from figures such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, and Karl Marx. This course looks at the principal works of these authors and explores how they define our ideas about such things as freedom, democracy, society, nation, and state.
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