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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Law and Politics
Course Code EX233
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Thu.4・AB01, Fri.1・5123
Credit 4
Course Number LPX2800
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code EX233

【Course Objectives】

1) To fundamentally contemplate the human-specific activity which is "politics" and to become familiar with its historical aggregation in the Western world.
2) To study the classic texts of political thought and their relationship with that historical context.
3) To understand the genesis and significance of key concepts such as "democracy", "liberty", "equality", and "public sphere" when thinking about modern politics.

【Course Contents】

In these lectures, students will learn how fundamental contemplation about "politics" built up within human history and became crystallized in the "classic texts" which are still read today. Of course, each of the classic texts incorporates the unique historical context in which it was written, and the texts cannot be evaluated without that historical context. However, at the same time the classic texts are not simply "relics of the past" which fade away over time. Therefore, historical and philosophical approaches are both required to study the history of political thought. The first half of the lectures will cover the activities of the ancient Greek polis (city states) up to the establishment of the sovereign state, and the second half will cover the development of the theory of the social contract and the philosophy of Enlightenment up to 20th century political theory.

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