PHIL 298 - Violence, Inclusion, and Freedom

Political philosophy tries to solve problems that arise when we live together. This course, drawing on contemporary and historical sources, examines three of the most important problems. The first is the problem of violence. Many interesting ideas about how we ought to live together arose during the English Civil War or the French Revolution. We will see that many key problems on how to organize society that stem from those conflicts are still with us today. The second problem is the problem of inclusion, which examines how to live with people who are not like us. What do we owe to strangers? How do considerations of gender and race affect how our political arrangements ought to be? The final problem is the problem of freedom. What is political freedom? What kinds of political freedom are worth having? And why does it matter?

Credits 1