Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy 3700-AL-ISP-qDP
Konwersatorium (KON) Semestr zimowy 2023/24

1. Plato’s „Republic”. The allegory of a cave and the concept of an ideal state.

2. Man among men: the perspective of Aristotle and the perspective of Hobbes.

3. The theories of the origin of the state and civil society.

4. John Locke. Classical liberalism and the concept of equality.

5. Jean-Jacque Rousseau: the roots of inequality and the concept of freedom.

6. Immanuel Kant’s Ethics and the Metaphysic of Morals.

7. Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill: From Classical to Neoclassical utilitarianism.

8. Edmund Burke. From traditional conservatism to neoconservatism.

9. Max Weber. Religion and the emergence of the spirit of modern capitalism.

10. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: between socialism and communism.

11. Theories of nationalism. Nation, ethnic group, and identity.

12. John Rawls. The Theory of Justice.

13. Simone De Beauvoir. Feminism and social justice.

14. Zygmunt Bauman. From modern to postmodern, liquid modernity.

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