Philosophy 290-5
Spring 2025
| Number | Title | Instructor | Days/time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 290-5 | Graduate Seminar: Political Realism – Classical Roots and Contemporary Issues | Sluga | Th 10-12 | Philosophy 234 |
Here are some of the topics to be covered:
Why be realists?
Ideals and possibilities (Aristotle, Politics)
The moral and the useful (Machiavelli, The Prince)
The natural and the contractual (Hobbes, Leviathan)
Virtues and laws (Hanfei)
Unity and plurality (S. Hampshire, Innocence and Experience)
Values and fear (B. Williams, In the Beginning was the Deed)
Theory and political practice: (Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics)
The epistemology of political realism
Experience and politics
Realism and uncertainty
The dialectic of politics