PS 201 Introduction to Political Thought

Surveys the variety of political philosophy from the Greco-Roman World to the present. Political thinkers regularly considered include Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Jefferson, Burke, Mill and Marx. Attention given to interplay between government and religion and the role of Christianity in civil society. Offered alternate years.