Political ideas

What it covers

In this unit you will survey a broad spectrum of political thinkers and explore their ideas and the historical contexts in which these ideas emerge. You will gain an understanding of key concepts and arguments in political philosophy concerning order and disorder, power and authority, tradition and change. The thinkers studied, such as Socrates, Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Burke, and Marx, are discussed with reference to both the contexts in which they lived and the significance of their ideas both within and beyond those contexts.

Assessment

When and where