Within the course, key moments from the history of social and political philosophy are analyzed, with the aim of familiarizing oneself with the questions included in this fairly broad field, understanding basic concepts about how philosophy has addressed issues concerning political and social life, and becoming aware of critical and open questions concerning concepts related to politics, democracy, and social competition.
- The course includes thirteen lectures which include the
following sections - Introductory lecture
- The political thought of Plato and Aristotle
- Machiavelli's thought
- Social Contract Theories (I): Hobbes
- Social Contract Theories (II): Locke
- Spinoza as an exception in political philosophy
- Kant's political and moral philosophy
- Hegel's theory of the state and bourgeois society
- Variants of Liberalism
- The intersection of Karl Marx
- Hannah Arendt's thought
- Antonio Gramsci and the theorization of hegemony
- Lesson conclusions
