Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES / POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS / SBU2010 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHTS II

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Course Objective

Brief Content of the Course

History of Political Thought II examines new currents of thought in Europe after the Middle Ages, focusing on political ideas and biographies of their representatives. It analyzes the relationship between these ideas and the political sphere. The course traces the history of European political thought from the 15th/16th centuries to the early 20th century.  Key thinkers explored include:

Reformists: Martin Luther, Jean Calvin
Humanists: Desiderius Erasmus
Seekers of social/political order: Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella
Pre-modern political science pioneer: Niccolo Machiavelli
Architects of modern philosophy/law: Rene Descartes, Hugo Grotius
Pioneers of secularism/liberal state: Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes
Between Machiavelli & Hobbes: Jean Bodin
Architect of experimentalism: Francis Bacon
Founder of liberalism (and French reflection): John Locke, Voltaire
Early comparative politics: Montesquieu
Liberal-conservative thinker: Edmund Burke
French social contract theorist: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
British empiricist & opponent: David Hume, Immanuel Kant
Follower of Kant's idealism: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Transformer of Hegelian dialectic: Karl Marx
Communist doctrinaire: Friedrich Engels
19th-century liberals: Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville
Political sociologist: Max Weber

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Course Objectives

Course Objectives

To provide skills about reading original texts of philosophers that produce political thought

To provide skills about comparing different political thoughts

Making it easier for students produce solutions about problems of societies

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