Capstone Seminar on a Topic in Philosophy
Prerequisite: Course intended for philosophy majors. Students should have completed at least five philosophy courses.
This course engages the student in an analysis and discussion of special problems found in various areas of philosophy. Student should have completed five philosophy courses.
Outcomes: Students will develop a more advanced understanding of the philosophical enterprise, through direct student participation in an interactive seminar environment.
Prerequisite: Course intended for philosophy majors. Students should have completed at least five philosophy courses.
This course engages the student in an analysis and discussion of special problems found in various areas of philosophy. Student should have completed five philosophy courses.
Outcomes: Students will develop a more advanced understanding of the philosophical enterprise, through direct student participation in an interactive seminar environment.
Prerequisite: Course intended for philosophy majors. Students should have completed at least five philosophy courses.
This course will focus on issues in social and political philosophy concerning revolution. Though we often use the word ¿revolution¿ uncritically, this concept operates at the very limits of the political and raises a number of important questions and puzzles about the stability and legitimacy of the state. Central to this course will be the questions of whether revolution can be justified, when certain forms of oppression and exclusion necessitate violence against the state, what it means to organize collectively in the name of revolution, and why it is that some revolutions are remembered while others are forgotten. To engage these questions, the course will include readings from figures such as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, C.L.R. James, and Frantz Fanon, each of whom offer distinct perspectives on the role of revolution in the modern state. The course will consider the relevance of these perspectives not only for understanding revolutions of the past but also for understanding the scope and limits of calls for revolution in contemporary political life.
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