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The course
What is the single greatest work of modern political theory? Actually, it’s no contest: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s On the Social Contract. Janus-like, it looks back on the social contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and others, which it perfects, and forward to the epoch of the philosophies of freedom of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, which it initiates.
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The particulars
Texts
Rousseau, The Social Contract, edition TBA
Format & requirements
We will meet weekly for 3 hours in seminar format. There will be a shorter and longer term paper and a take-home examination.
Prerequisites
POL200Y1/ or POL200Y5 or (POLC70H3 & POLC71H3)
Also listed as
POL2027H1 L0101
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Reading the code
POLPolitical ScienceDepartment of Political Science
485400-levelYear of study this course sits in
HHalf course0.5 credit (FCE)
1St. GeorgeDowntown Toronto campus
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