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PHIL130 HM - Political Philosophy

Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Wright

Description: The major traditions of political thought from antiquity to the present, with emphasis on the modern era, including natural rights theory, social contract theory, political individualism and its critics, the twentieth-century transformation of political liberalism, and the underpinnings of contemporary conservatism.

HSA Course Area(s): Philosophy
HSA Writing Intensive: No