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PHI 1308: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Philosophy
In the early 1960’s, in this midst of his work as a civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., taught an upper-level course in Social Philosophy at Morehouse College. The hand-written syllabus, as well as the final exam, for King’s Morehouse c...
Course · 3d
BIC 2334: World Cultures III: The Modern World
This course focuses on the scientific revolution and continuing advances in the sciences, and on revolutionary ideas in other areas of human experience--political, religious, social, artistic, and economic. The course will explore efforts of the m...
Course · 3d
BIC 2330: Social World I: The City and the Soul
This course studies classic works from the ancient and medieval traditions of western social and political thought up to the modern rejection of those traditions inaugurated by Machiavelli. Ancient and medieval thinkers typically conceived of civi...
Course · 3d
BIC 2340: Social World II: Modernity and the Problem of Order
This course studies classic modern works of western social and political thought that have played a formative role in the rise of modern political life and contemporary social science. In works by Hobbes and Locke, for example, we explore the orig...
Course · 3d