Course Description & Objectives:
- Philosophical tools
- Philosophical approaches
- Political philosophy: definition and origins
- Classical and mediaeval political philosophy: Naturalism and the state
- Modern political philosophy; Contractualism and the state
- Contemporary political philosophy; positivism and the state
- Social justice and the state
- Distributive justice and the common good
- liberalism and libertarianism
- Human rights and good governance
- Democracy, constitutionalism and civil disobedience
- Gender equality and equity
- Pragmatic politics: Utilitarianism and pragmatism