Intro to Political Theory

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How should we act? What do we owe the community – and what does the community owe us? These questions and more animate political philosophy, which takes as its starting point the plurality of human beings, 'the fact that men, not man, live on the earth and inhabit the world,' as political theorist Hannah Arendt has written. The problems and promise that come from human beings dwelling together will be the subject of this course. Through a changing set of diverse texts, we will explore together the dilemmas, tensions, and potentials of human beings going on together in a political community. 002007