ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT.

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Pre-requisites: POLI 202 . Engages thinkers and themes from the political theory of ancient Greece. Authors read include the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, and Seneca, among others. Questions concerning the nature and purpose of politics, the ideal political order, the definition of justice and virtue, and classical conceptions of knowledge, among others, will be pursued in detail. Consideration of the relationship between ancient views and contemporary attitudes.