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Advanced Social & Political Philosophy - ARTS3368
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Humanities
 
 
Course Outline: School of Humanities Courses 2012
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in the Philosophy stream or 72 units of credit overall
 
 
Excluded: ARTS3362
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Subject Area: Philosophy

Topics may include one or more of the following: freedom, sociability, definitions of the human, equality, justice, democracy, constitutionalism and the rule of law, rights, legitimate political power, sovereignty, and states of emergency. Contemporary and historical approaches to political theory considered may include: liberalism, libertarianism, egalitarianism, communitarianism, republicanism, Marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, and cosmopolitanism. Issues in social philosophy discussed may include: individual and collective identity, the public and the private, modernity, cultural criticism, and authority.

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