Advanced Social & Political Philosophy - ARTS3368
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities
Course Outline: School of Humanities Course Outlines
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
Excluded: ARTS3362
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Philosophy
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Politics
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.