Advanced Social and Political Philosophy - ARTS3368
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 48 UOC overall, including 6 UOC at level 1 and 6 UOC at level 2 in one of the following streams, Philosophy or Politics
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.