Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2021

POSC 260   Foundations of Political Thought (TH)
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2022 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquirySocial Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices

This introduction to political thought explores the questions: What is a just society? What is the best way of life? The course examines major alternatives from Plato to Nietzsche, as well as recent critics and defenders of American liberal democracy. (TH)