Course catalogue | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Storia delle dottrine politiche (SPS/02)
Field: Discipline storico-sociali, giuridico-economiche, politologiche e delle relazioni internazionali
Type of training activity: Characterising

36 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

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Integrated course unit module: HISTORY OF EUROPEAN POLITICAL DOCTRINES

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with a critical awareness of the origin and development of the fundamental concepts of ancient and modern western political thought.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The course will focus on an analysis of the origin and development of the main concepts in the ancient and modern Western political thought, by the study of the most significant authors.

Full programme

The origins of the political thought in the ancient Greece; the political thought of the main greek authors: Socrate, Platone, Aristotele; political thought and right in the roman republic; the roman thought: Polibio and Cicerone; the coming of Christianity; politics and common-wealth in S. Tommaso; Machiavelli; State and sovereignty: Bodin; State of nature, civil society, authority and liberty in Hobbes; Locke’s political thought; Constitution, powers and liberty in Montesquieu; liberty and equality in Rousseau; David Hume; the American Revolution and “the Federalist”; representation, parties and revolution in Burke; Kant’s political thought; the liberalism: Constant; democracy and liberty in Tocqueville; the communist doctrine of Marx, liberty and representation in Stuart Mill.

Bibliography

M. D’Addio, Storia delle dottrine politiche, Genova, ECIG, 2002
chapters:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 31, 32.

Teaching methods

frontal lessons and lecture and analysis of calssic texts

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam

Other information

Integrated exam with Storia delle Dottrine Politiche (Prof. N. Antonetti).

EUROPEAN POLITICAL DOCTRINES cod. 23898