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HISTORY OF POLITICAL DOCTRINE
cod. 00983

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
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
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Integrated course unit module: HISTORY OF POLITICAL DOCTRINE

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Learning objectives

The aim of the module is to teach students about the main concepts of political thought in the modern and contemporary age (state, rights, representation, sovereignty, etc.).

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

 The course will be dedicated to the evolution, throughout the history of political thought, of the main concepts that mark the origin and the early stages of development of the state from antiquity to the modern age (Republic, principality, sovereignty).

Full programme

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Bibliography

M. D’Addio, Storia delle dottrine politiche, Genoa, ECIG, 2002 (single volume), following chapters: <br />
Ch. 1 (Greek civilisation and politics); Ch. 3 (Philosophy and politics: Plato); Ch. 4 (Politics as science: Aristotle); Ch. 5 (Authority, power, Empire: the Roman political experience); Ch. 10 (Political realism and autonomy of politics: Machiavelli); Ch. 11 (The state and the international community: Bodin and Suarez); Ch. 13 (Reason, law of nature and politics: Hobbes’ Leviathan state); Ch. 15 (Society of nature, civil society and constitutional state for Locke); Ch. 17 (Liberty and constitutional state: Montesquieu); Ch. 18 (Liberty and equality: the democratic state. Rousseau); Ch. 20 (The Federalist. The American Revolution and the formation of the United States); Ch. 21 (History, revolution and state. Burke); Ch. 26 (Liberalism and constitutional state: Constant); Ch. 27 (Liberty and equality: the problem of democracy. Tocqueville). Ch. 32 (Utilitarianism and liberalism: Stuart Mill). <br />

Teaching methods

An oral exam may be taken. <br />
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The exam will be integrated with the exam on the course in European Political Doctrines (Prof. Truffelli), giving rise to a single mark. <br />

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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