Left, Right, and Center

In this course we shall examine liberalism, conservatism, socialism and their competing conceptions of freedom, equality, the individual, and community. We shall consider the origins of these ideologies in early modern political theory and shall afford special attention to the connection between thought and politics. Authors may include John Locke, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Michael Oakeshott. (Political Theory) (Not open to students who have already completed PSCI 0204.)