American Revolution and Early Republic, 1775-1820

How do we make sense of Thomas Jefferson as an American revolutionary? As a young man in 1776, he had stirred the world with the radical words "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." ... Yet throughout his life, Jefferson owned hundreds of African-American slaves. View syllabus

Democracy: Origins and Challenges

To understand the origins of democratic regimes is crucial to better understand liberal democracy as practiced in the United States and elsewhere today. This course provides a philosophical foundation of classical, modern, and contemporary theories of democracy and a study of the practical policy consequences of these philosophical origins. View syllabus

Economics and Ideology

This module contains writings in the major paradigms in social philosophy of analysis of relations among state, economy, and society, the study of which is often termed Political Economy. These original texts represent political liberalism, conservatism, Marxism, and communitarianism. View module