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.
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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.
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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.
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