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17.04[J] Modern Conceptions of Freedom
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(Same subject as CC.111[J])
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: TR3-4.30 (16-160)
Students read early modern political theorists, and trace the growth of the value of freedom. Examines the modern definition of freedom, and the obligations that people accept in honoring it. Also investigates how these obligations are captured in the principles of our political association. Studies how the centrality of freedom plays out in the political thought of such authors as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke and Montesquieu. Students also debate which notions of freedom inspire and sustain the American experiment by carefully reading the documents and arguments of the founding of the United States. Preference to students in Concourse.
L. Rabieh
Textbooks (Spring 2020)
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