POLITICAL THOUGHT

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Weeks	Topics
1. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning fundamental perspectives in political thought
2. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning fundamental concepts in political thought
3. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning works and ideas of both Ancient Greece and Rome that played a foundational role in shaping modern political thoughts
4. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide a broad information concerning medieval political thought in Islamic world through works and arguments of leading Islamic scholars
5. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide necessary basic knowledge concerning leading ideas and scholars flourished during the Medieval Age of political philosophy
6. Weeks	This lecture is primarily dedicated to provide necessary basic knowledge concerning leading ideas and scholars flourished during the Medieval Age of political philosophy
7. Weeks	This week is allocated for the mid-term exam that covers up topics discussed beforehand
8. Weeks	This week primarily aims to focus on foundational works of political figures such as Calvin, Bodin, Machiavelli ,Locke, More, Hobbes and Hume and explain how their ideas changed the course of political thought
9. Weeks	This week primarily focuses on the Age of Enlightenment and political ideas emerged during this age
10. Weeks	This week primarily focuses on the ideas shaped the period following the Age of Enlightenment such as works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville
11. Weeks	This week primarily focuses on the radical ideas that played influential role both in their own age and in the contemporary political thought, such as Marxism and Anarchism
12. Weeks	This week primarily focuses on the central issue of political thought which is the idea of justice and provides a broad framework concerning the idea of justice in Ancient Greece and Rome
13. Weeks	This week primarily focuses on the mainstream theories of social justice such as Utilitarianism, Libertarian Model, Rawlsian Model, and the capability approach to justice
14. Weeks	This week is allocated for the final exam that covers up topics discussed during the semester