POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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Learning Outcomes

Analyses a variety of problems in political philosophy.
Composes the fundamental qualities of the relation of ethics and politics.
Explains the basic concepts of political philosophy such as state, society, law, order, freedom/liberty, sovereignty etc.
Illustrates the justifying principles which could be asserted for distinct ethico-political perspectives, and critically analyses those principles.
Evaluates the views on state of nature and the birth of the state.
Questions the concept of "state of nature".
Critically analyses the process of the birth of state as a solution to the problem of living in communities/societies.
Proposes philosophical solutions to the problems arising during the birth of the state and authority.
Formulates the pros and cons of a democratic government.
Explains and illustrates a variety of advantages an individual enjoys by living in a society governed by democracy.
Explains and illustrates the disadvantages and mutual responsibilities faced by an individual living in a democratically ruled society.
Evaluates the moral foundations of the freedom of individual and the limitations of the society.
Compares and relates the deontological and teleological moral theories.
Debates the moral theories and estimates which theory supplies the best justification for the freedom of the individual in political society.
Composes her/his own view on human rights.
Recognises basic human rights and illustrates the various attitudes adopted by different types of government towards the execution of human rights via legislation.
Debates and judges the best options on how governments/states make human rights applicable.
Estimates the possible problems to be faced when there are no human rights at all and/or when the rule of law is abolished.
Recognises the current issues in political philosophy.
Defines the concepts justice and injustice, and relates the different applications on justice with the different models of state/government.
Defines, explains and illustrates the concept of ideology.
Distinguishes the pros and cons of globalisation, compares these pros and cons.
Evaluates nation-states and racism with regard to multiculturalism and globalisation.
Compares the conceptions of society and the state by the liberalists and communitarianists, with regard to the criterion of the enjoyment of individual and social liberties and rights.
Defines and explains liberalism.
Defines and explains communitarianism.
Analyses the models of society and state envisaged by liberalism and communitarianism, and proposes philosophical solutions to the problems arising due to these models.
Analyses the models of society and state envisaged by liberalism and communitarianism, and proposes philosophical solutions to the problems arising due to these models.
Composes her/his own view on social and economical justice.
Defines the concept of justice and recognises this concept through its various dimensions.
Compares and evaluates the views on justice.
Proposes the realisation of social and economical justice, as a persistent solution to the problems concerning government.
Critically analyses ideologies.
Explains the philosophical foundations of the concept of ideology.
Explains what having a definite ideological background means for a society.
Illustrates, compares and criticises different ideologies.
Distinguishes the descriptive and the normative aspects of multiculturalism, questions and criticises racism.
Defines multiculturalism (descriptive).
Defines multiculturalism (normative).
Distinguishes the descriptive and the normative aspects of multiculturalism on the basis of what is-what ought to be.
Explains what racism is, identifies the problems it causes, and criticises racism.
Composes her/his own view concerning nation-states and globalisation.
Defines the concepts of nation-state and globalisation.
Explains the historical background of nation-states and of globalisation.
Debates the relation of nation-states and globalisation in current circumstances.
Evaluates nation-states and globalisation as problems of political philosophy.