Programma

The first classes will be dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts and categories of political thought: moderna state, natural law and natural rights, contract theory, constitutionalism, representation, sovereignty, democracy. Then classics political thinkers and topics will be examined.
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Utopia and dystopian thought
- Machiavelli
– Modern state and absolutism
– Absolutism and sovereignty in Jean Bodin
- Thomas Hobbes
– The origins of classical liberalism: John Locke
- Montesquieu
– Lights and shadows of Enlightment: Rousseau and the general will
- Theoretical aspects of the American Revolution
- Theoretical aspects of the French Revolution
– The debate on the American democracy: Tocqueville
– Socialism and Karl Marx.
– The élite theorists: Mosca, Pareto and Michels.
– Totalitarianism
- Carl Schmitt
– Against totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Friedrick von Hayek, Karl Popper.
– Classical liberalism in the Twentieth century: the Austrian School of Economics: Menger, Mises, Hayek
- The contemporary debate on justice:Rawls, Rothbard, Nozick
– Contemporary egalitarianism and its difficulties

Testi Adottati

L.. BASSANI, A. MINGARDI, Dalla Polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero politico, Giappichelli, 2022

M. N. ROTHBARD, Contro l'egalitarismo, Liberilibri, 2023

Programma

The first classes will be dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts and categories of political thought: moderna state, natural law and natural rights, contract theory, constitutionalism, representation, sovereignty, democracy. Then classics political thinkers and topics will be examined.
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Utopia and dystopian thought
- Machiavelli
– Modern state and absolutism
– Absolutism and sovereignty in Jean Bodin
- Thomas Hobbes
– The origins of classical liberalism: John Locke
- Montesquieu
– Lights and shadows of Enlightment: Rousseau and the general will
- Theoretical aspects of the American Revolution
- Theoretical aspects of the French Revolution
– The debate on the American democracy: Tocqueville
– Socialism and Karl Marx.
– The élite theorists: Mosca, Pareto and Michels.
– Totalitarianism
- Carl Schmitt
– Against totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Friedrick von Hayek, Karl Popper.
– Classical liberalism in the Twentieth century: the Austrian School of Economics: Menger, Mises, Hayek
- The contemporary debate on justice:Rawls, Rothbard, Nozick
– Contemporary egalitarianism and its difficulties

Testi Adottati

L.. BASSANI, A. MINGARDI, Dalla Polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero politico, Giappichelli, 2022

M. N. ROTHBARD, Contro l'egalitarismo, Liberilibri, 2023

Programma

The first classes will be dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts and categories of political thought: moderna state, natural law and natural rights, contract theory, constitutionalism, representation, sovereignty, democracy. Then classics political thinkers and topics will be examined.
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Utopia and dystopian thought
- Machiavelli
– Modern state and absolutism
– Absolutism and sovereignty in Jean Bodin
- Thomas Hobbes
– The origins of classical liberalism: John Locke
- Montesquieu
– Lights and shadows of Enlightment: Rousseau and the general will
- Theoretical aspects of the American Revolution
- Theoretical aspects of the French Revolution
– The debate on the American democracy: Tocqueville
– Socialism and Karl Marx.
– The élite theorists: Mosca, Pareto and Michels.
– Totalitarianism
- Carl Schmitt
– Against totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Friedrick von Hayek, Karl Popper.
– Classical liberalism in the Twentieth century: the Austrian School of Economics: Menger, Mises, Hayek
- The contemporary debate on justice:Rawls, Rothbard, Nozick
– Contemporary egalitarianism and its difficulties

Testi Adottati

L.. BASSANI, A. MINGARDI, Dalla Polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero politico, Giappichelli, 2022

M. N. ROTHBARD, Contro l'egalitarismo, Liberilibri, 2023

Programma

The first classes will be dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts and categories of political thought: moderna state, natural law and natural rights, contract theory, constitutionalism, representation, sovereignty, democracy. Then classics political thinkers and topics will be examined.
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Utopia and dystopian thought
- Machiavelli
– Modern state and absolutism
– Absolutism and sovereignty in Jean Bodin
- Thomas Hobbes
– The origins of classical liberalism: John Locke
- Montesquieu
– Lights and shadows of Enlightment: Rousseau and the general will
- Theoretical aspects of the American Revolution
- Theoretical aspects of the French Revolution
– The debate on the American democracy: Tocqueville
– Socialism and Karl Marx.
– The élite theorists: Mosca, Pareto and Michels.
– Totalitarianism
- Carl Schmitt
– Against totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Friedrick von Hayek, Karl Popper.
– Classical liberalism in the Twentieth century: the Austrian School of Economics: Menger, Mises, Hayek
- The contemporary debate on justice:Rawls, Rothbard, Nozick
– Contemporary egalitarianism and its difficulties

Testi Adottati

L.. BASSANI, A. MINGARDI, Dalla Polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla storia del pensiero politico, Giappichelli, 2022

M. N. ROTHBARD, Contro l'egalitarismo, Liberilibri, 2023