{"id":9162,"date":"2025-09-24T23:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.econ.uoa.gr\/?post_type=course&p=9162"},"modified":"2025-11-06T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:58:12","slug":"soc301-social-science-composition","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/www.econ.uoa.gr\/en\/course\/soc301-social-science-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"SOC301 - Social Science Composition (Semester 1) not offered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

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COURSE OBJECTIVE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The course offers an introduction to political (and social) philosophy, emphasizing students' contact with the original texts of different thinkers, and reflection on fundamental issues that concern the social sciences. Some of the key issues examined are: the role of the state, social contract theories and their criticism, liberalism and its criticism, utilitarianism, democracy and its problems, individual rights and freedoms, and justice.
\nThe aim of the course is to present the development of contemporary Western political philosophy, through specific thematic units and authors. The negotiation of each thematic unit is done through the texts of one or more representative (and usually different in their perception) thinkers, while emphasis is given to those issues that are directly related to the subject of political economy. Among the main authors examined are Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, JS Mill, Rawls, Nozick, Sen, Cohen, etc.<\/p>\n

CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The course is divided into the following sub-themes. In each section, the names of the authors whose text excerpts are examined are also noted:<\/p>\n

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  • Introduction to political and social philosophy; the distinction between ethical and analytic propositions; the concept of the state [Locke, Weber]<\/li>\n
  • Natural law and social contract [Aristotle, Grotius, Hobbes]<\/li>\n
  • From Hobbes to modern notarialism: the natural state, role and legitimation of state power [Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Owen, Kropotkin, Gauthier]<\/li>\n
  • The "inner criticism" in the Enlightenment [Hume, Burke]<\/li>\n
  • Classical liberalism \u2013 utilitarianism [JS Mill and Bentham]<\/li>\n
  • Democracy and its problems [Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau, Sen, Pateman, Lenin]<\/li>\n
  • On individual freedom and individual rights [Mill, Bentham, Nozick, Marx]<\/li>\n
  • On Justice [Rawls, Nozick, Cohen]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \u00a0<\/strong>The final course material consists of excerpts from the original texts discussed in the lectures, as well as the relevant secondary bibliography.<\/p>\n

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    Excerpts from the original texts of the authors being examined are distributed in the classroom and\/or via e-class. From the secondary bibliography, the following are used as indicative aids:<\/p>\n

    Kitromilidis, Paschalis M. 2000. Modern Political Theory, Athens: Ant. Sakkoulas.
    \nKymlicka, Will 2002. The Political Philosophy of Our Time. Athens: Polis.
    \nSabine, George H. 1961 History of Political Theories. Athens: M. Pehlivanidis & Co..
    \nMcClelland, John S. 1996. A History of Western Political Thought. London: Routledge. Chapter 10, pp. 163-180.
    \nHampshire-Monk, Iain 1992. A History of Modern Political Thought. Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx. Oxford: Blackwell.
    \nHargreaves-Heap, Shaun and Varoufakis, Yanis. 2004. Game theory \u2013 a critical introduction. London and New York: Routledge.
    \nWolff, Jonathan. 1996. An Introduction to Political Philosophy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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