political theory
Compare two of the following regarding their view of the influence of economic activity on political life: Plato, John Locke, Karl Marx, Max Weber and/or Milton Friedman.
Kant writes: “Enlightenment [Aufklärung] is the human being’s emergence from his self-incurred minority [unmundigkeit].” Compare two of the following thinkers’ conception of rationality and the influence it has had – and/or ought to have had – on moral and political life: Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, J.S. Mill, and/or Theodor Adorno.
Compare and contrast two of following thinkers’ regarding their view of meaning and importance of political equality: Plato, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville, Hannah Arendt, and/or Milton Friedman.
Compare and Contrast two of the following thinkers’ critiques of modern society: Karl Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and/or Theodor Adorno.
