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Quick Facts

Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
Self StudyVideo and Text Based

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 06 Jan, 2025

End Date : 30 Apr, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 28 Feb, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 17 May, 2025

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
yesKashmir University

The Syllabus

  • What is Political Philosophy?
  • Approaches to the Interpretation of texts
  • Quentin Skinner’s Approach to Interpretation
  • Plato: Introduction

  • Plato’s Method and Theory of Forms
  • Plato’s concept of Philosopher King
  • Justice: Plato’s Critique of earlier notions & his own Theory of Justice
  • Plato’s concept of Education

  • Plato’s idea of Communism
  • Plato’s views on Women and Guardianship
  • Plato’s views on Censorship
  • Aristotle: Introduction & Method

  • Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato
  • Aristotle’s Theory of Justice
  • Aristotle on Family, Property, and Slavery
  • Aristotle’s Theory on Revolution

  • Aristotle’s State and Political man
  • Aristotle’s Classification of Government
  • Political Philosophy of St. Augustine
  • Political Philosophy of St. Thomas Acquinas

  • Political Philosophy of Marsiglio of Padua
  • Machiavelli: Introduction
  • Machiavelli on Human Nature
  • Machiavelli’s views on Secularism

  • Machiavelli’s views on Republicanism
  • Machiavelli’s Statecraft
  • Hobbes: Introduction
  • Hobbesian State of Nature

  • Hobbes: Social Contract
  • Thomas Hobbes’ theory of State and Sovereignty
  • Hobbes: Individualism
  • John Locke: Introduction

  • John Locke and his Political Thought
  • John Locke’s Theory of Natural Rights
  • Locke’s Theory of Property: Justification and Critique
  • John Locke on Limited Government & Right to Dissent

  • John Locke: on the Laws of Nature
  • Political Philosophy of Montesquieu
  • Political Philosophy of Rousseau Part I
  • Political Philosophy of Rousseau Part II

  • Rousseau on Democracy 
  • Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
  • Political Philosophy of George Hegel
  • Hegel’s concept of State and Civil Society

  • Political Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green
  • Political Philosophy of Bentham
  • Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
  • John Stuart Mill’s the Subjection of Women

  • Karl Marx –A Profile
  • Karl Marx –Life and Works
  • Marxist Theory of Historical Materialism
  • Marxian Concept of Class

  • Conflict Theory with Special Reference to Karl Marx
  • Karl Marx’s views on Capitalism
  • Karl Marx on Alienation

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