Huff, Thomas P.

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University of MontanaScholarWorks at University of MontanaSyllabi Course SyllabiSpring 2-1-2004PHIL 201E.01: Political EthicsThomas P. HuffUniversity of Montana - Missoula, tom.huff@umontana.eduLet us know how access to this document benefits you.Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabiThis Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted forinclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contactscholarworks@mso.umt.edu.Recommended CitationHuff, Thomas P., "PHIL 201E.01: Political Ethics" (2004). Syllabi. 9727.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/9727Philosophy 201 Political Ethics Tom Huff, LA 154 tom.huff@umontana.edu 243-2268 This is a General Education Requirement course. Its purpose is to help you understand and appreciate the sources, the premisses, and the forms of reasoning that have shaped Western thinking about the nature and justifications for our political institutions. To that end, we will study three works, listed below, representative of the three great Western traditions of thought about politics. Our focus will be on the justifications which can be offered for, and the reasoning which is characteristically used in, modem, liberal, constitutional democracies of the sort familiar in modem industrial states (represented by John Rawls), and the ways in which those justifications contrast with early modem political thought (represented by John Locke) and classical thought (represented by Plato). fu order to check your understanding of these matters, as we develop them in class lecture and discussion and in our independent discussion sessions, I will ask you to begin doing this sort of reasoning, yourself, in a series ofquizzes, roughly every two weeks during the term. These quizzes will allow you to discover whether you have grasped the basic concepts ofpolitical thought and their distinctive role in political reasoning of different kinds. Two five page papers, one at midterm and one in place of the final exam, will check your understanding by requiring that you both synthesize the main themes ofwestern political thought and that you be able to apply them to "real world" political problems. Quizzes: 	 Ten points each, drop two lowest, 50% ofyour grade, no make-up quizzes. All quizzes will be taken on Friday, and returned the following Monday. February 6 & 20 March 5 & 19 April 9 & 23 May7 Midterm Paper: Five pages, 25 points, 25% ofyour grade. Due date announced later. Final Paper: Five pages, 25 points, 25% ofyour grade. Due at 10: 10, Thursday May 13 in our classroom (the time scheduled for the final exam). I will also be available at that time to discuss the paper topic, for those who are interested. Reading Assignments: Available on "quiz Fridays" for the following two weeks. Books: Plato, Euthyphro. Apology. and Crito; Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration; Rawls, A Theozy of Justice 

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