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PSC 205 (I,II-4) The Ancient Greeks: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Politics: This course will focus on some of the cultural and political preoccupations of the Ancient Greeks during the “Golden Age of Athens.” Our topics will include some traditional philosophical questions (e.g., what is the nature of justice?). But we will also bring the Greeks into conversation with contemporary political controversies, and we will also examine relationship between philosophy and other ways of viewing the world, especially tragedy. Can philosophical reasoning rationally discover truths, and can it justify the best way to organize social and political life? Or is politics always bound up with ungovernable (and tragic) experiences? |