Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Define political thought
• List questions covered by political thought
• Contrast political theory to political thought
• Explain the concept of "classics" in relation to political thought
• Discuss the concept of justice
• Contrast Socrates’ political ideology to that of Plato
• Explain Plato’s philosophy of education
• Summarize the political ideology of the earliest political thinkers
• Explain ethics and virtue as political concepts
• List the major works of Aristotle
• Discuss the philosophical concepts of household, property and economy
• Define a constitution