Fall/Winter Timetable

POL2061H1F L0101

Undergraduate Course Code: POL461H1F L0101

Studies in Civic Republicanism

Themes

This course will investigate Augustine's unusual development of the republican political traditions he inherited from Cicero, Sallust, Livy, and other theorists of Roman civic virtue.

Texts

Augustine, City of God and Augustine, Political Writings.

Format and Requirements

One two-hour seminar per week. We will begin with some lectures on Harrington; seminars on Hobbes, Harrington, and potentially other 17th-century republican thinkers thereafter.