Fall/Winter Timetable
POL407Y1Y L0101
Graduate Course Code: POL2041Y1Y L0101
The Politics of Origins
Themes
What are the implications of accounts of human beginnings for our understanding of political life? We compare the book of Genesis with such appropriate counterparts from the classical and modern western traditions as Hesiod’s Theogony, Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, and Rousseau’s Second Discourse.
Prerequisites
POL200Y1 and POL320Y1 / POL323H1 / POL323Y1 / POL330H1 / POL330Y1 OR an appropriate Jewish Studies course
Exclusions
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May 21, 2020
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January 29, 2020
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