Course : Authority and Leadership from Thucydides to Adam Smith
LEPE1 - Despina Vertzagia, Georgios Steiris, Spiros Tegos
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I. Introduction: Authority, Power, and Political Leadership
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II. Thucydides and Xenophon: Political Leadership, Power, and the Art of Ruling
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III. Plato and Cicero: Political Knowledge, Virtue, and Auctoritas
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IV. The Machiavellian leader 1
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V. The Machiavellian leader 2
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VI. The Machiavellian leader 3
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VII. Thomas Hobbes: Authorization, Sovereignty, and Political Obligation
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VIII. Authority of the assembly and democracy in the work of John Adams
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IX. Authority of the institutions of the Old Regime and the authority of the new republican institutions during the French Revolution
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X. Authority, power, and the common interest in political systems according to David Hume
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XI. Authority, power, and the common interest in political systems according to Adam Smith
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I. Introduction: Authority, Power, and Political Leadership
VIII. Authority of the assembly and democracy in the work of John Adams
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Keywords
ethics; morality; good; evil; ethical stance; consequentialism; deontology; virtue ethics; metaethics; applied ethics; theoretical ethics; normative ethics
Required readings
- Driver, Julia. "Moral Theory." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition). Edited by Edward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/moral-theory/.
Complementary readings
- Parry, Richard and Harald Thorsrud. "Ancient Ethical Theory." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition). Edited by Edward N. Zalta. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/ethics-ancient/.
- Savulescu, Julian, and Evangelos D. Protopapadakis. “'Ethical Minefields' and the Voice of Common Sense: A Discussion with Julian Savulescu." Conatus - Journal of Philosophy 4, no. 1 (2019): 125–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.12681/cjp.19712.