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En ciencia política está disponible el curso:

PLSC 114 - Introduction to Political Philosophy
Professor Steven Smith
Fall, 2006

This course is intended as an introduction to political philosophy as seen through an examination of some of the major texts and thinkers of the Western political tradition. Three broad themes that are central to understanding political life are focused upon: the polis experience (Plato, Aristotle), the sovereign state (Machiavelli, Hobbes), constitutional government (Locke), and democracy (Rousseau, Tocqueville). The way in which different political philosophies have given expression to various forms of political institutions and our ways of life are examined throughout the course.

http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/introduction-to-political-philosophy/content/class-sessions

Un par de las sesiones del curso están dedicadas a Maquiavelo, como saben, figura muy apreciada en este blog. Les recomiendo escuchar esas clases. La primera de ellas empieza con un video de la película "El tercer hombre", a continuación:



"You know what the fellow said in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/introduction-to-political-philosophy/content/sessions/lecture10.html

http://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/introduction-to-political-philosophy/content/sessions/lecture11.html