POLT 251 - Political Responsibility

FC SSCI

4 credits
Actions always have consequences. In politics, who is responsible for those consequences, to whom, and why? How can we hold others responsible and assume our own responsibility? We will examine moral and legal responsibility, the responsibility of political leaders, social responsibility, and existential responsibility in political theory, philosophy, and literature. Authors will include Aristotle, Weber, Arendt, and Sartre.