Wednesday, December 14, 2016

My favourite subject this semester

Hello classmates,

My favourite subject this semester is by far political philosophy.

The classes of the professor Dario Montero were really good, he is a really pedagogical teacher. His lessons consists in the explanation of the political philosophers, their arguments and the historical context that led them to think in the way they were thinking.

We talk about the political philosophy of Platon and Aristotle, the classics.
Then we talk about the modern political philosophers, starting for Descartes, then the contractualists Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and we finish with the german romanticism, they answer and critique the modern philosophers. We studied the philosophy of Herder, Kant, Schiller and Hegel.

I think my interest of political philosophy is because it's pretty interesting the discussion of how we should organizate as a society, or as a global society, even as a species. Is a fascinating subject because it comprehends ethics, anthropology, ontology, teleology even aesthetics. Also is interesting because a political philosopher has to critique, attack other points of views and defend other one. There's a lot of political philosophers I want to read, like MacIntyre, Rorty, Berlin or the book of Honneth and Fraser !

2 comments:

  1. The teachers I think are key in how you conceive the themes

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  2. When we like one class, we enjoy participate. That happend to me last semester with anthropology III and this semester with Euskera. This summer I will to work hard to buy all books that I want hahaha

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