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Political Theory
Authority, liberty, equality, and power, one tradition at a time. Later headings open after the one before. Read a political-theory argument — authority, liberty, equality, power — and answer it in the terms the text actually uses.
- 6 headings
- Ladder
- Test out a heading you have
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A class on this path
Plato and Aristotle · First class
Pick where you want to start
Each heading is its own course. Later ones open when you finish — or skip — the one before. A later course does not reteach earlier bands.
Plato and Aristotle
Start hereState the justice question in the Republic and Politics, and object to it without flattening either text.
Social contract
After Plato and Aristotle — test out to unlockSeparate Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau on the state of nature, consent, and what the sovereign may do.
Liberalism
After Social contract — test out to unlockUse Mill (and a later liberal) on harm, liberty, and majority tyranny on a concrete ban or mandate.
Marx and critics
After Liberalism — test out to unlockState exploitation and ideology as Marx uses them, then a serious liberal or conservative objection.
Justice
After Marx and critics — test out to unlockRun a Rawls original-position argument, then Nozick or a luck-egalitarian objection, on a tax or health scheme.
Power and democracy
After Justice — test out to unlockSay what a democracy owes minorities and what “power” is doing in a modern state, with a named theorist.
What this is for
- 01
State the justice question in the Republic and Politics, and object to it without flattening either text.
- 02
Separate Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau on the state of nature, consent, and what the sovereign may do.
- 03
Use Mill (and a later liberal) on harm, liberty, and majority tyranny on a concrete ban or mandate.
Why a path, not a playlist
Authority, liberty, equality, and power, one tradition at a time. Later headings open after the one before.
Each heading is its own course with a tutor. Later headings open when you finish — or test out of — the one before.
After you sign in
- •You land on this map — every heading is already there.
- •Take the open class, or test out of a later heading to unlock it.
- •Each heading is one shared course — same syllabus and first class for everyone. Later classes continue on your copy.