Lecture course in Political Science

Introduction: The Primal Scene of Politics

1. Political Cosmos of the Ancients

• The World of Hellenes
• The Cosmos of Citizens
• Political Community
• The Birth of The Political Space

2. The Early Political Thought

• One and Many
• Religious Communities
• The Politics of Cosmos
• The Presentation of the Political. The Politics of Tragedy

3. The New Thinking

• Political History
• Politics as Art (Sophist)
• The Aporia of Citizen (Socrates)
• The Followers of Socrates

4. The Righteous Life (Plato)

• The Highest Knowledge
• The Politics of Eros
• The Kingship of Philosophers
• The Weaving of Government
• The Order of the Habits

5. The Living Political (Aristotle)

• Life and Ways
• The Ways of Life
• Human Wisdom
• The Good of the Citizen
• The Art of the Rhetoric

6. The Birth of the Cosmopolitan

• The Political Speech
• The Craving for Infinity
• From Polis to Cosmopolis
• The Homeless Universal

See course pages in the University of Helsinki

See also the Primal Scene project