LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at allowing students to know and to comprehend the evolutionary paths of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought, through the contextualization and the analysis of the most significant theories.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims at allowing students to know and to comprehend the evolutionary paths of the ideas of peace and war in the History of Political Thought, through the contextualization and the analysis of the more significant theories.
(UN-SDG: 4.7) 

TEACHING METHODS

The teaching involves 36 hours (equivalent to 6 CFUs).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Analysis of the ideas of peace and war in:

1) Classical antiquity

2) Late antiquity

3) Middle Ages

4) Modern Age

5) Contemporary Age

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compulsory readings:

C. Brown, T. Nardin and N.Rengger (eds.), International Relations in Political Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. - In detail: Cap. I, Cap. II, Cap. III, Cap. IV, Cap. V (pp. 243-256 and texts by Niccolò Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Alexander Hamilton, Edmund Burke), Cap. VI (pp. 311-324 and texts by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes), Cap. VII (pp. 379-394 and texts by Immanuel Kant), Cap. VIII (pp. 457-469 and texts by Giuseppe Mazzini), Cap. IX (pp. 519-531 and texts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

At students' choice (one book for those who attend the course, two for those who do not):

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.

- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

- Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia.

- Aeschylus, The Persians.

- Desiderius Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace.

- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapters XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII.

- Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace.

- John Mainard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Peace.

- Niccolò Machiavelli, Art of War.

- Angelo Roncalli, Pacem in terris.

- Sophocles, Antigone.

- Henry D. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience.

- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, book V.