This course analyzes the intellectual appropriation of the concept of freedom over time. Emphasis will be given to the dynamic interaction between freedom and social control in classics of Western philosophy from ancient times to modernity. Authors in this study include Plato, Epicurus, Aristotle, Aurelius, Augustine, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx. Prior work in philosophy or political science or permission of instr. Special attention is given to the role of social norms in generating as well as controlling deviance.
Emphasis is put on ways in which social structures generate and label deviants.