K. Marx and F. Engels PHIL 10006 carries 20 credit points. The full and definitive statement of criteria for award of credit and assessment, and essay deadlines, are contained in the department's undergraduate student handbook. The summative assessment for this unit is by end of year examination.
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THE AIM of this part of the unit is to acquaint you with political philosophy as a distinct area of study within philosophy and to indicate the contribution which philosophical thinking can make to an understanding of political issues. We shall examine two nineteenth century texts, the Essay on Liberty by John Stuart Mill and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and consider the relevance they have for current theories in political philosophy. Any edition is acceptable for the texts, but page references in the lectures will be to the Fontana edition of Mill in Utilitarianism and On Liberty ed M Warnock and to the Penguin edition of Marx in The Revolutions of 1848 ed D Fernbach. Any items available electronically are marked E . Express and critically assess the principle enunciated by J. S. Mill in the Essay on Liberty .