Basic course 2: How has democracy evolved?

To do this, we will be dividing its history into three periods: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages and the modern age.

You will find some basic information about the classical authors of political philosophy on a special page. For implementing this theoretical material in the classroom, you might want to use a fictitious TV debate between Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, which clearly explains their respective philosophies on the state:

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