The aim of the course is to inform students about the sociological, economic sources of political ideas, and give them the ability to resolve the psychological causes that contributes on the development of those ideas.

In this course, the process of civilization and the political thinking will be examined from the beginning to the present of the civilization. Moreover, the reflection of political factors that affects the political purposes of political ideas which are being produced, which lead to political consequences will be resolved. In this context, the political thinking systematic of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Augustine, St. Thomas, Thomas More, Machiavelli, Hobbes, John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau will be discussed and analyzed.