PHIL 3500

If I could rename this course, it would be "Modern Progressive Egalitarian Philosophy". If that's what you're into, great, take the course. But if you're looking to read classics, study competing perspectives, and freely debate political philosophy then steer clear. We read three books, all with the exact same ideological mission: radical progressivism. We do a reconstruction of the assigned reading's arguments before each class in which we are not allowed to engage with the text, but merely restate the argument. I wouldn't mind doing these assignments if each book offered a new perspective, but like I said it was all the same, all semester. Pure indoctrination. Don't take this class unless you want to sit in an echo chamber reinforcing your radical beliefs. This is not a knock on Nate's character - he's a good guy and always available to help with writing and discuss the text. He just doesn't realize (or doesn't care) how ridiculously tilted the material of the class is. You'd be better off reading Locke, Hobbes, Rawls, etc. on your own and making your own arguments... we are smart people and don't need a random Canadian activist filmmaker (Astra Taylor, one of the authors we read) to tell us what they say from her point of view.