Politics and Philosophy

About this course

Politics and philosophy is a pairing with a long and distinguished intellectual history, bringing together two disciplines that both ask fundamental questions about power, value, and how human life should be organised. Politics examines how government policies and decisions are formed, how power is distributed and contested, how democracies function, and what forces drive political change at national and international levels. Philosophy provides the tools of rigorous argument and conceptual analysis to interrogate the foundations of political life, examining ethical theories, questions of justice, rights, liberty and equality, the philosophy of mind, and the nature of knowledge itself. At the London School of Economics and Political Science, this three-year full-time programme is taught by one of the world's leading institutions for the social sciences, with a faculty that includes some

Where its graduates go

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