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This course intends to provide basic knowledge of political philosophy. It aims primarily to bring out the fundamental relation between the nature of politics, different values, and the formation of political outlooks. The themes explored in the course follow from three crucial problems: the relation between the good man and the good citizen (the relation between ethics and politics), the interrelation between philosophy and politics (the interplay between knowledge and power), and the distinction between ancient and modern systems of thought. This course also investigates how the great thinkers, and philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, dealt with philosophical problems in response to the aforementioned issues.