Political Thought at K-State

Welcome! Here students will find links to syllabi for all the political thought classes taught by Dr. Laurie Johnson, as well as study guides and related course materials. Users of the textbook Political Thought: A Guide to the Classics, who want to find short pieces that highlight contemporary parallels for each chapter, can find them under "Political Thought Links" above.

Honor Today: Blog

"If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment, which keeps us from choosing or doing the worse, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already."

--John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Ch. 21