Philosophy

If you are interested in philosophy then maybe this subject would be perfect for you! Take a look at some examples below:

Example philosophy dissertation topic 1:

Greek law and order: How the great Grecian thinkers shaped modern law.

Greek philosophers, such as Sophocles, contemplated the origin of law, espousing the existence of ‘law that in the highest heaven had their birth’. Such law was innate and not created by man but by the divine power of reason. As Cicero noted, such ‘natural law’ was ‘the law which was never written… but which was drawn from Nature herself, in which we have never been instructed… but with which we are all imbued’. This dissertation looks at how the concepts of a higher law have created and moulded the modern common law legal system. While much of the British legal system is derived from Roman law did the Grecian philosophers mould the concept of law in any way?

Suggested initial topic reading:

• Luban, D, ‘Some Greek Trials: Order and Justice in Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus and Plato’ [1987] 54 Tenn L Rev 279
• Hamburger, M, Morals and Law: The Growth of Aristotle’s Legal Theory (Biblo and Tannen, 1965)
• Witte, J, ‘From Homer to Hegel: Ideas of Law and Culture in the West’ [1991] 89 MLR 1618