Writings that hypothetically realize political principles form the basis of classical political science, and more recent works continue to productively enquire about the limits and possibilities of our lives together, while challenging us to question the desirability and justice of the received political orders in which we live. This Honors course places in conversation three core perspectives on human, political order: the theological, the rational and the imaginative. Our course will conclude with the study of two modern perspectives on the consequences of failed executions of political visions in the 20th century, and the forces that compelled the attempts to realize them and which perhaps still do.