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Week One
Introduction
WEBER: Politics as a Vocation.
Week Two
PLATO: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo (114d-118a); Republic
Week Three
ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics. Politics (Bk. I; Bk. II, 1-5, 9; Bk. III; Bk. IV, 1-15, 16; Bk. Vii, 1-3, 13)
Week Four
AQUINAS: On Kingship (I, 1); Summa Theologica (I-II, Q. 90. 1-4, Q. 91. 1-4, Q. 94. 1-6; II-II, Q. 40. 1, Q. 42. 2, Q. 66. 1-2).
Week Five
MACHIAVELLI: Letter to Francesco Vettori; The Prince; Discourses (Bk. I. 1-2; Bk. II, 1-2, 20, 29; Bk. III, 1, 9).
Week Six
HOBBES: Leviathan (Dedicatory, Introduction, Pt. 1-2, Review and Conclusion).
Week Seven
LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government.
Week Eight
HUME: Treatise of Human Nature (Bk. II, Pt. III, Sec. iii; Bk. III, Pt. I, Sec i-ii; Pt. II, Sec. i-ii).
Week Nine
KANT: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.
Week Ten
HEGEL, Philosophy of Right, Preface and 1-4
Week 11
MILL: On Liberty. Utilitarianism. The Subjection of Women.
Week12
MARX: Alienated Labor (from the 1844 Manuscripts). On the Jewish Question. Communist Manifesto; Critique of the Gotha Program.
Week Thirteen
NIETZSCHE: On the Genealogy of Morality.
Week Fourteen
RAWLS, A Theory of Justice, chs 1-3 |