PHIL 332A: READING ASSIGNMENTS
Reading
Assignment: Thomas Hobbes (TEXT: Intro., pp. 78-80; Leviathan: Chapter
6, pp. 96-101, and Chapters 13-17, pp. 118-137).
Reading
Assignment: Hobbes (TEXT:
Leviathan: Chaps. 18-21, pp. 138-157, Chap. 26, pp. 161-171, and
Chaps. 29-30, pp. 183-196).
Reading
Assignment: (1) Baruch Spinoza, (TEXT: Intro., pp. 197-200; Theologico-Political
Treatise: Chaps. 16 and 20, pp. 200-212).
(2) John Locke (TEXT: Intro., pp. 213-217; Second Treatise of Government:
Chaps. 2-7, pp. 218-245).
Week 4-(Apr. 17-21):
Finish Locke (Spinoza and Locke Discussion on Friday, Apr. 21).
Reading Assignment: John Locke
(TEXT: Second Treatise of Government: Chaps. 8-11, pp. 245-260, Chap. 15,
pp. 268-269, and Chap. 19, pp. 280-290).
Week 5 (Apr. 24-28):
Begin Rousseau
MIDTERM EXAM IN CLASS ON
FRIDAY, MAY 5.
Reading Assignment: (1) Adam
Smith (TEXT: Intro., pp.518-521; The
Wealth of Nations, Book 1, Chaps. 1-2, 4-6, and Book IV, Chap. 2,
pp. 533-547.
(2) Immanuel Kant (TEXT:
Intro., pp. 553-556, "On the Old Saw: That May Be Right in Theory
but It Won't Work in Practice", pp. 557-565; "On the Relation of
Theory to Practice in International Law", pp. 566-569; Perpetual Peace,
pp. 571-583 [omit second supplement and both appendices]).
(3) Optional
Reading Assignment: (1) Edmund Burke (TEXT: Intro., pp. 665-667; Reflections on the
Revolution in
(2)
Alexis de Tocqueville (TEXT: Intro., pp.
709-712; Democracy in America: Chaps. 6-7, pp. 713-732).
Reading Assignment: (1) Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (TEXT: Intro., pp. 733-736; Philosophy of Right,
paras. 161-169, pp. 757-760, paras. 257-260, pp.
787-790, and paras. 341-360, pp. 828-832).
(2) Karl Marx (TEXT:
Intro., pp. 836-841; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, pp.
841-849; The German Ideology, pp. 857-867; Manifesto of the Communist
Party, pp. 867-889; Value, Price, and Profit, pp. 893-903; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, sections II-III,
pp. 911-927).
Reading
Assignment: No assigned reading.