Course Outline and Reading Assignments




INTRODUCTION
PLATO ON JUSTICE
        Plato, from The RepublicTEXT, 6-20
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND ANARCHISM
        Plato, "Crito"TEXT, 46-58
        Henry David Thoreau, from "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"TEXT, 282-285, 301
        Robert Paul Wolff, from In Defense of AnarchismPACKET
SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND DEMOCRACY
        Thomas Hobbes, from LeviathanTEXT, 141-152
        John Locke, from Second Treatise on GovernmentTEXT, 169-184
        Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social ContractTEXT
Book 1: I, VI, VII, VIII
Book 2: III, part IV (p. 225)
        James Madison, "The Federalist No. 10"PACKET
UTILITARIANISM AND LIBERTY
        Jeremy Bentham, "Nonsense on Stilts"PACKET
        Jeremy Bentham, "Utility as the True Foundation"PACKET
        John Stuart Mill, from On LibertyTEXT, 310-316
SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
        Karl Marx, from Critique of Politrical EconomyTEXT, 379-380
        Carl Cohen, "Socialism" from Four SystemsPACKET
AGAINST SOCIALISM
        David Friedman, "Love Is not Enough" from The Machinery of FreedomPACKET
        Ayn Rand, "Man's Rights" from Capitalism: the Unknown IdealPACKET
FASCISM AND COMMUNITARIANISM
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CONSERVATISM
        Michael Oakeshott, "On Being Conservative" from Rationalism in PoliticsPACKET
MODERN LIBERALISM
        John Rawls, from A Theory of JusticePACKET
LIBERTARIANISM
        John Hospers, "The Libertarian Manifesto"PACKET