Each of you will
report on several pieces of our assigned reading during the course; you
will show that you understand and critically evaluate the material. Each
of you will also do 1 (long) or 2 (short) presentation/ papers on a topic
of your choice.
The schedule
will be somewhat loose, depending on your ability to understand and critically
evaluate material, and on your interests. Most of the reading will come
from the course texts, although I’ll be adding some required or recommended
reading (mostly via library reserve readings).
Plato: The Apology,
Crito, The Republic, Bks. I-VI
Aristotle: NE:
Bks. 1, 2, 5; Politics, Bks. 1-2
Hobbes: Leviathan,
chaps. 13-18;20-21;30
Locke: Second
Treatise of Government:, Bk 2, all
Mill, On Liberty,
all; Utilitarianism, all
Marx: The Communist
Manifesto
Okin, Justice,
Gender, and the Family, chaps. 1-2;7-8
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