Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS
1 Introduction
2 Plato, Apology (PDF)
3 Plato, Crito (PDF)
4 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (PDF)
5 Aristotle, Politics (PDF)
6 Aristotle, Politics (cont.) (PDF)
7 Machiavelli, The Prince (PDF)
8 Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy (PDF)
9 Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy (cont.) (PDF)
10 Hobbes, Leviathan (PDF)
11 Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) (PDF)
12 Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) (PDF)
13 Locke, Second Treatise (PDF)
14 Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) (PDF)
15 Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) (PDF)
16 Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (PDF)
17 Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (cont.) (PDF)
18 Rousseau, Social Contract (PDF)
19 Rousseau, Social Contract (cont.) (PDF)
20 Marx, "On the Jewish Question," and "1844 Manuscripts" (PDF)
21 Marx, Communist Manifesto and Selections from Capital (PDF)
22 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (PDF)
23 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cont.) (PDF)
24 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cont.)
25 Concluding Lecture