Required Texts
Plato. Four Texts on Socrates. Translated by T. G. West, and G. S. West. London, UK: Cornell University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780801485749.
Aristotle. Politics. Edited by Stephen Iverson. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1988. (Download a version from the Internet Classics Archive.) Machiavelli. The Portable Machiavelli. Edited by Peter Bondanella, and Mark Musa. New York, NY: Penguin, 1979. ISBN: 9780140150926.
Hobbes. Leviathan. Edited by Richard Tuck. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521560993. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg.)
Locke. Second Treatise of Government. Edited by C. B. Macpherson. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 1980. ISBN: 9780915144938. (Download a version from Project Gutenberg.)
Rousseau. Basic Political Writings. Edited by Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub. Co., 1987. ISBN: 9780872200470.
Marx. The Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert Tucker. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1978. ISBN: 9780393056846.
Tocqueville. Democracy in America. Edited by J. P. Mayer. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 1988. ISBN: 9780060915223. (Download versions from Project Gutenberg: Volume 1 and Volume 2.)
Reading Assignments
| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Plato, Apology | |
| 3 | Plato, Crito | |
| 4 | Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics | Aristotle. Nichomachean Ethics. Edited by Iverson. Book 10. Chapter 9. ———. Politics. Book 1 (entire). ———. Politics. Book 2. Chapters 1-5. |
| 5 | Aristotle, Politics | Aristotle. Politics. Book 3 (entire). ———. Politics. Book 4. Chapters 1-13. |
| 6 | Aristotle, Politics (cont.) | Aristotle. Politics. Book 5. Chapters 1-5 and 8. ———. Politics. Book 6. Chapters 1-5. ———. Politics. Book 7 (entire). |
| 7 | Machiavelli, The Prince | Machiavelli. The Prince. Dedication, and chapters 1-14. |
| 8 | Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy | Machiavelli. The Prince. Chapters 15-26. ———. Discourses on Livy. Book 1. Introduction and chapters 1-5. |
| 9 | Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy (cont.) | Machiavelli. Discourses on Livy. Book 1. Chapters 6-12, 16-18, 55 and 58. ———. Discourses on Livy. Book 2. Introduction, and chapters 1-2. ———. Discourses on Livy. Book 3. Chapters 1 and 40-41. |
| 10 | Hobbes, Leviathan | Hobbes. Leviathan. Introduction, and chapters 6, 10-11 and 13. |
| 11 | Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) | Hobbes. Leviathan. Chapters 14-19. |
| 12 | Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) | Hobbes. Leviathan. Chapters 21, 24 and 28-30. |
| 13 | Locke, Second Treatise | Locke. Second Treatise of Government. Chapters 1-5. |
| 14 | Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) | Locke. Second Treatise of Government. Chapters 7-9. |
| 15 | Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) | Locke. Second Treatise of Government. Chapters 10-14, and 19 (pp. 211-230 and 240-243). |
| 16 | Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality | Rousseau. Discourse on Inequality. Part 1. |
| 17 | Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (cont.) | Rousseau. Discourse on Inequality. Part 2. |
| 18 | Rousseau, Social Contract | Rousseau. Social Contract. Book 1 (all). ———. Social Contract. Book 2. Chapters 1-4, 6-9. |
| 19 | Rousseau, Social Contract (cont.) | Rousseau. Social Contract. Book 3. Chapters 1-7, 9-10. ———. Social Contract. Book 4. Chapters 1-2, 7-9. |
| 20 | Marx, "On the Jewish Question," and "1844 Manuscripts" | Marx. "On the Jewish Question." In Marx-Engels Reader. pp. 26-52. ———. "1844 Manuscripts." In Marx-Engels Reader. pp. 70-105. ———. "Communist Manifesto." In Marx-Engels Reader. pp. 472-91. |
| 21 | Marx, Communist Manifesto and Selections from Capital | Marx. "Selections from Capital." In Marx-Engels Reader. pp. 302-8, 319-29, 392-403 and 407-15. |
| 22 | Tocqueville, Democracy in America | Tocqueville. Democracy in America. Vol. 1. Introduction, Part 1, chapters 2-4, chapter 5 (pp. 61-70 and 87-98), Part 2, chapter 4, chapter 5 (pp. 196-201 and 220-230), chapters 6-9, chapter 10 (pp. 316-20 and 340-63), Conclusion. |
| 23-24 | Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cont.) | Tocqueville. Democracy in America. Vol. 2. Part 1, chapters 1-2, Part 2 chapters 1-8, Part 3, chapters 1, 5, and 7-9, Part 4, chapters 1-3, and 6-8. |
| 25 | Concluding Lecture |