Calendar

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