1: Preliminary meeting (01/24)
2:
Thomas More, Christian humanism, Catholicism and Utopia.
01/31
(Reading: More, Utopia)
3:
Machiavelli, Machiavellism and reason of state
02/07
(Reading: Machiavelli, The Prince)
4:
Bodin, Sovereignty, and Absolutism
02/14
(Reading: Six Books of the Commonwealth
5:
Hobbes, science, politics, and the state of nature
02/21
(Reading: Leviathan
part 1.)
6:
Hobbes and the nature of the state
02/28
(Reading: Leviathan part 2.)
7. Sir Robert Filmer: Patriarchalism and the Divine Right of Kings
03/06
(Reading: Patriarcha)
DUE DATE FOR FIRST PAPER: 03/06
8.
Democracy and Revolution: the English Levellers
03/13
(Reading: The English Levellers)
9:
The law of nature, politics and Pufendorf
03/20
(Reading: On the duty of man and citizen)
10: Theories of property, liberalism,
gender and John Locke
03/27
(Reading:
Two treatises of government first treatise, and ch. 1-5 of
second treatise)
SPRING BREAK: 03/31-04/08
11:
Limited government, resistance and Locke
04/10
(Reading: the rest of Locke's Two treatises)
12:
Towards atheism and materialism? Philosophy, religion, and Hobbes
04/17
(Reading: Leviathan parts 3 and 4.)
13:
Church-state relations and the rise of toleration
04/24
(Reading: Locke, A letter concerning toleration)
14:
The Enlightenment and democracy:
the American and
French Revolutions
05/01
(Reading: Thomas Paine,
Common Sense and The Rights of Man)
15: Final Meeting: what changed between
More and Paine?
05/08
DUE DATE FOR SECOND PAPER: 05/08