1: Preliminary meeting (01/19)
2:
Thomas More, Christian humanism, Catholicism and Utopia.
01/26
(Reading: More, Utopia)
3:
Machiavelli, Machiavellism and reason of state
02/02
(Reading: Machiavelli, The Prince)
4:
Bodin, Sovereignty, and Absolutism
02/09
(Reading: Six Books of the Commonwealth
5:
Hobbes, science, politics, and the state of nature
02/16
(Reading: Leviathan
part 1.)
6:
Hobbes and the nature of the state
03/02
(Reading: Leviathan part 2.)
DUE DATE FOR FIRST PAPER: 03/02
7.
Democracy and Revolution: the English Levellers
03/09
(Reading: The English Levellers)
8:
The law of nature, politics and Pufendorf
03/16
(Reading: On the duty of man and citizen)
9: Theories of property, liberalism,
gender and John Locke
03/23
(Reading:
Two treatises of government first treatise, and ch. 1-5 of
second treatise)
SPRING BREAK: 03/27-04/04
10:
Limited government, resistance and Locke
04/06
(Reading: the rest of Locke's Two treatises)
11:
Towards atheism and materialism? Philosophy, religion, and Hobbes
04/13
(Reading: Leviathan parts 3 and 4.)
12:
Church-state relations and the rise of toleration
04/20
(Reading: Locke, A letter concerning toleration)
13:
The Enlightenment and democracy:
the American and
French Revolutions
04/27
(Reading: Thomas Paine,
Common Sense and The Rights of Man)
14: Final Meeting: what changed between
More and Paine?
05/04
DUE DATE FOR SECOND PAPER: 05/04