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PHP 3502: Honors
Hegel's political
philosophy
Prof. Mark
Tunick
http://www.fau.edu/~tunick/courses/hegel/index.html
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Description: We
will
give a close reading to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, with some
additional
readings from Hegel's Phenomenology and other of his works, and
some readings by Kant, Burke, and Aristotle. The emphasis will be on
bringing
Hegel's political theory to bear on our own politics and practices.
Class
will combine lectures with discussion.
Course Requirements:
Students are expected to participate in class discussions, which
requires
doing the reading in a timely fashion. Grades are based on
participation
(10%) and on three papers of 6-7 pages each (30% each). Due dates
are indicated below. Each unexcused absence beyond 2 will result in an
automatic 1/3 letter grade reduction for participation.
Students
agree to adhere to the honor
code, the text of which is at
www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/students/honorcode.html.
While you are encouraged to discuss the course material with each
other,
all assignments must be entirely your own work. You are not permitted
to
copy or borrow from the reading notes, drafts, or outlines of other
students.
If you have any doubts about what constitutes plagiarism or a violation
of the honor code, consult with me beforehand.
Required Reading: Hegel,
Reason in History, tr. Hartman (MacMillan); Hegel, Philosophy
of Right, tr. Nisbet (Cambridge); Kant, Groundwork of the
Metaphysic
of Morals, tr. Ellington (Hackett). Books should be at the campus
bookstore
and on reserve. Material indicated by a * will be handed out.
Office Hours: M 5-6, T 1-5, W 1-2, in HC 148.
For additional times, phone 6-8650 or email me at tunick@fau.edu
Course
Outline
Each reading assignment
should be completed prior to the class under which it is listed.
1/7. Introduction (1):
Why
Hegel?
1/12. Introduction (2):
What
is political theory?
Rdg: Berlin, Karl Marx: ch.3 *
1/14. Hegel's
philosophy
of
history (1)
Rdg:
Hegel,
Reason in History, pp. 3-34
1/19. Martin Luther
King Jr. Day: No Class
1/21. Hegel's
philosophy
of
history (continued)
Rdg: Hegel, Reason in History, pp. 34-67
1/26. Hegel's life and
works
Rdg: Hegel, Reason in History,
pp. 68-95; Stephen Jay Gould, essay from Panda's Thumb*
1/28. PR Preface (1):
Hegel's
method; immanent criticism
Rdg: Philosophy of Right (PR): Preface
2/2. PR Preface (2):
"the
actual
is the rational"
Rdg: PR Preface (reread); PR Pars. 1-4
2/4. Hegel's System; PR
Introduction
(1): Hegel's conception of freedom.
Rdg:
PR
Pars.
5-7; Solomon,
In The Spirit of Hegel, glossary *
; Edmund Burke: excerpt
from Reflections on the Revolution
in France *
Paper
One Due
2/9. Hegel's Conception
of
Freedom, continued.
Rdg: PR Pars. 8-24
2/11. PR Introduction
(2):
Hegel's criticism of subjective justifications; What Hegel means by
"right";
the structure of PR.
Rdg: PR Pars. 25-28
2/16. The Structure of
PR
Rdg: PR Pars. 29-40
2/18. Abstract Right
overview;
Hegel on property
Rdg: PR Pars. 41-64
Study questions on 'Abstract Right'
2/23. Hegel on Property
and
Contract
Rdg:
PR Pars. 65-81 (continued)
2/25. Hegel's theory of
crime
and punishment (1)
Rdg: PR Pars. 82-95
3/1. Hegel's theory of
crime
and punishment (2)
Rdg:
PR Pars. 96-101
3/3. Hegel's
criticism
of Abstract Right and introduction to Moralitaet
Rdg:
PR Pars. 102-104
3/8, 3/10: Spring
Break. No Class
3/15. Hegel on purpose
and
responsibility
Rdg: PR 105-118
Paper Two due
3/17. Hegel's theory of
criminal
accountability
Rdg: Hegel PR Pars. 119-141
3/22. Hegel's opponent:
Kantian
moral theory
Rdg:
Kant,
Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals
3/24. Hegel's criticism
of
Kantian morality and his idea of ethical substance
Rdg: PR Pars. 142-157; excerpts from Aristotle*
3/29. Hegel and
the
"liberal-communitarian"
debate; the "founder"
Rdg:
Hegel,
Phenomenology of Spirit , Pars. 347-58, 455, 474-75 *
3/31. Hegel's theory of
Family
and Marriage
Rdg: PR Pars. 158-181
4/5. Hegel's theory of
civil
society
Rdg:
PR Pars. 182-208
4/7. Hegel's theory of
civil
society (2): Hegel on poverty and political crime; the transition to
the
state
Rdg: PR Pars. 209-256
4/12. Hegel 's theory
of
the
state (1): Hegel's theory of punishment
Rdg:
PR Pars. 257-286
4/14. Hegel's theory of
the
state (2): Hegel's justification of hereditary monarchy
Rdg:
PR Pars. 287-320
Film: Kurosawa's Ikiru, HC 114, 7-10pm
4/19. Hegel's theory of
international
relations
Rdg:
PR Pars. 321-360
Paper Three due
Selected
Bibliography
(Works marked by a * are on reserve in the library)
Other works by Hegel
Philosophy of Mind,
tr.
Wallace and Miller: Pars. 483-577
Phenomenology of Spirit,
tr. A.V. Miller: Preface, Introduction, Sections IV, V.A.c., V.B., and
VI.
Logic, tr. Wallace
(Part 3 of the Encyclopaedia): Par.6.
Introduction in
Lectures
on the History of Philosophy, vol.1, tr.Haldane (Kegan Paul,
1892)(pp.1-116)
Philosophy of History, tr.
Sibree *
Natural Law, tr.
T.M.Knox (U.Penn, 1975) (1802-3)
Political Writings,
especially "The German Constitution" and
"The English Reform Bill"*
Hegel: The Letters,
ed. and tr. Butler and Seiler
German editions
of
Hegel's
Rechtsphilosophie:
Vorlesungen ueber
Naturrecht
und Staatswissenschaft, ed. C. Becker, et.al. (Hamburg:Felix
Meiner,
1983)
Philosophie des Rechts:
Die Vorlesung von 1819/20, ed. Dieter Henrich (Frankfurt:Suhrkamp,
1983)
Vorlesungen ueber
Rechtsphilosophie
(1818-1831), ed. Karl-Heinz Ilting (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich
Fromman, 1973)
Secondary Works
on
Hegel
Avineri, Shlomo Hegel's
Theory
of the Modern State (Cambridge, 1972)
Brod, Harry, Hegel's
Philosophy of Politics (Westview, 1992)
D'Hondt, Jacques, Hegel
in His Time (Broadview Press, 1988)
Ilting, Karl-Heinz, "Zur
Genese der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie," in Philosophische Rundschau,
vol. 3 (1983)
Ilting, "The structure of
Hegel's Philosophy of Right," in Pelczynski, ed. Hegel's Political
Philosophy
(Cambridge, 1971)
Knowles, Dudley, Hegel
and the Philosophy of Right (Routledge, 2002)
Pelczynski, Z.A., ed. The
State and Civil Society (Cambridge, 1984)
Reyburn, Hugh, The
Ethical
Theory of Hegel (Oxford, 1921)
Ritter, Joachim, Hegel
and the French Revolution (MIT, 1982)
Shklar, Judith, "Hegel's
Phenomenology: an elegy for Hellas," in Pelczynski, ed., Hegel's
Political
Philosophy
Smith, Steven, Hegel's
Critique of Liberalism (Chicago, 1989)
Solomon, Robert, In
The
Spirit of Hegel (Oxford, 1983)
Tunick, Mark, 'Hegel's
Justification of Hereditary Monarchy', History of Political Thought
12:3 (Autumn 1991)*
Tunick, Hegel's
Political Philosophy (Princeton, 1992)*
Tunick, 'Hegel's
Nonfoundationalism:
A Phenomenological Account of the Structure of Philosophy of Right'.
History of Philosophy Quarterly 11:317-338 (1994).
Tunick, 'Are
there natural rights?--Hegel's break with Kant',
in Hegel on the Modern World, ed. Ardis B. Collins. Albany, New
York: State University of New York Press (1994).
Tunick, 'Hegel
on Justified Disobedience'.
Political Theory 26:514-535 (August 1998). Available online
through jstor.
Tunick, "Hegel against
Fukuyama's
Hegel," Clio 22:383-389
Walsh, W.H., Hegelian
Ethics
(St. Martin's Press, 1969)
Wiedmann, Franz, Hegel
(Pegasus,
1968): illustrated biography
Wood, Allen, Hegel's
Ethical
Thought (Cambridge, 1991)
Other works
Berlin, Isaiah, "Two
Concepts
of Liberty," in Four Essays on Liberty
Hamerow, Theodore, Restoration,
Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871
(Princeton, 1958)
Marx, Karl, Contribution
to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Introduction);
German
Ideology; Economic
and Philosophic Manuscripts
Scanlon, Thomas, "Promises
and Practices," in Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol.19,
no.3(Summer,
1990)
Toews, John, Hegelianism
(Cambridge, 1980)
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Mark
Tunick
Honors
College, FAU
updated 2/21/04