| POT 2022 Honors History of Political Thought I |
Fall
2004
|
| Prof. Mark Tunick | Revised due to Hurricane Frances. Pre-Frances syllabus is online. |
Requirements: Attendance and participation in class discussions (10%); 3 papers of 6-7 pages in length (30% each); a revision of the first paper will be required and in writing the revision students must use the "track changes" function of their word processor. Total writing will be at least 6000 words/24 pages, satisfying the Gordon Rule requirement. Special attention will be given to writing, and throughout the course there will be special sections devoted to the process of writing and revising. Excessive absences will result in a reduced grade for the course.
Office Hours: T 11-2, W 11-12:30, R 12:30-2, in HC 148. Other times can be arranged by phoning 6-8650, or emailing me at tunick@fau.edu.
Reading:
The
following books have been ordered: Plato, The Trial and Death of
Socrates,
tr. Grube; Plato,
Republic, tr. Grube; Aristotle,
Politics,
tr. Reeve; Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Irwin; Machiavelli,
The
Prince, ed. Donno; Machiavelli,
Mandragola, tr. Flaumenhaft;
More, Utopia, tr. Miller; Hobbes, Leviathan, ed.
Oakeshott;
Locke,
Second Treatise, ed. MacPherson. A few additional readings
will be handed out. A helpful writing supplement you are encouraged to
consult is Muriel Harris, The
Writer's FAQs, available at the bookstore.
You must be prepared to
discuss each reading on the date under which that reading is listed.
You should take notes of the readings, indicating page numbers of
important passages: an important consideration in evaluating your
papers will be the extent to which you cite evidence from the texts.
Honor Code:
Students
agree to adhere to the honor code, available online at http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/students/honorcode.html
Papers are to be your own work, and the source of ideas not your own
must be acknowledged. If you are uncertain what constitutes a violation
of the honor code, consult with the instructor beforehand.
2. The Greeks
(8/26)
Reading:
Apology
and Crito (in Trial and Death of Socrates)
On
the
web:
A scientific
explanation of the Delphic oracle's inspiration (NYT article), online;
Apology online; Crito online; Web
resources on the ancient Greeks (including biographies and texts of
Plato, and Xenophon's Memorabilia)
Bibliography:
Hannah Arendt, The
Human
Condition
; E.R. Dodds, The
Greeks and
the Irrational
; M.I. Finley,
Democracy,
Ancient and Modern
; E. Havelock,
Preface to
Plato
; W. Jaeger,
Paideia
; H.D.F.
Kitto, The
Greeks
; Martha Nussbaum,
The
Fragility
of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
; Bruno Snell, The
Discovery
of the Mind
; Thucydides,
History
of the
Peloponnesian War
3. Socrates
(8/31)
Reading:
Republic
Books 1-2
Discussion
questions on Republic
Bibliography:
Brickhouse and
Smith,
Socrates
on Trial ; H. Pitkin, Wittgenstein and Justice ch. 8; R. Kraut,
Socrates
and the
State; G. Santas, Socrates
; G. Vlastos,
Socrates,
Ironist
and Moral Philosopher
; G. Vlastos,
'Socrates'
Contribution
to the Greek Sense of Justice', Archaiognosia 1:301-24 (1980)
; G. Vlastos,
'Socrates'
Disavowal
of Knowledge', Philosophical Quarterly 35:1-31 (1985), available online
at jstor.
9/2-9/10:
Hurricane Frances
4. Plato (9/14)
Reading:
Republic
Books 3-4
Bibliography:
Sir E. Barker,
Greek
Political
Theory
; P. Friedlander,
Plato: An
Introduction
; G.M.A. Grube,
Plato's
Thought
; Karl Popper, The
Open
Society
and its Enemies, chapters 1-8
; Leo Strauss, The
City and
Man
; A.E.
Taylor, Plato:
The
Man and his Work
; G. Vlastos,
Plato's
Universe
; Sheldon Wolin,
Politics
and Vision, chapter 2; Shorris, "Ignoble Liars: Influence of Leo
Strauss on neoconservatism," Harper's 308:65-71 (June 2004), available
online (search electronic
journals)
5. Plato's Republic
(9/16)
Reading:
Republic
Books 5-7
6. Plato's Republic
(9/21)
Reading:
Republic
Books 8-10
7. Plato's Republic (9/23)
8. Aristotle
(9/28)
Reading:
Nicomachean
Ethics Book 1:1-5, 7-10; Book 2: 1-2, 4, 6, 9; Book 3: 1-2, 5,
10-11;
Book 4:8
On
the
Web:
Aristotle's
Politics (complete)
; Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics (complete)
; Aristotle's
The Athenian Constitution
Bibliography:
J.L. Ackrill,
Aristotle
the Philosopher ; E. Barker, The
Politics
of Aristotle, Introduction
; M.G. Grene,
Portrait of
Aristotle
; W.C.K. Guthrie,
Aristotle:
An Encounter
; W.L. Newman, The
Politics
of Aristotle, 4 vols.
; A.O. Rorty,
Essays
on
Aristotle's
Ethics
; W.D. Ross,
Aristotle
; A. MacIntyre,
After
Virtue
9. Aristotle
(9/30)
Reading:
Nicomachean
Ethics (cont.) Book 6: 3-8, 12-13; Book 8: 1-4, 8 (Par. 3 only);
Book
9: 5-6, 10-12; Book 10: 6-9
10. Aristotle
(10/5)
Reading:
Politics
Book 1: 1-9, 13; Book 2: 1-5, 7-8; Book 3: 1, 4-13, 18
11. Aristotle
(10/7)
Reading:
Politics
(cont.) Book 4: 1-2, 4, 11; Book 5: 1-4, 8-9, 11; Book 6: 2-4; Book 7:
1-4, 8-9, 13-14, 16
Paper One Due by 5 pm Monday, October 11th
in the box outside my office (HC 148)
12.
Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Thought (10/12)
Reading: Bible: Genesis 1-9, 11-13, 15-19, 21-22; Exodus
1-7, 11-12, 18-25, 32-34; Matthew
1-7, 10, 13, 16, 22-28;
Romans 13; Job 1-13,
36-42
Recommended: Ebenstein, Introduction to Political Thinkers,
ch. 3 (St. Augustine) and ch. 4 (St. Thomas Aquinas): a copy is on
reserve in the library
On
the
web:
Bible:
Revised standard version
; Bible:
King James version; Augustine's
Confessions: recommended selections are Book I: chapters 6, 8-9; Bk
II (all); Bk III: 1-4, 7-12; Bk V: 3-7; Bk VI: 6-16; Bk VII: 6; Bk
VIII:
5-12; Web
resources on Augustine
; Excerpts
from City of God; St. Thomas Aquinas:
Stanford Encyclopedia
entry
13. Sir Thomas More:
Utopian
thought and the Nature of Political Theory (10/14)
Reading:
More, Utopia
Film:
A
Man for All Seasons
On the
web:
Thomas
More Website; and another
More website
Bibliography:
Stephen Greenblatt,
Renaissance
Self-Fashioning From More to Shakespeare
; J.H. Hexter,
More's
Utopia
; A. Fox, Thomas
More:
History
and Providence
14. Machiavelli and
the Renaissance
(10/19)
Reading:
Machiavelli, The Prince
On
the
web:
Jacob
Burckhardt, Civilization of the Renaissance In Italy (1878)
; The
Borgias
; Web
exhibit on the Renaissance
Bibliography:
H. Butterfield, The
Statecraft
of Machiavelli
; A. H. Gilbert,
Machiavelli's
Prince and its Forerunners
; M.P. Gilmore,
The
World
of Humanism
; Hanna Pitkin,
Fortune is
a Woman
; J.A. G. Pocock,
The
Machiavellian
Moment
; R. Ridolfi, Life
of
Niccolo
Machiavelli
; Sheldon Wolin,
Politics
and Vision, chapter 7
15. Machiavelli
(10/21)
Reading:
Machiavelli, Discourses, Bk 1: Pref, chs 1-2, 9, 11-12, 16-18,
44;
Bk 2: Pref, chs 1-2, 29; Bk 3: chs 1, 9
Also
read Discourses Bk I, ch. 10 and ch. 58 in the Donno edition of The
Prince
On
the
web: Discourses
(complete). Recommended: 1:4-8, 14, 25-27, 34, 39, 47-49, 55, 57-58; 2:
3-4, 13; 3:2-3, 30, 43, 49
Revision of Paper
One due
16. Machiavelli
(10/26)
Reading:
Machiavelli, Mandragola
On
the web: The rape of Lucretia in Livy's History of Rome,
1.57-60:
available at Perseus Digital
Library;
and St. Augustine's chapter on Lucretia in City of God, I:19,
available
online.
17. Thomas Hobbes
(10/28)
Reading:
Hobbes, Leviathan, Dedicatory, Introduction Part One (chs 1-12)
Leviathan
Study Questions
Bibliography:
D.P. Gauthier, The
Logic
of Leviathan
; M.M. Goldsmith,
Hobbes'
Science of Politics
; Jean Hampton,
Hobbes and
the Social Contract Tradition
; C.B. Macpherson,
The
Theory
of Possessive Individualism, Hobbes to Locke
; F.S. McNeilly,
The
Anatomy
of Leviathan
; Michael
Oakeshott,
Hobbes
on Civil Association
; Leo Strauss, The
Political
Philosophy of Hobbes
; Richard Tuck,
Hobbes
; Howard
Warrender,
The
Political
Philosophy of Hobbes: His Theory of Obligation
; Sheldon Wolin,
Politics
and Vision, chapter 8
18. Thomas Hobbes
(11/2)
Reading:
Hobbes, Leviathan, Part One (chs 13-16); Part Two (chs 17-21)
Paper Two Due
19. Thomas Hobbes
(11/4)
Reading:
Hobbes, Leviathan, Part Two (chs 22-31)
20. Thomas Hobbes (11/9)
Reading:
Hobbes, Leviathan, Review and Conclusion
No Class Nov. 11: Veteran's Day
21. The English
Revolution
(11/16)
Reading:
Putney
Debates; 'An
Agreement of the People'
(online)
On
the
web:
Narrative
History of England
Bibliography:
C. Hill, The
Century of
Revolution, 1603-1714
; C. Hill, The
World
Turned
Upside Down
; C.B. Macpherson,
The
Theory
of Possessive Individualism
; M. Walzer, The
Revolution
of the Saints
22. John Locke
(11/18)
Reading:
Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Preface, chapters 1-5
On
the
web:
Locke's Two Treatises ;
The
John Locke Foundation (research institute claiming allegiance to
Locke's
political theory of limited government); Locke's Letter
Concerning Toleration / another
version ;
Locke's works online
Bibliography:
R. Ashcraft,
'Revolutionary
Politics and Locke's Two Treatises', in Political Theory (Nov.
1980), available online at jstor (booklength
version on reserve); M.W. Cranston, John
Locke,
A Biography
; John Dunn, Locke
; J. Dunn,
Political
Thought
of John Locke
; P. Laslett, ed.
Locke's
Two Treatises, Introduction
; C. B.
Macpherson,
The
Theory
of Possessive Individualism ; James Farr, “‘So
vile and
miserable an estate’: The problem of slavery in Locke’s Political
Thought,” Political Theory
14:263-89 (May, 1986), available online at jstor ; J. Tully, An
Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts (on reserve); W. von Leyden,
Hobbes and
Locke
23. John Locke
(11/23)
Reading:
Locke, Second Treatise, chapters 6-15
No Class Nov. 25: Thanksgiving
24. John Locke
(11/30)
Reading:
Locke, Second Treatise, chapters 16-19
25. John
Locke (12/2)
Paper Three Due
Additional notes:
Policy on Accommodations: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), students who require reasonable accommodations due to a disability to properly execute coursework must register with the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) -- SR 110 (561-799-8010) – and follow all OSD procedures.
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Mark
Tunick
Honors
College,
FAU
updated 10/28/04