Class Schedule:
Week 1 (September 18): Introduction
Week 2 (September 25): Sun-tze and Lord Shang
The Art of War and The Book of Lord Shang
Week 3 (October 2): Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War (1.21-3, 2.34-46 (Funeral Oration), 2.50-54 (The Plague), 3.36-49 (The Mytilenian Debate), 5.84-116 (The Melian Dialogue).
Week 4 (October 9): Plato
The Republic (Books II-IV), The Laws (Book 1) and
Week 5 (October 16): Aristotle
The Politics (Books 1, 3 and
Week 6 (October 23): Augustine and Aquinas
The City of God (Bks I, IV, VI [sections 17-24], XIX [sections 11-17]), Summa Theologica (II-II, Q 40; II-II, Q 64, articles 6-8)
Week 7 (October 30): No class, midterm assignment due
Week 8 (November 6): Machiavelli
The Prince (chapters 1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 15-19, 21, 24-26), The Discourses (I.2-14)
Week 9 (November 13): Vitoria and Erasmus
De Indis De Jure Belli, Dulce Bellum Inexpertis
Week 10 (November 20): Hugo Grotius
The Law of War and Peace,
Week 11 (November 27): Samuel Pufendorf
On the Duties of Man and Citizen
Week 12 (December 4): Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan (chaps 13-14, 17-18, 21)
Week 13 (December 11): John Locke
Second Treatise (chaps. 1-3, 7-9, 16)
Week 14 (December 18): J.J. Rousseau
Second Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The State of War, Comments on Treatise of the Abbe St. Pierre
Week 15 (December 25): Immanuel Kant
Perpetual Peace, Essay on Theory and Practice
Week 16 (January 1): Holiday. No class.
Week 17 (January 8): V.I. Lenin
Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Week 18 (January 15): final report
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