Class Syllabus

Tues. Sept. 4:	INTRODUCTION
Thurs. Sept. 6:	PLATO: The Question of Justice texts: Republic (Hackett) Book 1
Tues. Sept. 11:	PLATO: Justice and Virtue: Model for Psyche & Polis text:Republic (Hackett) Book 2-4
Thurs. Sept. 13:	PLATO: The Possibility of Justice text: Republic (Hackett) Book 5-7
Tues. Sept. 18:	PLATO: Constitutions, Happiness & Reason text: Republic (Hackett) Book 8-10 [Written Response # 1 due]
Thurs. Sept. 20:	ARISTOTLE: Arete, Eudaimonia & Mesotes text: Ethics (Oxford) Book 1-2; Book 3 ch. 1-3; Book 5 ch. 1-7
Tues. Sept. 25:	ARISTOTLE: Moral & Intellectual Virtues text: Ethics (Oxford) Book 6 ch. 5-8, 12-13; Book 8 ch. 9-12; Book 10, ch. 6-9
Thurs. Sept 27:	ARISTOTLE: The Requirements of Justice: Polis and Citizenship text: Politics (Hackett) Book 1; Book 2 chapters 1-5; Book 3 ch. 1-13 [Written response # 2 due]
Tues. Oct. 2:	ARISTOTLE: Model of Nature, Revolution & Stability text: Politics (Hackett) Book 4 chapters 1-12; Book 5 chapters 1-4, 8- 9, 11; Book 6 chapters 2-5; Book 7 chapter 1; Book 8 chapter
Wed. Oct. 3:	Paper # 1 Due by 12:00 - Ham 319Dept. Mailbox - NO Exceptions
Thurs. Oct 4:	BIBLE: Power of God and the Covenant of People text: Hebrew Bible (Oxford) Genesis 1:1-9:17, 11:31-13:18, 15:1-18:33,21:1-23:20; Exodus 1:1-6:13,7:1-11:10, 13:17-14:31, 15:22-20:18, 31:18-34:35
Tues. Oct. 9:	BIBLE: New Testament Redemption Laws of Conscience text: New Testament (Oxford) Matthew; Romans [Written response # 3 due]
Thurs. Oct. 11:	ISLAM texts: Al-Qur’an: Suras 1-4, 12, 17, 26, 39, 56, 63, 68, 112, 114
Tues. Oct. 16:	AUGUSTINE: Justice and Original Sin text: The City of God (Penguin) Book I preface chapters 8-11, Book IV chapters 1-4, Book VIII chapters 1-12 Book XIV, Book XIX [Written response # 4 due]
Thurs. Oct. 18:	AQUINAS: Natural Law text: Politics and Ethics (Norton) On Kingship (p.14-29); Summa I-I Question 2 (p.30),Q.12 (p.32-33), Q.92 (p.37-37),Q.96 (p.38-39); Summa I-II Q 90-97,100-105, 109 (p.44-60); Summa II-II, Q. 66 (p.71-73) AL-GHAZALI: Deliverance from Error (CCweb Reader) [Written response # 5 due]
Tues. Oct. 23:	MIDTERM
Thurs. Oct. 25:	MACHIAVELLI: Civic Republicanism: Virtue, Fortune & Liberty text: Selected Political Writings (Hackett) Discourses (p.81-133, 158-171, 189-194 196-200)
Tues. Oct. 30:	MACHIAVELLI: The Power of the One & the Glory of the State text: Selected Political Writings (Hackett) The Prince (p.1-80)
Thurs. Nov. 1:	LUTHER: Reformation text: The Protestant Reformation (Harper&Row) “The Freedom of a Christian Man,” Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians” [Written response # 6 due]
Tues. Nov. 6:	ELECTION DAY NO CLASS
Thurs. Nov. 8:	DISCOVERIES: The New World text: Bartolome de las Casas, “Thirty Very Juridical Propositions,” “Apologetic History of the Indies;” Juan Gines de Sepulveda, “Democrates Alter” (CCweb Reader) [Written response # 7 due]
Tues. Nov. 13:	THOMAS MORE: Utopia text: Utopia (Penguin)
Wed. Nov.14	Paper # 2 Due by 12:00 - Dept. Mailbox Ham 319 - No exceptions
Thurs. Nov 15:	GALILEO: Science text: “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina” (CCweb Reader)
Tues. Nov. 20:	DESCARTES: Universal Mathematics of God & Soul text: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett) “Meditations on First Philosophy” (p.46-92) [Written response # 8 due]
Thurs. Nov. 22:	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY NO CLASS
Tues. Nov. 27:	HOBBES: The Sovereign State and Civic Order text: Leviathan (Oxford) Part II chapters 17-21, 29, 32, 33, 46, 47 [Written response # 9 due]
Tues. Dec. 4:	LOCKE: The Origins of Society and the Laws of Nature text: Political Writings of John Locke (Mentor) “Second Treatise of Government” Chapters 1-13 [Written response # 10 due]
Thurs. Dec 6:	LOCKE: Just Government: Rights & Toleration text: Political Writings of John Locke (Mentor) “Second Treatise of Government” Chapters 14-19; “A letter concerning Toleration “
Mon. Dec. 10:	Paper # 3 Due by 12:00 - Dept.Mailbox Ham 319 - No exceptions
Dec. 14-21:	FINAL EXAM
Assignment over intersession: Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” on CCWeb Reader