Oct 25 Shout Across Time chapter 5.  Lecture on England in the 17th century

Oct 27 Continued

Oct 29 Thomas Hobbes: "The State of Nature".  From Leviathan (B/D 71-73)

The bible of the anti-democrats--but a book equally despised by absolutists and by advocates of democracy.  We will discuss why. (Electronic Commonplace books due--part 2)

Nov 1 John Locke: "Second Treatise of Civil Government" (B/D 80-89)  What are Locke's principal arguments in opposition to absolutism?

Nov 3 John Locke:  A Letter Concerning Toleration (B/D p. 77-80)  What are Locke's principal arguments in favor of freedom of religion?

Nov 5 Adam Smith: "Private Profit, Public Good".  From The Wealth of Nations

(B/D p. 102ff)

Nov 8 The Scientific Revolution

Nov 10 Shout Across Time chapter 6; Emmanuel Kant: "Freedom and Enlightenment" (B/D p. 102 ff)

Nov 12 Roger Williams "Letter to the Town of Providence" (supplemental reading)

Nov 15 Shout Across Time chapter 7; Thomas Jefferson:  The Declaration of Independence (B/D pp 99 ff) Were the Americans fighting for their rights as Englishmen or as human beings?  Is there a difference?

Nov 17, 19 The Constitution of the United States (supplemental reading) How were the specific grievances described by Jefferson in the Declaration of  Independence addressed in the Constitution?  Why was it necessary to append a Bill of Rights?  How are women and slaves dealt with?  Account for the success of the document (it's been around for over 200 years). 

Nov 22 French National Assembly: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen" (B/D pp 99 ff).  How did the French Declaration differ from the American, and how was it beholden to it for some basic ideas?  What do you see in it absent from the American Declaration?

Nov 22 History of African-Americans; Martin Luther King: "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" (B/D pp 332 ff) (Term Papers Due)

Nov 24, 26 Thanksgiving break

Nov 29 (Term Papers Due) SarahGrimke "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes" (B/D (pp377-384) and "The Seneca Falls Declaration (B/D pp385-388)

Dec 1  John Stuart Mill "Liberty and Individuality" (B/D pp 107-113)

Dec 3 (Electronic Commonplace books due)  Shout Across Time chapter 9; Benito Mussoloni's Decalogue (supplemental reading).

Dec 6 Adolf Hitler "Nation and Race" (B/D pp 339-355)

Dec 8 Alexis de Tocqueville: "Democracy and Equality" From Democracy in America (B/D pp 41 ff)

Dec 10 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: "The Communist Manifesto (B/D pp 192 ff); Shout Across Time chapter 10

Dec 13 TBA