Political Ideas, Fall Semester, 2006
Handouts:
Schedule of Topics and Readings
Introduction sheet (Please fill this out if you haven't already done so.)
Discussion projects: Dinner with the King (8/29)
What is government for? (9/5)
Castaways (9/12)
Politics and Human Nature (9/19)
Socialism 1 (10/2)
Socialism 2 (10/10) (To be revised)
Engels vs. Anarchism (10/17)
Extra Selections from Locke's 2nd Treatise on Government
Jonathan Bennett's modernization of Locke (and others)
Burke on the need for an aristocracy (Read for 9/19)
Hayek on the impossibility of central planning (Read for 10/10)
Wright on a new model of socialism (read for 10/10)
A page of links to various sources of political news and commentary
Links to material on socialism
Links to material on globalization
Position Paper Assignment (Due November 28)
Second Exam (Due December 5)