History of Political Thought
Poli 205, Spring 2010
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Course Description: This course explores the ways in which ideas central to our political life - concepts like justice, equality, liberty and democracy - have been discussed over the past 3000 years, and the ways in which this ongoing debate informs our contemporary political practices and beliefs.

Useful Links  Ancient Thought Aristotle's Politics Euripides' The Suppliants Plato's Republic Thucydides' Pelopennesian War Early Modern Hobbes' Leviathan Machiavelli's The Prince Machiavelli's Discourses Saint Thomas More's Utopia 17th & 18th Century John Adams' Thoughts on Government Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France Franklin's Observations on Population Increase Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Jefferson's Notes on Virginia Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration Locke's Second Treatise National Assembly of France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens Thomas Paine's Commonsense Pope's Essay on Man Rousseau's Discourse on Inquality Rousseau's Social Contract Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations de Tocqueville's Democracy in America Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman 19th Century Mill's On Liberty Mill's "Utilitarianism" Mill's "On Subjection of Women" Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government" Hitler's Mein Kampf Marx & Engels' 1844 Manuscripts The German Ideology Communist Manifesto 20th and beyond Bernstein's Evolutionary Socialism Lenin's Marxism and Revisionism Mao's On the People's Democratic Dictatorship Trotsky's Permanent Revolution

Lecture Notes Introduction Liberalism Hobbes Locke Conservatism I (Burke) Conservativism II (Neo-Cons and the Religious Right)

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