8/25

Introduction to the class........Notes on Deductive Arguments

8/27

Hobbes…..Selections from the Leviathan, pp. 402-226 in Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy

9/1

Hobbes continued….pp. 426-441

9/3

Locke…..Selections from the Second Treatise on Government….Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 as well as 6, 7, 8, and 9 (pp.461-466 and 474-485 in Cahn’s Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy)

9/8

Locke…. Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19 in the Second Treatise on Government aw well “Letter Concerning Toleration” (pp. 492-513 in CPMP)

9/10

Locke…..Chapter 5 in the Second Treatise on Government (pp. 467-474 in CPMP)......Also read on the web: UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights and UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

9/15

Indigenous Thought of the Americas– Photocopies….Guest speaker

9/17

Review and discussion …....Journals collected

9/22

Exam

9/24

Marx….Selections from the 1844 Manuscripts (pp. 832-839 in CPMP) plus “Summary of the Theory of Alienation” on the website

9/29

Marx, Selections from The German Ideology (pp. 839- 848 in CPMP) and “Summary of the Theory of Ideology” on the website

10/1

10/6

Engels, “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”…..pp 879-889 in CPMP

10/8

Liberal Perspectives on Distributive Justice….Rawls….Selections from A Theory of Justice……pp. 1038-1058

10/13

Conservative/Neo-liberal Perspectives on Distributive Justice…. Nozick…. Selections from Anarchy, State, and Utopia….pp. 1064-1074 in CPMP

10/15

Nozick continued

10/20

The Right to Healthcare Debate...Read a summary of President Obama's position on healthcare....Read Obama's Speech to Congress

10/22

The Right to Healthcare Debate Continued

10/27

Discussion and Review…………Journals collected

10/29

Exam

11/3

Schweickart’s After Capitalism, Chapter 1

11/5

Schweickart continued, Chapter 3

11/10

Schweickart continued, Chapter 3

11/12

Schweickart continued, Chapter 4

11/17

Journals collected.......

Finish Schweickart, Chapters 5 and 6

11/19

Special Event on South Asian Buddhism

11/24

Shiva’s Earth Democracy, Preface and Chapter 1

12/1

Shiva continued, Chapter 2

12/3

Shiva continued

12/8

Review and discussion…..Journals due

12/10

Exam

12/15

Party