History of Political Philosophy 2

History of Political Philosophy 2: Module IV: Modern Political Philosophy

Jun-Hyeok KWAK

Week1: Introduction (1): Modernity

[Required Reading] Leo Strauss, “Three Waves of Modernity,” in An Introduction to Political Philosophy, edited by Hilail Gildin (Wayne State University Press, 1989), pp. 81-98.

Week 2: Introduction (2): Natural Right

[Required Reading] Leo Strauss, “Natural Right and the Historical Approach,” ” in An Introduction to Political Philosophy, edited by Hilail Gildin (Wayne State University Press, 1989), pp. 99-124.

Week 3: Introduction (3): Modern State

[Required Reading] Quentin Skinner, “The State,” in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, edited by Terence Ball, James Farr and Russell L. Hanson (Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 90-131.

Week 4: Thomas Hobbes (1): Historical Conjecture on Social Contract

[Required Reading] Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 6, 10-15, edited by Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 37-46 & 62-111.

Week 5: Thomas Hobbes (2): Political Authority

[Required Reading] Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 16-20, edited by Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 111-144.

Week 6: Thomas Hobbes (3): Liberty after Social Contract

[Required Reading] Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 21-23 & 29-, edited by Richard Tuck (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 144-170 & 221-230.

[Pop Quiz 1] Study questions will be provided a week in advance.

Week 7: John Locke (1): Natural Rights

[Required Reading] John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, in Two Treatises of Government Chapter 1-5, edited by Peter Laslett (Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 267-302.

Week 8: John Locke (2): Political Society

[Required Reading] John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, in Two Treatises of Government Chapter 7-9, edited by Peter Laslett (Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 318-353.

Week 9: John Locke (3): Political Legitimacy

[Required Reading] John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, in Two Treatises of Government Chapter 13-15 & 19 , edited by Peter Laslett (Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 366-384, 406-428.

Week 10: Mid Exam (Take-Home)

Week 11: Jean Jacque Rousseau (1): Self-Love

[Required Reading] Rousseau, The Second Discourse Part 2, in The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses, edited and translated by Susan Dunn (Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 113-148.

Week 12: Jean Jacque Rousseau (2): the General Will

[Required Reading] Rousseau, The Social Contract Book 1 Chapter 2-8 & Book 2 Chapter 1-10, in The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses, edited and translated by Susan Dunn (Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 156-167, 170-189.

Week 13: Jean Jacque Rousseau (3): On Democracy

[Required Reading] Rousseau, The Social Contract Book 3 & Book 4 Chapter 8, in The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses, edited and translated by Susan Dunn (Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 193-226 & 245-253.

Week 14: Edmund Burke: Political Psychology

[Required Reading] Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful 1.2-19, 4.1-25, , edited by Adam Philips (Oxford University Press, 199), 30-35

Week 15: Immanuel Kant: Morality and Politics

[Required Reading] Kant, Toward Perpetual Peace, in Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History, translated by David L. Colcalsure (Yale University Press, ), pp.67-109.

Week 16: Hegel: Ethical Life

[Required Reading] Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by Arnold V. Miller (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 10-23, 49-80, & 410-416.

[Pop Quiz 2] Study questions will be provided a week in advance.

Week 17: Marx: Politics and History

[Required Reading] Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, in Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Vol. 11 (International Publishers, 2005), pp. 99-197.

Week 18: Mill: Representative Government

[Required Reading] Mill, Consideration on Representative Government, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill Vol. 19, edited by John M. Robson (Routledge & Kegan paul, 1977), pp. 399-466.

Week 19: Nietzsche: Sovereign Individual

[Required Reading] Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Part 1-2 & Part 5, translated by Judith Norman (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 5-42 & 75-92.

Week 20: Final Exam (In-class Exam)