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Answer these questions on the major themes in Mill's Utilitarianism and On Liberty.

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Course Introduction

Course Syllabus

Course Terms of Use

Unit 1: The Polis

1.1: The Just and the Unjust

Plato's Republic: Books I and II

Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic I-II

1.2: The Ideal City

Plato's Republic: Books III and IV

Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic III-IV

Discussion: Plato's Republic

1.3: The Philosopher-King

Plato's Republic: Book V

Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic V

Quickfire Quiz: The Republic

1.4: The Socratic Method

Plato's Apology

Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology

Plato's Republic: Book X

Poetry and Philosophy

The Socratic Method Discussion

1.5: The Ideal Citizen and the Ideal State

Plato's Crito

The Antagonism between Personal and Public Virtue

Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Crito

Quickfire Quiz: Crito

1.6: The Good Life: Virtue and Happiness

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Book I

The Good Life: Virtue and Well-Being

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Book II

The Doctrine of the Mean

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Book III

The Preconditions of Virtue: Voluntary vs. Involuntary Action

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Books IV-V

Justice as a Virtue

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Book VI

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: Book X

Practical Reason and Politics

Discussion: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Quickfire Quiz: Nicomachean Ethics

1.7: Rule of Law

Aristotle's Politics

The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics I-III

The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics IV

Distributive Justice as the Task of the Polis

The Primacy of Law

Discussion: Aristotle's Politics

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Modern Political Thought

2.1: Timing and Cunning in Politics

Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince

New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli's The Prince, Chapters 1-12

Discussion: Machiavelli Today

The Significance of Mercenaries

Quickfire Quiz: The Prince

2.2: Sovereignty

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan I

The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan II-III

Quickfire Quiz: Leviathan

2.3: Constitutional Government

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government

Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise 1-5

Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise 7-12

Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise 13-19

Discussion: Locke's Second Treatise

Essay: Perspectives on the Modern State

Quickfire Quiz: Second Treatise of Civil Government

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Liberal Democracy and Its Critics

3.1: Discourse on Inequality

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality

Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse I

Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse II

Discussion: Rousseau Today

Quickfire Quiz: Discourse on Inequality

3.2: Democratic Participation

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract