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POLSC201: Introduction to Western Political Thought
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Unit 1: The Polis
1.6: The Good Life: Virtue and Happiness
Practical Reason and Politics
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: "Book X"
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Plato's
Republic
: "Books I and II”
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, I-II"
Plato's
Republic
: "Books III and IV”
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, III-IV"
Discussion: Plato's
Republic
Plato's
Republic
: "Book V"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, V"
Quickfire Quiz:
The Republic
Plato's
Apology
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology"
Plato's
Republic
: "Book X"
Poetry and Philosophy
The Socratic Method: Short Answer Question
Plato's
Crito
The Antagonism between Personal and Public Virtue
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Crito"
Quickfire Quiz:
Crito
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"
Discussion: Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics
Quickfire Quiz:
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's
Politics
Yale University: Steven Smith's "The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics, I-III"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "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
Nicolò Machiavelli's
The Prince
Yale University: Steven Smith's "New Modes and Orders: Machiavelli's The Prince, Chapters 1-12"
Discussion: Machiavelli Today
The Significance of Mercenaries
Quickfire Quiz:
The Prince
Thomas Hobbes'
Leviathan
Yale University: Steven Smith's "The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan, Part I"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "The Sovereign State: Hobbes' Leviathan, Parts II and III"
Quickfire Quiz:
Leviathan
John Locke's
Second Treatise of Government
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise, Parts 1-5"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise, Parts 7-12"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise, Parts 13-19"
Discussion: Locke's
Second Treatise
Essay: Perspectives on the Modern State
Quickfire Quiz:
Second Treatise of Civil Government
Unit 2 Assessment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's
Discourse on Inequality
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse, Part I"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse, Part II"
Discussion: Rousseau Today
Quickfire Quiz:
Discourse on Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's
The Social Contract
Essay: The Founding Fathers and Enlightenment Thought
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Social Contract, Parts I-II”
Quickfire Quiz: Approaches to the Social Contract
Alexis de Tocqueville's
Democracy in America
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part I"
Yale University: Steven Smith's "Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part II"
Quickfire Quiz:
Democracy in America
David Riazanov's
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: An Introduction to Their Lives and Work
: "Chapter II"
University of Cambridge: Alan MacFarlane's "Karl Marx (1818-1883)"
Karl Marx's
On the Jewish Question
Yale University: Ian Shapiro's "Marx and the Enlightenment"
Karl Marx's
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
: "Preface"
Karl Marx's
Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
: "Part I: The Commodity"
Karl Marx's
Capital
: "Chapter 14: Counteracting Influences"
Karl Marx's
Critique of the Gotha Program
Yale University: Ian Shapiro's "Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice"
Analytical Marxism: Self-Ownership and Distributive Justice
Yale University: Ian Shapiro's "The Marxian Failure and Legacy"
Discussion: Marx and Communism
Foundation for Economic Education: Jim Powell's "John Stuart Mill's Immortal Case for Toleration"
Yale University: Iván Szelényi's "Mill: Utilitarianism and Liberty"
John Stuart Mill's
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill's
Utilitarianism
Yale University: Ian Shapiro's "The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility"
Yale University: Ian Shapiro's "Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis"
Perfectionism in Mill's On Liberty
Quickfire Quiz:
Utilitarianism
and
On Liberty
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 1 Study Guide and Review: The Polis
Unit 2 Study Guide and Review: Modern Political Thought
Unit 3 Study Guide and Review: Liberal Democracy and Its Critics
Optional Course Evaluation Survey
POLSC201: Final Exam
POLSC201: Saylor Direct Credit Final Exam
Discussion: Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics
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