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Politics & Society Tutorial Reading List
Revised 12/6/2011

NOTES: Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.
You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I (1094a1-1103a10)
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II (1103a11-1109b26)
3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics III (1109b30-1119b18)
4. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IV, 3 (1123a35-1125a35); V, 1-7(1129a1-1135a15)
5. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VI (1138b18-1145a12)
6. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1-10 (1145a15-1152a35)
7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VIII (1155a1-1163b27)
8. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IX(1163b30-1172a16)
9. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VII, 11-14 (1152b1-1154b34); X, 4-9 (1174a13 to end)
10. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Law: Questions 90-91
11. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Law: Questions 92-93
12. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Law: Questions 94-95
13. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Law: Questions 96-97
14. Hobbes, Leviathan, Dedication; Introduction; 1-7
15. Hobbes, Leviathan 8-11
16. Hobbes, Leviathan 12-13
17. Hobbes, Leviathan 14-15
18. Hobbes, Leviathan 16-19
19. Hobbes, Leviathan 20, 21, 24, 25
20. Hobbes, Leviathan 26, last paragraph of 28, 29, 30
21. Hobbes, Leviathan 31, 32, 39, 42, para. 11 only ("What Christians May Do ..."), 43, paragraphs 1-6, IV, 44, paragraphs 1-4, 47, Conclusion (last paragraph)
22. Declaration of Independence & Articles of Confederation
23. U.S. Constitution
24. Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 31
25. Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist 39, 47, 49, 51, first and last paragraph of 48, 71
26. Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist 78, 81, to "But why. . " 84;
Marbury v. Madison
27. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vintage Books Edition: Vol I: Author's Introduction, Chapters III, VIII (final three sections), XV. University of Chicago Press, Anchor Books, Harper & Row, and Penguin Editions: Vol. 1: Introduction; Part 1, Chapters 3 and 8 (final three sections); Part 2, Chapter 7
28. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vintage Books Edition: Vol I: Chapters XVI, XVII (final section); Vol. II: 1st Book, Chapters I-III, V, VIII, XI. University of Chicago Press, Anchor Books, Harper & Row, and Penguin Editions: Vol. 1: Part 2, Chapters 8 and 9 (final section); Vol 2: Part 1, Chapter 1-3, 5, 8, 11
29. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vintage Books Edition, Vol. II: 2nd Book, Chapters I-IX, XIII-XV; 4th Book, Chapters VI-VIII University of Chicago Press, Anchor Books, Harper and Row, and Penguin Editions: Vol. 2: Part 2, Chapters 1-9, 13- 15; Part 4, Chapters 6-8
30. Dred Scott v. Sanford
Lincoln, "On the Dred Scott Decision"
Douglass, "The Constitution of the U.S.: Is it Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery"
31. Plessy v. Ferguson, include Harlan's dissent
32. Sweatt v Painter & Brown v. Board of Education

Addendum to Readings 27-29
Correspondence of Chapters in Various Editions of Toqueville's Democracy in America
Vintage Books Edition
University of Chicago Press,
Anchor Books, Harper and Row,
and Penguin Editions
27. Volume I: Author's Introduction, Chapters III, VIII (final three sections), XV Volume I: Introduction, Part I - Chapters 3, 8 (final three sections), Part 2 - Chapter 7
28. Volume I: Chapters XVI, XVII (final section); Volume II, 1st Book: Chapters I-III, V, VIII, XI Volume I: Part 2 - Chapters 8, 9 (final section); Volume 2: Part 1 - Chapters 1-3, 5, 8, 11
29.  Volume II, 2nd Book: Chapters I-IX, XIII-XV; Volume II, 4th Book: Chapters VI-VIII Volume 2: Part 2 - Chapters 1-9, 13-15, Part 4 - Chapters 6-8


Politics & Society Seminar Reading List
Revised 12/9/09

NOTES: Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.
You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Plutarch, Lives of Lycurgus and Solon
2. Plato, Republic, I 327a-II 368c3
3. Plato, Republic, II 368c-IV 427c
4. Plato, Republic, IV 427d-VI 502c
5. Plato, Republic, VI 502d-VII
6. Plato, Republic, VIII-X
7. Aristotle, Politics, Book I, 1252a1 - 1260b24
8. Aristole, Politics, Book III, 1274b30 - 1288b5
9. Machiavelli, The Prince, I-XIV
10. Machiavelli, The Prince, XV-XXVI
11. Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, I-X
12. Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, XI-XIX
13. Rousseau, On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, Second Discourse, Part I (including Letter of Dedication, Preface and Rousseau's notes from any edition which contains Rousseau's notes)
14. Rousseau, On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, Second Discourse, Part II
15. Marx, The German Ideology, Part One (International Publishers pp. 35-95); “Theses on Feuerbach” (pp. 121-123); “Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer” (photocopy)
16. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, Preface; First Essay: “Good and Evil,” “Good and Bad”; Second Essay: “Guilt,” “Bad Conscience,” and the Like.