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Politics & Society Tutorial Reading List
Revised 12/13/06

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, 1-7 (1094a1-1098b8)
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Finish Book I (through 1103a10)
3. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II (1103a11-1109b26)
4. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics III (1109b30-1119b18)
5. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IV, 3 (1123a35-1125a35); V, 1-7(1129a1-1135a15)
6. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VI, 1-7 (1138b18-1141b23), 12-13 (1143b18-1145a12)
7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics VIII (1155a1-1163b27)
8. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IX(1163b30-1172a16)
9. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics X, 4-9 (1174a13 to end)
10. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Natural Law: Questions 90-91
11. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Natural Law: Questions 92-93
12. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Natural Law: Questions 94-95
13. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. I-II: Treatise on Natural Law: Questions 96-97
14. Hobbes, Leviathan, Dedication; Introduction; 1-5
15. Hobbes, Leviathan 6-8
16. Hobbes, Leviathan 9-12
17. Hobbes, Leviathan 13-16
18. Hobbes, Leviathan 17-20
19. Hobbes, Leviathan 21, 24-26, last paragraph of 28
20. Hobbes, Leviathan 29-32, 39 42, paragraph 11 only ("What Christians May Do. . . .") 43, paragraphs 1-6, IV, 44, paragraphs 1-4
21. Hobbes, Leviathan IV, 47, Review and Conclusion
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-IV, VIII-XV; 3rd Book, Chapter XIX; 4th Book, Chapters VI-VIII. University of Chicago Press, Anchor Books, Harper & Row, and Penguin Editions: Vol. 2: Part 2, Chapters 1-4, 8-15; Part 3, Chapter 19; 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
32. Sweatt v Painter & Brown v. Board of Education

Politics & Society Seminar Reading List
Revised 12/02/05

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
10. Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, I-X
11. Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, XI-XIX
12. 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)
13. Rousseau, On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, Second Discourse, Part II
14. Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Milligan trans.

  • Preface pp. 13-18
  • Wages of Labor pp. 19-34.
  • [Estranged Labor] pp. 69-84

15. Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Milligan trans., pp.85-134

  • [Antithesis of Capital and Labor.]
  • [Private Property and Labor.]
  • [Private Property and Communism.]
  • [The Meaning of Human Requirements.]
16. Melville, Billy Budd