Graduate Institute
Santa Fe
Politics and Society Seminar and Tutorial Reading Lists
Politics and Society Tutoral Reading List - Summer
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.
First assignment: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Bekker pages 1094a1‑1098b8 (noted in margin).
Weeks One through Three - 12 meetings
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics books I and II, III, IV 1123a34‑1125a35, V 1129a3‑1136a9, VI, VII 1145a15‑1152a35, VIII 1155a3‑1161b11, X chapters 7-8
Week Four - 4 meetings
Aquinas, Treatise on Law questions 90‑97
Week Five - 4 meetings
Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Preface and parts 1 and 2 (Part 3 optional).
Week Six - 4 meetings
Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution (all in appendix of Federalist Papers, paperback Modern Library edition Random House); Federalist Papers, 1, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 23, 37, 39, 47 (first 4 pages), 48, 49, 51, 70 (first 2 pages), 71, 78, 81 (first 4 pages), 84
Week Seven (Monday) - 1 meeting
Melville, Billy Budd
Week Seven (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday) - 3 meetings
Tocqueville, Democracy in America:
Volume I, Author’s Introduction and chapters III‑V (Vintage edition: pages 3‑16 and 46‑97; Chicago edition: pages 3-15 and 45-93).
Volume I, chapters IX, XIV‑XVI in Vintage (pages 173 and 237‑287); Volume One, Part Two, chapter 1 and chapters 6-8 in Chicago (pages 165 and 220-264).
Volume II, Book II, chapters I‑XI, XIV‑XVII and Volume II, Book III, chapters IX‑XII in Vintage (pages 94‑133, 140‑151; 198‑214); Volume Two, Part Two, chapters 1-11, 14-17 and Volume Two, Part Three, chapters 9-12 in Chicago (pages 479-508, 514-524;
563-576).
(Pagination for editions other than Vintage and Chicago may be different.)
Week Eight - 3 meetings
Decisions of the United States Supreme Court: Dred Scott v. Sandford (with Lincoln’s Springfield Speech); Plessy v. Ferguson; Brown v. Board of Education. (Photocopy available from the St John’s Bookstore--do not use the abridgements in The People Shall Judge.)
Politics and Society Seminar Reading List - Summer
Monday and Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.
Week One
1. Plato, Republic books I‑II
2. Republic books III‑IV
Week Two
3. Republic books V‑VI
4. Republic books VII‑VIII
Week Three
5. Republic books IX‑X
6. Aristotle, Politics Book I
Week Four
7. Politics, Book III
8. Machiavelli, The Prince
Week Five
9. Hobbes, Leviathan Author's Introduction and chapters 1‑9
10. Leviathan chapters 10‑16
Week Six
11. Leviathan chapters 17-21, chapter 26
12. Locke, Of Civil Government chapters I‑XI (omit paragraphs 64‑86 and 100‑122). Also called Second Treatise of Government.
Week Seven
13. Rousseau, On the Origins of Inequality Part I
14. On the Origins of Inequality Part II
Week Eight
15. Marx: Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts (1844) First Manuscript (“Wages of Labor” through “Estranged Labor”) (Chapter titles from Early Writings, Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton, translators, Penguin Classics edition; chapter titles will be different in other translations.)
16. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts Third Manuscript through “Money” (begins with “Private Property and Labor”) |
