Age of Reason & Enlightenment - Political Theories
Enlightenment Excerpts
enlightenment_excerpts.doc | |
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Divine Right
king_james_divine_right_reading.doc | |
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Hobbes' Leviathan Reading Guide (optional)
hobbes_reading_guide.doc | |
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Locke's 2nd Treatise Reading Guide (optional)
how_are_locke_and_hobbes_similar.doc | |
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Rousseau's Social Contract Reading Guide (optional)
pol_theory_rousseau_2.doc | |
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French Revolution
Robespierre & Napoleon Readings
robespierre___napoleon_readings.doc | |
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19th Century Social & Economic Theories
Mary Wollstonecraft (various selections)
mary_wollstonecraft_2019.pdf | |
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Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
adam_smith_won.doc | |
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19th Century Social Dissent: Responses to the Industrial Revolution
19th_century_social_dissent.doc | |
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John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
jsmill_subjection_of_women.doc | |
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Mill, John Stuart. “The Subjection of Women.” 1869. Constitution Society. Web. 24 April 2016.
Nationalism
Helmut von Treitschke, excerpts from Politics
von_treitschke_excerpts.doc | |
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20th Century Readings
V.I. Lenin, State and Revolution
vi_lenin_state_and_rev.doc | |
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Edward O. Wilson, excerpts from The Meaning of Human Existence
from_edward_o._wilson_meaning_human_existence.doc | |
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Documentary on Nietzsche: "Human, All Too Human" (click on title)
Sigmund Freud, excerpts from Civilization and its Discontents
freud_civilization_and_its_discontents.doc | |
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Atlantic article on Madeiline Albright's new book on contemporary fascist movements
m_albright_fascism_atlantic.docx | |
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Nuremberg Trials (reading for seminar on the Holocaust)
nuremberg_trials.doc | |
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For seminar on existentialism, please read either one of the articles below.
1. Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
This is a long article. Feel free to read half: the first half is a response to criticism; the
second half is an attempt to define existentialism.
1. Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
This is a long article. Feel free to read half: the first half is a response to criticism; the
second half is an attempt to define existentialism.
jean_sartre.doc | |
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2. Julian Baggini, Happy Birthday, Kierkegaard; We Need You Now (link to article)
Optional: Here is a little more on Kierkegaard if you are interested.
3. Robert Sarkissian's summary of Kierkegaard's philosophy
3. Robert Sarkissian's summary of Kierkegaard's philosophy
016._robert_sarkissian_summary_of_kierkegaard.pdf | |
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Wole Soyinka
excerpts_from_an_interview_with_wole_soyinka_doppiozero_11_dicembre_2015.doc | |
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Crawford Young, "The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria"
the_impossible_necessity_of_nigeria.doc | |
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Steven Pinker, "The Moral Instinct"
the_moral_instinct.doc | |
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Optional Readings on Non-Violence
Martin Luther King's Philosophy of Non-violence
(Click on title above to go to website or read print version in file below.)
Interview with Gene Sharp (file below)
(Click on title above to go to website or read print version in file below.)
Interview with Gene Sharp (file below)
the_king_philosophy.doc | |
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gene_sharp_interview.doc | |
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Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance (starting at "Devising a Nonviolent Resistance Campaign Strategy" on page 36 - 45):