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جـامعـة الشــارقـة
كلـية الآداب و العـلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية
قسم العلاقات الدولية
University of Sharjah
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
B.A. in International Relations
Course Description
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
Course title
Political Theory
Course number
0205-204
Prerequisite (if any)
Co-requisite (if any)
Type
Lecture
Credit hours
3
Semester/Year
Fall 2014
Teaching/learning methodologies
Lecture/Seminar/Discussion
Course coordinator
Dr. Jeremy Kleidosty
Room
M10-008 (MW 12:30-13:45)
Course Evaluation:
Essay 1
20
Essay 2
20
Multi-media project, participation
20
Final Exam
40
Total
100%
Department of International Relations
University of Sharjah
Introduction to Political Theory
Semester 1
September 2014 - January 2015
Module co-ordinator: Dr. Jeremy Kleidosty
(
[email protected]; +971 06 505 3310)
MODULE DESCRIPTION
This course gives students a chronologically-based overview of the development of Western political philosophy. The first half of the course covers ancient thinkers from Greece and Rome and the various philosophical schools associated with them. The second half discusses philosophy from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. In order to make students aware of the breadth of philosophy, the course also engages with Islamic philosophy and examines its role in the West, as well as the work of female philosophers.
Learning Outcomes:
The dedicated student who attends lecture, reads widely, and writes analytically will gain:
Knowledge of the most cited and famous political philosophers.
An appreciation for the shared Greek roots of European and Islamic political theory.
An ability to analyse, discuss, and apply texts to their original contexts and to understand their on-going relevance.
A particular appreciation for how philosophy has shaped and interacted with political institutions, political goals, and political participation.
A view of philosophy that is inclusive of difference, aware of evolutionary aspects of key political ideas, and able to be applied to a variety of new political challenges.
Succeeding in this course will require consistent work and effort from the 1st week onward. As a full-time student, this course represents roughly 20-25% of your workload, and thus should require somewhere from 8-10 hours of your time weekly.
Any problems, questions, complaints, or other issues regarding this course should be directed myself, Dr. Jeremy Kleidosty in the first instance, or thereafter to the Vice-Dean, Dr. Showqi Bahumaid. Office hours are the best time to discuss these matters and I currently hold 8 office hours per week that are listed on my university webpage and on my office door. Should these times be unsuitable, please email me at
[email protected].
Please note that University and School regulations regarding attendance, examinations, academic misconduct, can now be found on the School website. Students are responsible for knowing and must adhere to the contents of the School handbook which is available on the School website under Academic regulations and information.
Lecture Programme
There are 2 lectures each week, at 12:30pm in M10, Room 080. The second session each week will include discussion time and interactive exercises.
Week 1.
Introduction
Overview of Philosophy and Political Philosophy
Week 2.
The Pre-Socratics
Socrates
Week 3.
Plato
Platonism and Plotinus
Week 4.
Aristotle
Aristotle Continued
Week 5.
Cicero
Aurelius
Week 6.
Al-Farabi
Ibn Sina
Week 7. Mid-term Revision
Week 8.
Augustine
Aquinas
Week 9.
Hobbes
Hobbes and Realism/Liberalism
Week 10.
St Pierre
Rousseau
Week 11.
Kant and Peace
Kant, the Enlightenment, and Political Implications
Week 12.
Arendt, Banality and Natality
Women in Political Theory
Week 13.
Foucault and the Information State
Critical theory in International Relations
Week 14.
Final Exam Preparation/Review
ESSAYS
You are required to submit two 2, 000-words essays (including references, but excluding Bibliography with a margin of 10% either way- two hard copies) by the day indicated on the assignment. The first essay question, Section A, is mandatory. For the second essay, you must choose ONE of the questions from Section B.
Section A
Essay 1 Prompt
"Justice removed, then, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers? What are bands of robbers themselves but little kingdoms?" (Augustine)
"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying "This is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society (Rousseau).
Discuss with reference to both Rousseau and Augustine. Are they using political theory to simply justify power as it exists, or are they making a different argument? What is distinct in their philosophical questions, approaches, and potential answers? Conclude by examining why their differences matter for the way we conceive of the proper role of society and our own roles within it.
Readings:
Augustine
J. Elshtain Augustine and the Limits of Politics
J. Rist, Augustine, Ancient Thought Baptised, Chapter 6,
M. Hanby, Augustine and Modernity
H. Chadwick, Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
R. Dodaro, Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine, Chapters 2-3,
E. Stump and N. Kretzmann, Cambridge Companion to Augustine, "Augustine's Political Philosophy,"
Georgetown Augustine Project, "Augustine the African," "Christianity and Society," "Confessions"
Augustine, The City of God Against the Pagans, Book 4, Chapter 4 and Book 19 chapters 11-14, 17
Rousseau
D. Boucher and P. Kelly Political Thinkers (Chapter 14)
H. Gildin Rousseau's Social Contract: the design of the argument
I. Hampsher-Monk A History of Political Thought, (Chapter 4)
T.O'Hagan Rousseau, (Chapters 4-6)
S. Johnston Encountering Tragedy, (Chapter 4)
D. Knowles Political Philosophy, (Chapter 7)
J. Plamenatz Man and Society Vol. 1
J-J. Rousseau Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (also entitled Second Discourse)
J. Shklar Men and Citizens
T. Strong The Politics of the Ordinary
D. Tannenbaum and G. Schultz Inventors of Ideas, (Ch. 14)
N. Warburton et al. Machiavelli to Mill, (Ch. 4)
**Numerous and varied sources are also available through searches on scholar.google.com and through the Google Books, Project Gutenberg, MIT Classics, and many other sources. The online database, JSTOR, available through the University is also an excellent place to search for additional information.
DEADLINE: 17 November
Section B
1. How influential have the philosophers we've studied this term actually been on present-day society? Discuss at least two of the thinkers and be as specific as possible in demonstrating the connection between their writings and things that are actually present (whether political, cultural, scientific, etc.).
2. Why do you think Ibn Sina made such an impact on Western philosophy? What specifically are his most important contributions to Western thought?
3. Did Augustine manage to successfully reconcile Greek, Roman, and Christian philosophy? What are some key consequences of his fusion of these traditions?
4. Draw a picture that represents the 'state of nature.' Discuss your drawing with reference to the views of Hobbes and Rousseau on the state of nature.
5. Augustine, Hobbes, and Rousseau all agree that people want peace. Using inspiration from the perpetual peace plans (be sure to mention who wrote them) we studied, attempt to create your own basic rules for world peace. Give at least 3 rules/premises and explain why they are the most necessary ingredients for creating peace. (Please keep it somewhat realistic. For instance, do not make rule number 1 that all people must immediately stop arguing.)
6. Hannah Arendt is a rare example of a woman who has become part of the (political) philosophical canon. Why is she so uncommon? Are there any insights that she has that are from a particularly female perspective?
7. Foucault's views of the world represent a significant departure from Enlightenment philosophy. Defend this statement with reference to his essay 'What is Enlightenment?'
Readings
Textbooks to purchase
There is no single text for this module. Each thinker has a number of works that should be consulted, many of which are out of copyright and available for free through Google Books or Project Gutenberg. Alternatively, the Cambridge Editions of these texts are authoritative translations and include helpful introductory essays.
Other Useful Texts:
C. Brown, T. Nardin & N. Rengger (eds.), International Relations in Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
David Boucher, Political Theories of International Relations,
Some Advice on Reading
The reading list is not comprehensive or exclusive, nor should students attempt to read all the books included. Reading the text alone, however, is insufficient for interactive work and essays. Searches of the library catalog and Google Scholar will produce many other sources on the subject. The catalogue can be searched by subject or by keyword.
Physical searches of the library shelves can yield useful sources, but it should be noted that IR books are dispersed throughout the library. Journal articles are a useful resource, being much shorter than books and offering a more concentrated treatment of a subject. The bound volumes in the library have contents pages and indices, and the library website contains a number of 'search engines' that can yield relevant articles.
Internet sources are often valuable, but should be treated with care: not all the information on the net is accurate, and much of it is unreliable. The library's website has many links to 'Electronic Resources'.
DO NOT CITE WIKIPEDIA
International Relations Journals
The Library contains many useful journals that are worth browsing. Specific references in the following reading lists are made by abbreviations:
NB. Journals marked [*] are available electronically via the library's website.
AJIL American Journal of International Law [* Available via JSTOR]
APSR American Political Science Review
BJIS British Journal of International Studies, now RIS
BJPIR British Journal of Politics and International Relations [* 1999-present]
CW Civil Wars
CC Co-operation and Conflict
D & S Diplomacy and Statecraft [* 2002-present]
EIA Ethics and International Affairs [* 1999-present]
FA Foreign Affairs [* 1984-present]
FP Foreign Policy [* 1984-present]
G&O Government and Opposition [* 2000-present]
HPT History of Political Thought [*1991-present]
IA International Affairs [* 1998-present]
IO International Organization [* 1947-present]
IS International Security [* 1999-present]
ISQ International Studies Quarterly
Mill. Millennium [* 2000-present]
Orb Orbis [* 1993-present]
PS Political Studies [* 1997-present]
RIS Review of International Studies [* 1997-present]
RP Review of Politics
SD Security Dialogue
Sur Survival [* 1998-present]
WP World Politics [*1987-present]
Blackboard
The course has a Blackboard page on which you will find lecture outlines and some electronic readings.
Discussion Program and Reading Lists
Week 1. The Branches of Philosophy and Political Thought
Discussion topic: Which of the main branches of philosophy seems most appropriate to thinking about politics? What makes it particularly useful? Are there other branches which you also feel are essential to understanding politics?
Readings:
Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy," The Problems of Philosophy. Project Gutenbert, eBook: 2009. . http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/5827-h/5827-h.htm
Media:
Stephen Fry on Philosophy- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpI7-HYaX-k
Uncertainty, film preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hQnM7S-Io
"Overcoming Uncertainty," Analysis of information, risk-taking, and decision-making: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EBYRqp8mFE
Week 2. The Pre-socratics and Socrates
Discussion topic: What separates Socrates from his predecessors? What defines his method?
Readings:
Pre-socratics
Annas, Julia. Hellenistic philosophy of mind. Vol. 8. Univ of California Press, 1994.
Hyland, Drew A. "The Origins of Philosophy: Its Rise in Myth and the Pre-Socratics: a Collection of Early Writings." (1973).
Mourelatos, Alexander PD. "The pre-socratics: a collection of critical essays." (1974).
Mourelatos, Alexander PD, Victor Miles Caston, and Daniel W. Graham. "Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos." (2002).
Popper, Karl R. "Back to the Pre-Socratics: The Presidential Address." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. Harrison & Sons, Ltd., 1958.
Socrates
Plato. Crito. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html
Plato. Euthyphro. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html
Cohen, S. Marc. "Socrates on the Definition of Piety: Euthyphro 10A-11B." Journal of the History of Philosophy 9.1 (1971): 1-13.
West, Thomas G., and Grace Starry West, eds. Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and Aristophanes' Clouds. Cornell University Press, 1998.
MacKinnon, D. M., and Hugo Meynell. "The Euthyphro Dilemma." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes (1972): 211-234.
Media:
The Last Airbender. http://www.youtube.com/v/P_CWNb9zA9U&feature=relmfu
Donald in Mathemagic Land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4gWPurN9k
Socrates Robologues Euthyphro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSHHXqjXCV4
Week 3. Plato, Platonism, and Plotinus
Discussion topic: What are the unique characteristics and contributions of Platonic philosophy? Why is it so important to political theory? How did this develop into neo-Platonism as seen in Plotinus? Did this fundamentally change our view of Plato?
Readings:
Plato
Plato. The Republic. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html
Plato. Statesman. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/stateman.html
Plato. Laws. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/laws.html
Bobonich, Christopher. "Plato's utopia recast: his later ethics and politics." (2002).
Markovits, Elizabeth. The politics of sincerity: Plato, frank speech, and democratic judgment. Penn State Press, 2008.
Hall, Dale. "The Republic and the 'Limits of Politics'." Political Theory (1977): 293-313.
Havelock, Eric. "Plato's Politics and the American Constitution." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1990): 1-24.
McKeon, Richard. "The Interpretation of Political Theory and Practice in Ancient Athens." Journal of the History of Ideas (1981): 3-12.
Plotinus
Plotinus. The Six Enneads. Available online: http://classics.mit.edu/Plotinus/enneads.html
De Blois, Lukas. "Traditional virtues and new spiritual qualities in third century views of empire, emperorship and practical politics." Mnemosyne (1994): 166-176.
Gatti, Maria Luisa. Plotinus: The Platonic tradition and the foundation of Neoplatonism. Vol. 16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Lautner, Peter. "A New Survey of Neoplatonism." The Classical Review (New Series) 53.01 (2003): 83-85.
Media:
"The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM
The Matrix
Week 4. Aristotle
Discussion topic: How does Aristotle's approach to finding the truth of a matter differ from that of other philosophers like Socrates and Plato? What are the direct and indirect consequences of this approach? Would you say most philosophers you know of are more Platonic or Aristotelian? What about society more generally?
Readings:
Aristotle. The Politics. Online: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html
Aristotle. The Athenian Constitution. Online: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/athenian_const.html
Keohane, Nannerl O. "Political Leadership." The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (2015).
Dietz, Mary G. "Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics." American Political Science Review 106.02 (2012): 275-293.
Wilson, James Lindley. "Deliberation, democracy, and the rule of reason in Aristotle's Politics." American Political Science Review 105.02 (2011): 259-274.
Cammack, Daniela. "Aristotle on the Virtue of the Multitude." Political Theory 41.2 (2013): 175-202.
Borisonik, Hernán. "Aristotle and the Tensions between Politics and Economy." Journal of Finance and Economics 2.1 (2014): 1-6.
Trott, Adriel M. Aristotle on the Nature of Community. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Week 5. Cicero and Aurelius
Discussion topic: Is there something uniquely Roman about these thinkers? Why might they be attracted to Stoicism? How does this Stoic-inspired philosophy make you feel? What would you say are its central concerns? Does Stoicism resonate with you personally?
Cicero
Readings:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Harold C. Gotoff. Cicero's Caesarian Speeches : A Stylistic Commentary. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and Margaret Graver. Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Niall Rudd and J. G. F. Powell. The Republic and The Laws. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, and D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Cicero's Letters to His Friends. Volumes 1 and 2. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth, UK; New York: Penguin Books, 1978.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius and James E. G. Zetzel. On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Secondary Readings:
Baraz, Yelena. A Written Republic: Cicero's Philosophical Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012.
Botein, Stephen. "Cicero as Role Model for Early American Lawyers: A Case Study in Classical 'Influence'." The Classical Journal 73, no. 4 (1978): 313–21.
Buchstein, Hubertus, and Dirk Jörke. "Redescribing Democracy." Redescriptions. Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 11 (2007): 178–202.
Cornell, T. J. "3. Cicero on the Origins of Rome." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 45, no. S76 (2001): 41–56.
Degraff, Thelma B. "Plato in Cicero." Classical Philology 35, no. 2 (1940): 143–53.
Emilie, Gertrude. "Cicero and the Roman Pietas." The Classical Journal 39, no. 9 (1944): 536–42.
Fox, Matthew. Cicero's Philosophy of History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Gallagher, Robert L. "Metaphor in Cicero's De Re Publica." The Classical Quarterly 51, no. 2 (2001): 509–19.
Hales, Shelley. "At Home with Cicero." Greece & Rome 47, no. 1 (2000): 44–55.
How, W.W. "Cicero's Ideal in his de Republica." The Journal of Roman Studies 20 (1930): 24–42.
Laks, André, and Malcolm Schofield, eds. Justice and Generosity: Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy: Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium Hellenisticum. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Mitchell, Thomas N. "Roman Republicanism: The Underrated Legacy." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145, no. 2 (2001): 127–37.
Momigliano, Arnaldo. "The Theological Efforts of the Roman Upper Classes in the First Century B.C." Classical Philology 79, no. 3 (1984): 199–211.
Nederman, Cary J. "Nature, Sin and the Origins of Society: The Ciceronian Tradition in Medieval Political Thought." Journal of the History of Ideas 49, no. 1 (1988): 3–26.
Nicgorski, Walter. "Cicero's Paradoxes and His Idea of Utility." Political Theory 12, no. 4 (1984): 557–78.
Nussbaum, Martha C. "Duties of Justice, Duties of Material Aid: Cicero's Problematic Legacy." Journal of Political Philosophy 8, no. 2 (2000): 176–206.
Petersson, Torsten. Cicero: a biography. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1963.
Radford, Robert T. Cicero: A Study in the Origins of Republican Philosophy. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2002.
Rosner, Mary. "Reflections on Cicero in Nineteenth-Century England and America." Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 4, no. 2 (1986): 153–82.
Rowe, Christopher and Malcolm Schofield. The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Russell, Frederick H. The Just War in the Middle Ages. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Schmidt, Peter L. "Cicero's Place in Roman Philosophy: A Study of His Prefaces." The Classical Journal 74, no. 2 (1978): 115–27.
Slaughter, M. S. "Cicero and His Critics." The Classical Journal 17, no. 3 (1921): 120–31.
Stockton, D. L. Cicero: A Political Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Vasaly, Ann. Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
White, Peter. Cicero in Letters: Epistolary Relations of the Late Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Wilson, Laurie. "From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: Readings of Cicero in the Political Thought of James Wilson." University of St Andrews, 2010.
Wood, Neal. Cicero's Social and Political Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
———"The Economic Dimension of Cicero's Political Thought: Property and State." Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 16, no. 04 (1983): 739–56.
Aurelius
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy, Ch. 7 'Roman Philosophy.'
Aurelius, Meditations, Book X http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/marcuaurelius1.asp
de Blois, Lukas. "The Relation of Politics and Philosophy under Marcus Aurelius." A Companion to Marcus Aurelius 96 (2012): 171.
Stertz, Stephen A. "Marcus Aurelius as ideal emperor in late-antique Greek thought." The Classical World (1977): 433-439.
Grant, Robert M. "Five Apologists and Marcus Aurelius." Vigiliae christianae (1988): 1-17.
Media:
Opening scene of Gladiator
Related- Winkler, Martin M. Gladiator: film and history. Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.
Week 6. Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina
Discussion topic: How would you describe Farabi's political thought? Is it Platonic? Aristotelian? Islamic? Something else? How does he claim people achieve happiness? Is it possible a non-Muslim regime could approximate his description of felicity? What contributions does Ibn Sina make? Why is he more famous both in Muslim and Christian-majority states?
Al-Farabi
Readings:
al-Farabi, A. N. and R. Walzer (1985). Al-Farabi on the perfect state: Abu Nasr al-Farabi's Mabadi ara ahl al-madina al-fadila : a revised text with introduction, translation, and commentary. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Berman, Lawrence V. "The political interpretation of the maxim: the purpose of philosophy is the imitation of God." Studia Islamica 15 (1961): 53-61.
Black, A. (2001). The history of Islamic political thought : from the Prophet to the present. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. (See sections on Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina)
Butterworth, Charles E. "Political Islam: The Origins." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1992): 26-37.
Galston, Miriam. "A Re-examination of al-Fāribī's Neoplatonism." Journal of the History of Philosophy 15.1 (1977): 13-32.
Hammond, R. (1947). The Philosophy of Al Farabi and its Influence on Medieval Thought. New York: Hobson Book Press.
Euben, Roxanne L. "Contingent borders, syncretic perspectives: Globalization, political theory, and Islamizing knowledge." International Studies Review (2002): 23-48.
Walzer, R. (1963). "Aspects of Islamic Political Thought: Al-Farabi and Ibn Khaldun." Oriens 16: 40-60.
Media:
Ibn Sina
Readings:
Butterworth, Charles E. "The political teaching of Avicenna." Topoi 19.1 (2000): 35-44.
Kaya, M. Cüneyt. "IN THE SHADOW OF "PROPHETIC LEGISLATION": THE VENTURE OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY AFTER AVICENNA." Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 24.02 (2014): 269-296.
Galston, Miriam. "Realism and Idealism in Avicenna's Political Philosophy." The Review of Politics 41.04 (1979): 561-577.
Morris, James W. "The Philosopher-Prophet in Avicenna's Political Philosophy."The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy. Essays in Honor of Muhsin S. Mahdi (1992): 152-198.
Media:
In Our Time overview of Ibn Sina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhF6NePV69w&feature=related
Week 7. Reading Week.
Week 8. Augustine and Aquinas
Discussion topic: How do Augustine and Aquinas Christianize political philosophy? What are the particular dilemmas they need to address? Are their solutions convincing?
Augustine
Augustine, and R. W. Dyson. The City of God against the Pagans, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. See Book 4, Chapter 4 and Book 19 chapters 11-14, 17.
M. Hanby, Augustine and Modernity
H. Chadwick, Augustine: A Very Short Introduction
Georgetown Augustine Project, "Augustine the African," "Christianity and Society," "Confessions"
Augustine, E. M. Atkins, and Robert Dodaro. Political Writings, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Bearsley, Patrick. "Augustine and Wittgenstein on Language." Philosophy 58, no. 224 (1983): 229-36.
Beer, David. "Voegelin's Debt to Augustine: The Mortgage of the City of God." (2010).
Bonner, Gerald, Robert Dodaro, and George Lawless. Augustine and His Critics: Essays in Honour of Gerald Bonner. London; New York: Routledge, 2000.
Brown, Chris, Terry Nardin, and N. J. Rengger. International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo : A Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Dodaro, Robert. Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Augustine and the Limits of Politics, Frank M. Covey, Jr. Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
Fitzgerald, Allan, and John C. Cavadini. Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans, 1999.
Fortin, Ernest L. "Augustine's "City of God" and the Modern Historical Consciousness." The Review of Politics 41, no. 3 (1979): 323-43.
Glover, Willis. "Human Nature and the State in Hobbes." Journal of the History of Philosophy 4, no. 4 (1966): 292-311.
Markus, R. A. Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine. [Rev. ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Matthews, B. Gareth. "Augustinianism." In Volume 1, edited by Robert Pasnau and Van Christina Dyke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Mommsen, Theodor E. "St. Augustine and the Christian Idea of Progress: The Background of the City of God." Journal of the History of Ideas 12, no. 3 (1951): 346-74.
Rist, John M. Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Smalley, Beryl, and Peter Brown. Trends in Medieval Political Thought. Essays by P. R. L. Brown [and Others]. Edited with Introduction by Beryl Smalley. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965.
Stalnaker, Aaron. Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine, Moral Traditions Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Stump, Eleonore, and Norman Kretzmann. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine [Electronic Book] / Edited by Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann, The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2006., 2006.
Taylor, Charles. The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Wills, Garry. Augustine's Confessions: A Biography, Lives of Great Religious Books. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Media:
Augustine of Hippo, Film preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmO8NIYsmQ&feature=related
Aquinas
Readings:
Aquinas. Summa Theologica. See Question 40.
Bleakley, Holly Hamilton. "The art of ruling in Aquinas' De Regimine Principum."History of Political Thought 20.4 (1999): 575-602.
Catto, Jeremy. "Ideas and Experience in the Political Thought of Aquinas." Past and Present (1976): 3-21.
Dyson, Robert William, ed. Aquinas: political writings. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Donnelly, Jack. "Natural Law and Right in Aquinas' Political Thought." The Western Political Quarterly (1980): 520-535.
Weithman, Paul J. "Augustine and Aquinas on original sin and the function of political authority." Journal of the History of Philosophy 30.3 (1992): 353-376.
Media:
Aquinas: 3-Minute Philosophies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz_iGGGMddw
Week 9. Hobbes and the 'isms'
Discussion topic: Chapter XIII- Why do people particularly like this passage? Does it justify Hobbes' answer to the problem of how to create order from chaos? Do you view the famous "nasty, brutish, short" line differently having read it in context?
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan. The First Part deals with the nature of man – see especially chap. 10 and 13-15. The Second Part deals with 'Commonwealths' or states – see especially chapters 17, 18 and 21. [1996 CUP ed.]
Secondary Reading on Hobbes:
Richard Tuck, Hobbes: a Very Short Introduction
Iain Hampsher-Monk, A History of Modern Political Thought, chap. 1.
D. Boucher & P. Kelly (eds.), Political Thinkers, chap. 10.
David Boucher, Political Theories of International Relations, chap. 7.
Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace, chap. 3.
M. Forsyth & M. Keens-Soper (eds.), The Political Classics vol. 1, chap. 5.
Charles Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, Introduction to part 1 & chaps. 1-3.
Richard Tuck, The Rights of War and Peace, chap. 4.
G. Slomp, Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory
Owen, J. J. (2005). "The Tolerant Leviathan: Hobbes and the Paradox of Liberalism." Polity 37(1): 130-148.
Shapin, S. and S. Schaffer (2011). Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
Skinner, Q. (1996). Reason and rhetoric in the philosophy of Hobbes. Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press.
Sorell, T. (1996). The Cambridge companion to Hobbes. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Springborg, P. (2007). The Cambridge companion to Hobbes's Leviathan. Cambridge: New York, Cambridge University Press.
Tarlton, C. (2001). "The despotical doctrine of Hobbes, part I: the liberalization of Leviathan." History of Political Thought 22(4): 587-618.
Vatter, M. E. (2004). "Strauss and Schmitt as Readers of Hobbes and Spinoza: On the Relation between Political Theology and Liberalism." CR: The New Centennial Review 4(3): 161-214.
Media:
Lord of the Flies (film or book are useful)
The Siege (film)
Week 10: St. Pierre and Rousseau, Liberalism and Peace
Discussion topic: What are the strong points of Abbe St. Pierre's plan? What do you see as its weaknesses? Do you see it as influential to the present? How does the work of St-Pierre and Rousseau interact?Are there reflections of the ideas of these thinkers in present international institutions?
Readings:
St. Pierre
St-Pierre, "A Project for Settling an Everlasting Peace in Europe," in Brown, C., et al. (2002). International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First World War. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rousseau
Rousseau, "Abstract and Judgement of Saint-Pierre's Project for Perpetual Peace," in Brown, C., et al. (2002). International relations in political thought: texts from the ancient Greeks to the First World War. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Rousseau:'The Social Contract' and Other Later Political Writings. Cambridge University Press: 1997.
Durkheim, E. (1960). Montesquieu and Rousseau: forerunners of sociology. Ann Arbor,, University of Michigan Press.
"Rousseau," in Forsyth, M. G. and H. M. A. Keens-Soper (1988). A Guide to the political classics : Plato to Rousseau. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press.
Osborn, A. M. (1940). Rousseau and Burke; a study of the idea of liberty in eighteenth-century political thought. London, New York [etc.], Oxford university press.
Media:
Pre-conceptions of world peace, from Miss Congeniality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3st-Hai1y54
A Virtual Visit to Disney's Small World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHNjckn4qU&feature=related
Week 11. Kant and the Individualization of Politics
Discussion topic: What is the categorical imperative? Why does it matter so much for political thought?
Readings:
Kant, Immanuel. Kant: political writings. Cambridge University Press: 1991. Chapter 2 'Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan purpose' and Chapter 5 'Perpetual Peace: a philosophical sketch' (also available online: http://www.constitution.org/kant/perpeace.htm)
Baylor, Michael G. "Kant's political writings." History of European Ideas 17.2-3 (1993): 379-379.
Bohman, James. "Republican Cosmopolitanism*." Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3 (2004): 336-352.
MacMillan, John. "A Kantian protest against the peculiar discourse of inter-liberal state peace." Millennium-Journal of International Studies 24.3 (1995): 549-562.
Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin. "A Kantian system? Democracy and third-party conflict resolution." American Journal of Political Science (2002): 749-759.
Nussbaum, Martha. "Kant and cosmopolitanism." The cosmopolitanism reader(2010): 27-44.
Waldron, Jeremy. "Kant's Legal Positivism." Harvard Law Review (1996): 1535-1566.
Media:
Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (esp. final duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader)
Week 12. Arendt, a female political philosophy?
Discussion topic: Should Hannah Arendt be studied simply as a philosopher, or as a female philosopher? What role does gender play in her view of politics, if any? What role does it play in her use of metaphor?
Readings:
Arendt, Hannah. The origins of totalitarianism. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1973.
Arendt, Hannah. The human condition. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Benhabib, Seyla. "Feminist theory and Hannah Arendt's concept of public space." History of the human sciences 6 (1993): 97-97.
Benhabib, Seyla. "Hannah Arendt and the redemptive power of narrative." Social Research (1990): 167-196.
Cutting-Gray, Joanne. "Hannah Arendt, feminism, and the politics of alterity:"What will we lose if we win?"." Hypatia 8.1 (1993): 35-54.
Gottsegen, Michael G. The political thought of Hannah Arendt. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Hill, Melvyn A., ed. Hannah Arendt: The recovery of the public world. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Hinchman, Lewis P., and Sandra Hinchman, eds. Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays. State University of New York Press, 1994.
Markus, Maria. "The'anti-feminism'of Hannah Arendt." Thesis Eleven 17.1 (1987): 76-87.
Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel. The attack of the blob: Hannah Arendt's concept of the social. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Vatter, Miguel. "Natality and biopolitics in Hannah Arendt." Revista de ciencia política (Santiago) 26.2 (2006): 137-159.
Wolin, Sheldon S. "Hannah Arendt: democracy and the political." Salmagundi(1983): 3-19.
Media:
Hannah Arendt (film, 2012)
Week 13. Foucault and Critical Political Thought
Discussion topic: What distinguishes new wars? Have we moved from old to new wars? To what extent can the conflicts in Sierra Leone during the 1990s and in Liberia from 1997-2003 be called 'new wars'?
Readings:
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. Random House LLC, 1977.
Foucault, Michel. "What is Enlightenment?" in Paul Rainbow, ed. The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin, 1984): 32-50.
Alford, C. Fred. "What would it matter if everything Foucault said about prison were wrong? Discipline and Punish after twenty years." Theory and Society 29.1 (2000): 125-146.
Ashenden, Samantha, and David Owen, eds. Foucault contra Habermas: Recasting the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory. Sage, 1999.
Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Hiley, David R. "Foucault and the Question of Enlightenment." Philosophy & social criticism 11.1 (1985): 63-83.
Ransom, John. Foucault's discipline: The politics of subjectivity. Duke University Press, 1997.
Media:
Multimedia Panopticon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5jHnQ9x6M&feature=related
