Enlightenment & Post-Enlightenment Theory

Fall 2005

Syllabus

Reading schedule updated 12-3

Paper-Writing Guide

Readings:

Social Contract Theory

Hannah Arendt - Mankind and Terror

Charles Taylor - Excerpt from The Politics of Recognition

Extra Links:

Utilitarianism, Mill, & America

Wollstonecraft: The Missing Link

Locke and Slavery

Lots of Locke Links

Help in understanding Rousseau and the Social Contract

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
• http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/soc-cont.htm#SH2c
• http://www.4literature.net/Jean_Jacques_Rousseau/The_Social_Contract/
• http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw272.htm