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The seminar will focus on Hobbes and Locke. We will read and discuss passages of their texts to understand how they managed to reach beyond the strictly philosophical debate. Religion and politics will be of key interest here. The seminar should at the same moment provide a good background for individual explorations of 17th- and 18th-century plays, poems and novels which have been read as influenced by the philosophical debate and the enlightenment it is supposed to have spread. | The seminar will focus on Hobbes and Locke. We will read and discuss passages of their texts to understand how they managed to reach beyond the strictly philosophical debate. Religion and politics will be of key interest here. The seminar should at the same moment provide a good background for individual explorations of 17th- and 18th-century plays, poems and novels which have been read as influenced by the philosophical debate and the enlightenment it is supposed to have spread. | ||
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| + | ==Oct 22, 2007== | ||
| + | Discussed general course outline. First aim to read Hobbes "of Man" and in a survey: "of Common-Wealth". Homework read into ''Leviathan'' up to p.17 original pagination. | ||
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| + | ==Oct 29, 2007== | ||
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| + | ==Nov 5, 2007== | ||
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| + | ==Nov 12, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Nov 19, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Nov 28, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Dec 3, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Dec 10, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Dec 17, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Jan 7, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Jan 14, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Jan 21, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Jan 28, 2007== | ||
| + | ==Feb 4, 2007== | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
| − | * Thomas Hobbes. ''Leviathan''. London, 1651. | + | * Thomas Hobbes. ''Leviathan''. London, 1651. (Recomended edition: Penguin) |
* John Locke. ''Two Treatises on Government''. London, 1689. | * John Locke. ''Two Treatises on Government''. London, 1689. | ||
| − | * John Locke. ''An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding''. London, 1689. | + | * John Locke. ''An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding''. London, 1689. (I will supply materials) |
| − | * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. ''An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit''. London, 1699. | + | * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. ''An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit''. London, 1699. (I will supply materials) |
| − | * Bernard Mandeville. ''Fable of the Bees''. 3nd edition. London, 1724. | + | * Bernard Mandeville. ''Fable of the Bees''. 3nd edition. London, 1724. (Recomended edition: Penguin) |
[[Category:Winter 2007-2008]] | [[Category:Winter 2007-2008]] | ||
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]] | [[Category:Aufbaumodul]] | ||
Revision as of 13:27, 30 October 2007
- Time: Mo 18-20
- Place: S 2-203 (im Sporttrakt)
- Contact: Olaf Simons
Hobbes, Locke, Shaftesbury and Mandeville have become central figures of all modern debates of philosophy and society: Hobbes as the prime advocate of absolutism, Locke as the philosopher behind the American constitution, Shaftesbury became famous with the fashion of 18th-century sentimentalism, Mandeville is read today as the first proponent of what came to be known as liberalism. The debate these authors unfolded showed a strange readiness to base theories of how men should live together on new theories of knowledge. One could say they simply reacted on the scientific progress their age. The arguments they produced had, however, implications far beyond the new fields of research: they were immediately suspected of atheism and seen as attacks on the moral foundations human society rested on.
The seminar will focus on Hobbes and Locke. We will read and discuss passages of their texts to understand how they managed to reach beyond the strictly philosophical debate. Religion and politics will be of key interest here. The seminar should at the same moment provide a good background for individual explorations of 17th- and 18th-century plays, poems and novels which have been read as influenced by the philosophical debate and the enlightenment it is supposed to have spread.
Contents
Oct 22, 2007
Discussed general course outline. First aim to read Hobbes "of Man" and in a survey: "of Common-Wealth". Homework read into Leviathan up to p.17 original pagination.
Oct 29, 2007
Nov 5, 2007
Nov 12, 2007
Nov 19, 2007
Nov 28, 2007
Dec 3, 2007
Dec 10, 2007
Dec 17, 2007
Jan 7, 2007
Jan 14, 2007
Jan 21, 2007
Jan 28, 2007
Feb 4, 2007
Literature
- Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan. London, 1651. (Recomended edition: Penguin)
- John Locke. Two Treatises on Government. London, 1689.
- John Locke. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London, 1689. (I will supply materials)
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. London, 1699. (I will supply materials)
- Bernard Mandeville. Fable of the Bees. 3nd edition. London, 1724. (Recomended edition: Penguin)
