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Civilization Sequence Program
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CVSP 203: The Making of the Modern World
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READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Spring 2012-13
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Common Lectures: Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, Tuesdays, 2 pm |
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Lecture |
Reading assignment for class discussions |
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Unit One - Science (Main readings: Bacon and Descartes) |
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Jan. 28- Feb. 1 |
No Lecture |
Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, transl. Donald A. Cress (Hackett), Discourses 1, 2, 4 & 5. |
Feb. 4 – 8 |
Descartes |
(no new assignments) |
Feb. 11 – 15 |
Bacon |
Bacon, The New Organon, Book One (CVSP reading selection) |
Feb. 18 – 22 |
No Lecture |
(no new assignments) |
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Content Reading for Unit One: Selections from Descartes’ Letters, Galileo’s Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems and the correspondence of Cardinal Belarmine (CVSP readings selection) |
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Unit Two - Law and Morality (Main readings: Hobbes, Locke, & Kant) |
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Feb. 25 – Mar. 1 |
Hobbes |
Hobbes, The Leviathan, ed. Edwin Curley (Hackett). (CVSP reading selection) |
Mar. 4 – 8 |
Locke |
Locke , The Second Treatise on Government, ed. C. B. Macpherson (Hackett), Ch1 §2-3; Ch2 §4, 6-8,14; Ch3 §16-19; Ch4, Ch5 §26-8, 31-2, 36, 40, 47-50; Ch7 §87-91, 93; Ch8 §95-7, 99, 119-120; Ch9; Ch11 §135; Ch12; Ch13 §149-153; Ch15 §172; Ch19 §221-2, 224-8, 232. |
Mar. 11 – 15 |
Kant |
Kant , Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Hackett), Preface: last two paragraphs (p. 5); First Section: p. 7 and bottom of p. 9 (beginning “The concept of a will estimable in itself…”) to bottom of p. 15; Second section: p. 19, bottom of p. 23 (beginning “Everything in nature works according to laws…”) to middle of p. 26, bottom of p. 29 (“if I think of a hypothetical imperative…”) to middle of p. 30, and near the top of p. 35 (“The will is thought of as a …”) to bottom of p. 41. |
Mar. 18 – 22 |
No Lecture |
(no new assignments) |
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Content Reading for Unit Two: Frontispiece to The Leviathan |
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Unit Three - Enlightenment I (Main readings: Kant) |
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Mar. 26 – 28 |
Kant |
Kant, “What is Enlightenment?” (CVSP reading selection) |
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Content Reading for Unit Three: Essay by Diderot (CVSP reading selection) |
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Unit Four - Enlightenment II (Main readings: al-Afghani) |
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Mar. 29 – Apr. 1 |
LATIN EASTER VACATION |
Apr. 2 – 5 |
al-Afghani |
al-Afghani, An Islamic Response to Imperialism (CVSP Reading selection) |
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Content Reading for Unit Four: al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris (CVSP Reading selection) |
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Unit Five - Counter-Enlightenment & Romanticism (Main readings: Goethe) |
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Apr. 8 – 12 |
Goethe |
Goethe, Faust, Part I, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), pp. 3, 9-27, 30-62, 75-77, 81-121, 140-8;
Faust, Part II, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), Act V, pp. 207-239. |
Apr. 15 – 19 |
No Lecture |
(no new assignments) |
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Unit Six - Political Economy (Main readings: Marx & Engels) |
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Apr. 22 – 26 |
Marx & Engels |
Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. David McLellan (Oxford World's Classics). |
Apr. 29 – May 2 |
No Lecture |
(no new assignments) |
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Content Reading for Unit six: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (CVSP Reading selection) |
May 3 – 6 |
GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER VACATION |
May 7 – 10 |
No Lecture |
(no new assignments) |
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