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Civilization Sequence Program
CVSP 203: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE Fall 2011-12
Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, MONDAYS, 2:00 pm |
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Date |
Lecture |
Reading Assignment |
Sept 26- 30 |
The Tempest (film) |
Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford World's Classics) pp. 93-205. |
Oct 03 - 07 |
The Tempest |
Shakespeare (continued) |
Oct 10 – 14 |
Bacon |
Bacon, The New Organon, Book One (CVSP reading selection) |
Oct 17 – 21 |
Descartes |
Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, transl. Donald A. Cress (Hackett), Discourses 1, 2, 4 & 5. |
Oct 24 – 28 |
Hobbes |
Hobbes, The Leviathan, ed. Edwin Curley (Hackett). (CVSP reading selection) |
Oct 31 – Nov 04 |
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. |
Nov 07-08 |
Al- ADHA HOLIDAY |
Nov 09– 11 |
[No lecture] |
Locke (continued) |
Nov 14 – 18 |
Enlightenment I |
Adam Smith, The wealth of nations (selections); Kant, “What is enlightenment?”; essays by Diderot and de Jaucourt (CVSP reading selection) |
Nov 21 – 25 |
Enlightenment II |
Bentham, An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (CVSP reading selection) |
Nov 28 – Dec 02 |
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. |
Dec 05 – 09 |
[No lecture]
(Ashoura Holiday) |
Kant (continued) |
Dec 12 – 16 |
Faust I |
Goethe, Faust, Part I, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), pp. 3, 9-27, 30-62, 75-77, 81-121, 140-8. |
Dec 19 – 23 |
Faust II |
Goethe, Faust, Part II, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), Act V, pp. 207-239. |
Dec 26 – Jan 01 |
Christmas and New year Vacation (Dec 24 - Jan. 01) |
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Jan 02- 06 |
[No lecture] |
Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. David McLellan (Oxford World's Classics). |
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Jan 09 – 13 |
Marx/ Engels |
Marx & Engels (continued) |