Civilization Sequence Program

CVSP 203: READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE  Fall 2008-09

Bathish Auditorium, West Hall, MONDAYS, 2:00 pm

Date

Lecture

Reading Assignment

Sept 29 – Oct 3

Introduction

Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford World's Classics) pp. 93-205.

Oct 6-10

The Tempest

Shakespeare (continued)  plus film The Tempest, with Richard Burton as Caliban

Oct 13-17

Bacon

Bacon, The New Organon, Book One (CVSP reading selection)

Oct 20-24

Descartes

Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, transl. Donald A. Cress (Hackett), Discourses 1, 2, 4 & 5.

Oct 27-31

Hobbes

Hobbes, The Leviathan, ed. Edwin Curley (Hackett).  (CVSP reading selection)

Nov 3-7

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 10-14

No lecture

No new assignment

Nov 17-21

Adam Smith

Adam Smith, The wealth of nations, (CVSP reading selection)

Nov 24-28

Bentham

Bentham, An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (CVSP reading selection) and Kant, “What is enlightenment?” (CVSP reading selection)

Dec 1-5

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 8-12

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 15-19

Faust II

Goethe, Faust, Part II, tr. David Luke (Oxford World's Classics), Act V, pp. 207-239.

Mon Dec 22

- Tues 23 Dec

No lecture

No new assignment

Wed Dec 24

- Wed Jan 7

                Christmas and New Year vacation (Dec 24 – Jan 7)

Thurs Jan 8

-Fri Jan 9

No lecture

No new assignment

Jan 12-16

Marx/ Engels

Marx & Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. David McLellan (Oxford World's Classics).

Jan 19-23

Mill

J.S. Mill, On Liberty in On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics), pp. 5-22, 26-30, 59-67, 75-82 and 88-103.