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DE ANZA PHIL 002 ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay contest (download information)

  • All student submissions will receive 50 points extra-credit
  • Best essays will be considered for publication in The American Future: A Student Journal of Political Science
  • The best essay chosen by The American Future Editorial Board will receive $50 cash prize

Final Exam is Friday, March 26, 1:45pm - 3:45pm (click here for De Anza's final exam schedule)

 

 DE ANZA: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES OUTLINES AND READINGS

  Week 02: Plato, Republic, Book VII: Allegory of the Cave (Outline of Entire Book)

  Week 03: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book I, Book II, Book X (Eudemonia) (Outline)

  Week 03: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book VIII, Book IX (Relationships)

  Week 04: Aristotle, Politics, Book IV: Constitutional Systems (Outline of Entire Book)

  Week 05: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch. 13, The Natural Condition (Text) (Outline)

  Week 05: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ch. 14, Laws of Nature (Text) (Outline)

  Week 05: John Locke, The Second Treatise on Government (Text) (Outline)

  Week 05: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (To Be Posted)

  Week 06: Mid-Term

  Week 07: Jeremy Bentham, On the Principle of Utility (Text)

  Week 07: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

  Week 07: Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative (Text)

  Week 09: American Political Thought: James Madison, "Federalist Paper No. 10"

  Week 09: American Political Thought: John Adams, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority, Richard Henry Lee (Text)

  Week 10: Debate: Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist on the U.S. Government

  Week 11A: Barber, Strong Democracy, Preface, 2003 edition (Text)

  Week 11A: Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 1: Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping (Text)

  Week 11A: Barber, Strong Democracy, Ch. 4: The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man (Text)

  Week 11A: Chomsky, Media Control (Text)

  Week 11A: T. Le, "Human Nature, Liberal Democracy, and Strong Democracy" (Text)

  Week 11A: Barber, Jihad vs. Mc World, Ch. 7: Television and MTV: Mc World's Noisy Soul" (Text)

  Week 11A: Barber, Consumed, Chapter 1 (Text)

  Week 11B: Review for Final Exam

  Week 12: Final Exam is on Friday, March 26, 1:45pm - 3:45pm (click here for De Anza's final exam schedule)