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Date Unit and Topic Readings (Italicized ones are optional) April 11 Contractarian and Libertarian States: Origins Due: 1 Required: * Locke, Excerpts from the First Treatise on Government (BB) * Locke, Second Treatise on Government Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, Preface and Chapters 1-5 (Links on BB) Recommended: The Introduction in our edition of Locke Commentaries: Thomas, Chapters 2-4 Chapter 3 April 13 Exam I Review Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, and Locke (Virtue Politics vs. the Social Contract) April 18 Radical Social Change I: Freedoms Required: * Rousseau, The Social Contract: Book 1, Book 2 (Chapters 1-5) Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp. 9-53, 66-70, 73-86, 104-108 Recommended: Read all of Burke to p. 108, including the introduction. Bertram, Chapter 2 Commentaries: Gildin, Chapter 2 (BB) Bertram, Chapters 3-6 April 20 Radical Social Change II: Governing the Community Required: * Rousseau, The Social Contract: Books 2 (Chapters 6- 12), 3 (Chapters 1, 3-7, 10-14, 18 only), 4 (Chapters 1, 7-8 only) Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 117-120, 139-145, 154-158, 185-191, 208-210 “A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly” (BB) Recommended: Bertram, Chapter 10 Commentaries: Gildin, Chapters 3-6 (BB) Bertram, Chapters 7-9 April 25 Modern Liberalism I: The Harm Principle Required: * Mill, On Liberty, Chapters I-II * Mill, Excerpts from “Civilization” and “Non-Intervention” (BB) O’Brien, “Edmund Burke: Prophet Against the Tyranny of the Politics of Theory” in Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Recommended: Mill, Utilitarianism: Chapters 2 and 5 Commentaries: Riley, Chapters 2-3 Skorupski (2006), Chapter 3