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1 Introduction
SYLLABUS
2 Plato, Apology (PDF)

3 Plato, Crito (PDF)

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4 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics (PDF)

READINGS 5 Aristotle, Politics (PDF)

6 Aristotle, Politics (cont.) (PDF)

LECTURE NOTES
7 Machiavelli, The Prince (PDF)

ASSIGNMENTS 8 Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy (PDF)

9 Machiavelli, The Discourses on Livy (cont.) (PDF)

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10 Hobbes, Leviathan (PDF)
MATERIALS
11 Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) (PDF)

12 Hobbes, Leviathan (cont.) (PDF)

13 Locke, Second Treatise (PDF)

14 Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) (PDF)

15 Locke, Second Treatise (cont.) (PDF)

16 Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (PDF)

17 Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality (cont.) (PDF)

18 Rousseau, Social Contract (PDF)

19 Rousseau, Social Contract (cont.) (PDF)

20 Marx, "On the Jewish Question," and "1844 Manuscripts" (PDF)

21 Marx, Communist Manifesto and Selections from Capital (PDF)

22 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (PDF)

23 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cont.) (PDF)

24 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (cont.)

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25 Concluding Lecture
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