Readings

Thursday, September 22

: no reading, ﬁrst class.

Tuesday, September 27

: No class due to the second day of Rosh Hashanah.

Wednesday, September 28

: Iliad, 2.1–40; 3.275–301; 4.50–72; 4.232–239; selections from the Bible; Institutes of Justinian, 3.19; readings from the Code of Justinian; Digest of Justinian, 2.14.1–7 and 50.12.1–7.

Thursday, September 29

: Plato, Republic 1.331c–336a, Crito 49a–53a; Aristotle EN 4.7; Cicero De oﬁciis book I, ch. 7 ch. 10 and book III, ch.’s 24–32 (continued here).

Monday, October 3

: Thomas Aquinas, ST 2–2, q. 88, a.’s 1–4; q. 89 a. 2 and a.’s 7–8, q. 109 a. 1; q. 110 a.’s 3–4; also, q. 80 obj. 3 and ad 3.

Tuesday, October 4

: No class due to Yom Kippur (which begins just before sundown).

Thursday, October 6

: Cajetan, commentary to ST 2–2, q. 113; Molina, De iusticia et iure, disp.’s 262 and 266; Lessius, De iusticia et iure, book 2, ch. 17, dub. 5 James Gordley, The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine, ch. 4.

Tuesday, October 11

: No class due to the second day of Sukkot.

Wednesday, October 12

: Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 6; ch. 14 and beginning of ch. 15 (through “hath the same relation to grace that injustice hath to obligation by covenant”); Locke, Essay, 1.3.5–8; Letter concerning Toleration, paragraph beginning “Lastly”; Second Treatise, 2.14, 4.23, 16.176, 16.186, 16.195; Rousseau, The Social Contract, end of 4.8.

Thursday, October 13

: Grotius, The Laws of War and Peace, 2.11, 2.16.1–2, 2.16.20–27.

Tuesday, October 18

: No class due to Simchat Torah.

Wednesday, October 19

: Pufendorf Of the Law of Nature and Nations, 3.5–8; Wolff, Ius naturae methodo scientiﬁca pertractum, Part III, §§361 ff. (if I can ﬁnd time to translate).

Thursday, October 20

: Hume, Treatise 3.2.5; Second Enquiry, §§3, 5, and 9.2; “Of the Original Contract.”

Tuesday, October 25

: Reid, Essays on the Active Powers, Essay V, ch. 3 and ch.’s 5–6.

Thursday, October 27

: Kant, Groundwork, Ak. 4:420-425 (but especially, of course, example 2, on Ak. 4:422); Metaphysics of Morals, Doctrine of Right, §§18–21, Ak. 6:271–6; Doctrine of Virtue, §9, Ak. 6:428–31; Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” ﬁve paragraphs beginning “The other terror that scares us” (through “even if shewn in a young person”); Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, 2.1–3.

Tuesday, November 1

: Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, 2.2 (without the Appendices); 2.5.

Thursday, November 3

: Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, 3.3; 3.5, 4.4, section 2. and Appendix 2.

Tuesday, November 8

: Bentham, A Fragment on Government, 1.36–48; Mill, Utilitarianism, ch. 5.

Thursday, November 10

: Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, 3.5–6 and and 4.3.3–5.

Tuesday, November 15

: Anscombe, “On Promising and its Justice”;“On Brute Facts”; “Modern Moral Philosophy”; “Rules, Rights, and Promises.”

Thursday, November 17

: Austin, “Other Minds,” section titled “If I know I can’t be wrong”; How to Do Things with Words, lectures 1, 2, beginning of 4 (through p. 45), and beginning of 6 (through p. 73)

Tuesday, November 22

: Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules”; Theory of Justice (original edition), §§18 and 52

Thursday, November 24

: No class (Thanksgiving)

Tuesday, November 29

: Cavell, “Must We Mean What We Say?,” pp. 12–31; The Claim of Reason, ch. 11

Thursday, December 1

: David Lewis, “Scorekeeping in a Language Game”; “Languages and Language” (selections); “Utilitarianism and Truthfulness”.

Wednesday, December 7

: Final paper due.