Robert Webking

Texts and Course Outline

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Sophocles, Antigone

Plato, Apology of Socrates

Plato, Crito

Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

OUTLINE AND READING ASSIGNMENTS

A. The Individual and the Political Community

I. Sophocles, Antigone

II. Plato, Apology

A. Aristotle, Politics , Book III, chs I - IV, pp. 1274b32 - 1277b33 (optional)

B. The Importance and Limits of Politics

III. Plutarch, "Lycurgus"

IV. Plato, Crito

A. Aristotle, Politics, Books I and III (optional)

D. Foundations of the American Regime

V.. The Declaration of Independence

VI. The Federalist Papers, numbers 1, 6, 23, 10

VII. The Federalist Papers, number 51

VIII. The Federalist Papers, numbers 37, 49,

IX. Tocqueville, Democracy in America

  • Social Condition of the Anglo-Americans.

    Of the Taste for Physical Well-being in America.Of Individualism in Democratic Countries.Why Democratic Nations Show a more Ardent and Enduring Love of Equality than of Liberty.Philosophical Method of The Americans.Why the Americans are more Addicted to Practical rather than Theoretical Science. How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood.General Survey of the Subject,

    What are the Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government?

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