V. THE POLITICAL SWEEP OF THE MODERN PROJECT: HOBBES
A. Required Readings:
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1-15 [MORGAN: 581-646]
Secondary Literature: read one of the following
Etienne Gilson and Thomas Langan, Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (New York: Random House, 1963), pp. 45-54.
Frederick Copleston, S.J., A History of Philosophy, Vol V (New York: Image, 1963), pp. 1-51.
James Collins, History of European Philosophy (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1954) pp. 101-137.
B. Writing Assignment:
Write a 5 page paper on the following theme: The passionate nature of human beings and structure and aim of civil society.
C. Supplemental Readings:
Pierre Manent,. 1995. An Intellectual History of Liberalism. Princeton: Princeton University, 1995. pp. 20-38.
Thomas Prufer. "Notes on Nature." Recapitulations. Washington D.C.: Catholic University, 1993. pp.22-26.
Leo Strauss. Natural Right and History. Chicago: Univ Chicago Press, 1953. pp. 166-201.
Richard Tuck. Hobbes. New York: Oxford, 1989.
Laurence Berns., "Thomas Hobbes" in History of Political Philosophy, eds. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 396-420.
C. B. Macpherson. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
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