Human Rights Seminar: Spring 2007

Reading & Exam Schedule

 

Date

 

 Text      

Précis

01/11

Introductory Tidbits

 

 

01/16

Lukes: Five Fables about Human Rights

HR

01/18

Feinberg: “The Concept of Freedom” (Chapter 1)

SP

Rights before “Human Rights”

01/23

Plato: The Republic

HR

 

Epictectus: Discourses

HR

 

 

St. Paul: The New Testament

HR

 

01/25

Magna Carta

HR

 

Aquinas: Summa Theologica

HR

 

 

de las Casas: In Defense of the Indians

HR

 

Liberalism and the Enlightenment

01/30

Feinberg: “Grounds for Coercion” & “Hard Cases …” (Chapters 2 & 3)

SP

02/06

Free Expression & Religious Oppression

 

 

Milton: Areopegitica

 

 

Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration

 

 

Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration

 

 

Voltaire: On Religion”

 

02/08

Punishment & the Right o Life

 

 

Hobbes: Leviathan

HR

 

 

Habeas Corpus Act (1671)

HR

 

 

English Bill of Rights (1689)

HR

 

 

Beccaria: Treatise on Crimes and Punishments

HR

 

02/13

The Right to Property

 

 

Locke: The Second Treatise of the State of Nature

HR

 

 

Rousseau: On the Geneva Manuscript

HR

 

 

Winstanley: “Declaration from the Poor Oppressed of England

 

 

Robespierre: “On Property Rights”

HR

 

02/15

To Be a Citizen

 

Goode

 

Declaration of Independence

HR

 

 

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens

HR

 

 

Kant: Perpetual Peace

HR

 

 

Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals

HR

 

02/20

Rights for Whom?

 

McShane

 

Paine: “African Slavery in America

HR

 

 

Paine: The Rights of Man

HR

 

 

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

HR

 

The Industrial Revolution & the Socialist Response

02/22

Feinberg: “Legal Rights” & “Conflicts of Legal Rights” (Chapters 4 & 5)

SP

02/27

Marx & Engels: Communist Manifesto (parts1,2,4)

03/1

Economic and Social Rights

 

Goode

 

Proudhon: What is property?

HR

 

 

Marx: Critique of the Gotha Program

HR

 

 

Marx: The Universal Suffrage

HR

 

 

Trotsky: Their Morals and Ours

HR

 

03/6

FreeTrade and Class Warfare

 

Cox

 

Kautsky: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

HR

 

 

Luxemburg: The Janius Pamphlet (Chapters 1, 8)

 

 

Marx: On the Possibility of a Non-Violent Revolution

HR

 

 

Marx: Letter to Lincoln

 

03/8

For whom?

 

Whitworth

 

Bebel: Women and Socialism

HR

 

 

Engels: Origins of the Family

HR

 

 

Marx: Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association

HR

 

 

Proudhon: Principle of Federalism

HR

 

03/13

Exam #1

Decolonization & Institutionalized International Human Rights

03/15

Locke: Of the Dissolution of Government

HR

Hoke

 

Luxemburg: The Nat’l Question and Autonomy

HR