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Human Rights Seminar: Spring 2007 Reading & Exam Schedule |
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01/11 |
Introductory Tidbits |
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01/16 |
Lukes:
Five Fables about Human Rights |
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01/18 |
Feinberg:
“The Concept of Freedom” (Chapter 1) |
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Rights before “Human Rights” |
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01/23 |
Plato:
The Republic |
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Epictectus:
Discourses |
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01/25 |
Magna
Carta |
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Aquinas:
Summa Theologica |
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de
las Casas: In Defense of the Indians |
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Liberalism and the Enlightenment |
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01/30 |
Feinberg:
“Grounds for Coercion” & “Hard Cases …” (Chapters 2 & 3) |
SP |
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02/06 |
Free Expression & Religious Oppression |
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Locke:
A Letter Concerning Toleration |
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Voltaire:
A Treatise on Toleration |
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Voltaire:
“On Religion” |
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02/08 |
Punishment & the Right o Life |
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Hobbes:
Leviathan |
HR |
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Habeas
Corpus Act (1671) |
HR |
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English
Bill of Rights (1689) |
HR |
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Beccaria:
Treatise on Crimes and Punishments |
HR |
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02/13 |
The Right to Property |
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Locke:
The Second Treatise of the State of |
HR |
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Rousseau:
On the |
HR |
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Winstanley:
“Declaration from the Poor Oppressed of |
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Robespierre:
“On Property Rights” |
HR |
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02/15 |
To Be a Citizen |
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Declaration
of |
HR |
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Declaration
of the Rights of Man and Citizens |
HR |
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Kant:
Perpetual Peace |
HR |
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Kant:
The Metaphysics of Morals |
HR |
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02/20 |
Rights for Whom? |
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Paine:
“African Slavery in |
HR |
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Paine:
The Rights of Man |
HR |
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Wollstonecraft:
A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
HR |
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The Industrial Revolution &
the Socialist Response |
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02/22 |
Feinberg:
“Legal Rights” & “Conflicts of Legal Rights” (Chapters 4 & 5) |
SP |
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02/27 |
Marx
& Engels: Communist Manifesto
(parts1,2,4) |
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03/1 |
Economic and Social Rights |
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Proudhon: What is property? |
HR |
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Marx: Critique of the |
HR |
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Marx: The Universal Suffrage |
HR |
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Trotsky: Their Morals and Ours |
HR |
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03/6 |
FreeTrade and Class Warfare |
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Kautsky:
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat |
HR |
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Luxemburg:
The Janius Pamphlet (Chapters 1, 8) |
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Marx: On
the Possibility of a Non-Violent Revolution |
HR |
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Marx:
Letter to |
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03/8 |
For whom? |
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Bebel:
Women and Socialism |
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Engels:
Origins of the Family |
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Marx:
Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association |
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Proudhon: Principle of Federalism |
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03/13 |
Exam #1 |
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Decolonization &
Institutionalized International Human Rights |
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03/15 |
Locke: Of
the Dissolution of Government |
HR |
Hoke |
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Luxemburg:
The Nat’l Question and Autonomy |
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Mill: Considerations on Representative Government |
HR |
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03/20 |
Covenant
of the |
HR |
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Dewey:
Means and Ends |
HR |
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HR |
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UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
HR |
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HR |
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03/22 |
Fanon: The Wretched of the
Earth |
HR |
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Gandhi: An
Appeal to the Nation |
HR |
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Gandhi:
Equal Distribution through Nonviolence |
HR |
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Gandhi:
Means and Ends |
HR |
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Gandhi: Passive Resistance |
HR |
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03/27- 03/29
Spring |
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The Age of Globalization |
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04/3 |
Feinberg:
“Human Rights” & “Social Justice” (Chapters 6 & 7) |
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04/5 |
McShane: Sport and Human Rights Read: Athletes & Human
Rights ( |
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04/10 |
Murfin: Rights and Visual Artists Follow Gort for
links → Klaatu barada nikto → |
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04/12 |
Guzzardi: The International Criminal Court AMICC: #1: Basic
Facts About the International Criminal Court; #2: The ICC: A Case
for Conservatives; #3: http://www.amicc.org/docs/Case%20for%20Conservatives.pdf;
John R.
Bolton: The
Risks and Weaknesses of the International Criminal Court from America’s
Perspective |
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04/17 |
Hoke: The Case of
Tibet |
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04/19 |
Cox: Just War (Waltzer & Luban articles in HR) |
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04/24 |
Whitworth: Gay Rights & Same-Sex Marriage (articles distributed in
class; Mohr article in HR) |
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04/26 |
Assignment: Go outside, play in
the sun & prep for finals |
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05/3 |
Exam #2 (11:00 -1:00) |
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HR: |
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