| LEC # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction. Machiavelli, excerpt from The Prince | |
| 2 | More: excerpt from Utopia Montaigne: Of Cannibals |
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| 3 | Montaigne: Of Repentance, Of Diversion, Of Conserving the Will | |
| 4 | Montaigne: excerpt from Of Experience Shakespeare, King Lear | |
| 5 | Shakespeare: King Lear | |
| 6 | Shakespeare: King Lear | |
| 7 | Excerpts from Hobbes: Leviathan | |
| 8 | Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels, IV | |
| 9 | Jonathan Swift: (concluded) | First Paper Due (Six Pages) |
| 10 | Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality | |
| 11 | Rousseau: (concluded) | |
| 12 | Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; excerpts from The Prelude | |
| 13 | Wordsworth: (concluded) | |
| 14 | Wordsworth: (concluded) | |
| 15 | Immanuel Kant: excerpt from The Metaphysical Foundation of Morals | |
| 16 | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice | Second Paper Due (Six Pages) |
| 17 | Jane Austen (continued) | |
| 18 | Jane Austen (continued) | |
| 19 | Balzac: Père Goriot | |
| 20 | Balzac (continued) | |
| 21 | Balzac (continued) | |
| 22 | Friedrich Nietzsche, excerpts from The Geneology of Morals | |
| 23 | Nietzsche, (concluded) | |
| 24 | George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara | |
| 25 | George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara | |
| This subject does not have a final exam |
