Philosophy 556
From Hobbes to Rousseau

Courses

UGC 111
World Civilization:
(to 1500 CE)

PHI 348
Pop Culture and Philosophy

PHI 380
19th Century Philosophy: Kant to Nietzsche

PHI 556
From Hobbes to Rousseau

Course Description

Course Requirements

Thematic Outline 1 (Hobbes to Adam Smith)

Thematic Outline 2 (Descartes to Rousseau)

Lecture outlines:

Lecture outline 1: Jan 20: Morality and the Modern Science of Motion

Lecture outline 2: Jan 27: Hobbes' Freedom as the Realization of Desires

Lecture outline 3: Feb 3: Leviathan: the Making of a Mortal God

4: Feb 10 Locke, Underlaborer of the New Sciences

5: Feb 17 Locke on Freedom

6: Feb 24 From Berkeley to Hume

7: March 3 Hume's Science of the Passions

8-9: March 10 Adam Smith

8) The Invisible Hand

9) The Contradictions of Economic Life

8-9) Adam Smith Combined

10) March 24 Descartes' I think

11) March 31 God and the Good Society

12) April 7 Leibniz Universalizes Freedom

Descartes (Summary)

13) April 14 Best of All Possible Worlds

14) April 21 Kant's Progress from Leibniz to Pope to Rousseau

15 April 28 Rousseau's Reasoning of the Heart