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Reading Assignments

TERM 3 AND 4
THE RENAISSANCE AND BEFORE

Sermon on the Mount
Machiavelli-The Prince
Hugo Grotius Biography
Hugo Grotius Philosophy

THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Descartes Philosophy
Descartes-Discourse on Method
British Empiricism
The Enlightenment
Introduction to Hobbes and Locke
Hobbes vs. Locke Debate
Locke-Hobbes Comparative Table
Locke-Two Treatises on Government
Locke-Letter on Toleration
Hume-Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Montesquieu-Spirit of Laws
Voltaire-On Toleration
Rousseau Background
Rousseau-Discourse on Inequality
Rousseau-The Social Contract
Burke-Reflections on the Revolution in France
19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
Mill-On Liberty
Omelas
PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS
Term 1 Readings
Term 2 Readings