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Course Timeline
This timeline includes all course assignments. Readings should be finished
by the first date on which they will be discussed. Any dates that are
underlined and blue provide links to lecture materials. Click on the date
to recieve the lecture notes for that date. These notes are primarily
my own notes from which I lecture. Most of them have not been refined
for student consumption. Occasionally there is new material for students
who had trouble following lecture or discussion to review the material
and offer further food for thought.
Introduction (8/29)
Unit One: Divine
Genealogies
Week 1 (9/3 & 9/5): Moses, Paul,
and Aquinas.
Read Genesis 1-3 & Exodus 1-21, Deuteronomy 1-6. Romans 1-3.
St. Thomas on Natural Law. (On
Reserve)
Unit Two: Enlightenment
Genealogies
Week 2 (9/10 & 9/12): Introduction
and Mandeville.
Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the Bees. (On
Reserve)
Week 3 (9/17 & 9/19): Rousseau
I
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Origin of Inequality.
(You should also start reading the selections from Emile on reserve)
Week 4 (9/24 & 9/26): Rousseau
II.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, selections from Emile and The Social Contract (On
Reserve).
Week 5 (10/1 & 10/3): Smith I.
David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature (On
Reserve)
Adam Smith, A Theory of Moral Sentiments, pp. 5 - 66.
Week 6 (10/8 & 10/10): Smith II.
Adam Smith, A Theory of Moral Sentiments, pp. 67-134, 161-70.
Week 7 (10/15 & 10/17): Kant.
Immanuel Kant, "Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History"
(On Reserve).
(You should also review the Groundwork, parts I and II.)
Unit Three: Postmodern
Genealogies
Week 8 (10/22 & 10/24): Darwin I
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man. (On
Reserve)
Week 9 (10/29 &10/31): Darwin II
Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, pp. 454-510. (On
Reserve)
Week 10 (11/5 & 11/7): Freud I
Sigmund Freud, selections on
reserve.
Week 11 (11/12 & 11/14): Freud II
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents.
Week 12 (11/26 & 11/28): Nietzsche I.
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals.
Week 13 (12/3, 12/5): Nietzsche II.
Michel Foucault, "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" and "On
the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of a Work in Progress." (On
Reserve)
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