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Political Philosophy: Hobbes to Human Rights introduces early modern and modern political philosophy. The course provides a solid grounding in the content of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, and Harriet Taylor Mill's Enfranchisement of Women. Attention is also given to the political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels.

Unit 1: Re-Ordering Political Philosophy: The Individual

Nickel, James. (2014). Human rights. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive, (Winter 2014 ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/rights-human

Unit 2: Hobbes on Human Nature

The School of Life (Producer). (2015, July 30). Political theory—Thomas Hobbes [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i4jb5XBX5s
Hobbes, Thomas. (1998). The leviathan or the matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill [ebook version]. Hamilton, ON: McMaster University Archive of the History of Economic Thought. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=2001972
Sreedhar, Susanne. (2012). Hobbes on ‘The Woman Question.’ Philosophy Compass, 7(11), pp. 772-781. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00519.x
Arnhart, L. (2014, January 19). Hobbes's Pictures of Leviathan and Liberty. Darwinian conservatism. Retrieved from http://darwinianconservatism.blogspot.ca/2014/01/hobbess-pictures-of-leviathan-and.html

Unit 3: Hobbes on Civil Society

Unit 4: Locke: An Overview

Locke, John. (1982). Second treatise of government: An essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil government [ebook version]. Richard Cox (Ed.). Somerset, US: Wiley-Blackwell.

Unit 5: Locke's Politics

Unit 6: Rousseau

The School of Life. (Producer). (2015, August 14). Political theory—Jean–Jacques Rousseau [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81KfDXTTtXE
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques. (1994). Discourse on political economy and the social contract (C. Betts, Trans.) [ebook version]. Cary, GB: Oxford Paperbacks. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10485520

Unit 7: The Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft

Tinline, Phil (Producer). (2009, December 31). Wollstonecraft [Radio series episode]. In In Our Time. London: BBC Radio 4. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pg5dr
Wollstonecraft, Mary. (1999). A vindication of the rights of woman [ebook version]. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/reader.action?docID=10464196&ppg=8&ticket=ST-460521-hiHRCcoWpBreYCI6VCb2-cas

Unit 8: Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill

Maw, Natasha (Producer). (2006, May 18). Mill [Radio series episode]. In In Our Time. London: BBC Radio 4. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c1cx
Mill, John Stuart. (2000). Chapter IV: Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual. In On liberty [ebook version] (pp. 106–132). London: ElecBook. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/reader.action?docID=10015071&ppg=104
Mill, John Stuart, & Taylor Mill, Harriet. (2009). The subjection of women [ebook version]. Auckland: The Floating Press. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10801700
Taylor Mill, Harriet. (1994). Enfranchisement of Women. In A. P. Robson & J. M. Robson (Eds.), Sexual equality: Writings by John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill, and Helen Taylor [ebook version]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/reader.action?docID=10219271&ppg=215

Unit 9: Marx and Engels

The School of Life. (Producer). (2015, December 19). Political Theory—Karl Marx [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc
Taylor, Charlie (Producer). (2005, July 14). Marx [Radio series episode]. In In Our Time. London: BBC Radio 4. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9jg
Marx, Karl, & Engels, Frederick. (2012). The communist manifesto [ebook version]. J. C. Isaac (Ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10570991
Engels, Friedrick. (2001). The origin of the family, private property, and the state [ebook version]. London: ElecBook. Retrieved from http://0-site.ebrary.com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca/detail.action?docID=10015065

Unit 10: Human Rights

Unit 11: Conclusion: Re-Visioning Continues

Assignment 3

Nadeau, C.-E. Mary Wollstonecraft

Turner, L. Dualism in social contract theory.