First Year Seminar
Here are the links for the readings in class:
The Laws of Hammurabi (feel free to ignore the encyclopedia entry and go straight for the code. Do read the encyclopedia entry, though, if you have the time)
The Laws of Manu (read books I, II, V for first session and VIII, IX, X for second session)
Confucius, Analects (selections)
Confucius, Analects (further selections)
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (selections)
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (further selections)
Han Fei, Legalism (selections)
Han Fei, Legalism (further selections)
Herodotus, History (Book II, The Egytpians for first session; Book IV, The Scythians for second session)
Plato, Republic
For first session: Republic III: Education of the Guardian II; Lifestyle of the Guardians I; Republic IV: Justice in the City & in the Individual. For second session: Republic V: Plato's Radical Politics; Philosopher-Kings I
Aristotle, Politics (on slavery and women)
Tacitus, Germania
The Hebrew Bible, Genesis 1-4 and 6-12
The New Testament, Romans 1-6; Galatians 1-5
Additional Reading: Deuteronomy, 1-4
Augustine, City of God, Book XIX
De Sepulveda, Democrates Alter
de Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies
Machiavelli, The Discourses, Book 1: Chs. 1-13, 18, 21, 32, 34, 53-55, 58
Hobbes, Leviathan, Chs. 13, 14, 17-31
Locke, Letter Concerning Toleration
De Gobineau, On the Inequality of Human Races (available outside my office, or will be distributed in class)