A note about these notes.  These notes are meant for general information.  It is NOT the case that everything done or said, mentioned, described, or otherwise discussed in class appears in the notes.  They are not a substitute for reading the text and participating in class.

1.  Equality - Introductory background; Plato and Aristotle and additions.
2.  Equality (2) - Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan on Natural and Social Equality.
3.  Equality (3) - Miscellaneous Notes on Hobbes relevant to the concept of equality.
4.  Equality (4) - Rousseau on the Origins of Inequality.
5.  Equality (5) - Rousseau continued; Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville
6.  Equality (6) - Marx from Critique of the Gotha Programme and Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
7.  Equality (7) - Conclusion of Section on Equality - includes Tawney, Von Hayek, Rawls, Nozick, Dworkin, Kymlicka and Young.  Omit the articles by Sen and Walzer appearing in the text.
7a.  Equality (8) - Kymlicka and Young.
8.  Thomas Paine's Rights of Man:  commentary, notes on "rights" - introductory, and from and about Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man and other works.
9.  John Stuart Mill, introductory concepts from Utilitarianism and On Liberty.
    9a.  More from On Liberty.
10. Review for the Mid-term on 10/18/2000.
11.  Notes on articles by MacDonald and Gewirth
12. Notes on articles by Mackie and Raz on Right-Based Moral Theories
13. Coming up:  Introductory notes on the concept of authority and first set of articles on authority.
    13a.  The relevant sections of Raz's book are: essays 1-3 (Wolff on the conflict between authority and autonomy, Ladenson on Hobbesian conception of law; and Friedman's explanation of the concept of authority in political philosophy [this one is very, very long]); essays 5-7 (Raz on authority and justification, Anscombe on the source of the state's authority, and Finnis' article on "Authority"); and essays 9 and 11 (Dworkin's "Obligations of Community" and Greenawalt's "Promissory Obligation:  The Theme of Social Contract").
14.  Also coming up for the end of the semester - the anthology Justice (Westphal, ed).  We have already dealt with the theories of justice of Rawls and Nozick earlier in the course, so they can be omitted from this work.  In fact, of the 13 works, what we will cover in class are:  Plato (pp. 37-73), Aristotle (pp. 73-94), Aquinas (95-114), Hume (pp. 133-148), Kant (pp. 149-156), and Mill (pp. 157-177).  Remember, however, that though Rawls and Nozick need not be read again for purposes of this section of the course, their views are certainly not irrelevant to justice.  We will end the course with (who else but) Hobbes.
14.  The final exam will be distributed in class on 12/4/2000.  It is due no later than 1:00 p.m. on December 11th at my office.  You can type it if you wish.  It can also be hand-written, but make sure that it is clearly legible.  You may turn in the final exam any time before December 11.

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