debate. I shall provide longer reading lists for each topic and reading lists for individual essays. Week 6: What is the state? Thomas Hobbes, [many editions], Introduction and chs. 13-16. Leviathan Additional reading: Quentin Skinner, and the Purely Artificial Person of the ‘Hobbes State’, Journal of a revised version of this paper in Political Philosophy Philosophy 7(1999). There’s Skinner, vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Visions of Politics How to Write an MA Dissertation in Philosophy Study Skills Session: Week 7: The state as a means to peace and security Thomas Hobbes, [many editions] Chs. 17-19. Leviathan Additional reading: and Political Agency in the Political Theory of Julie Cooper, ‘Vainglory, Modesty, Thomas 72 (2010), 241–269. Hobbes’, The Review of Politics Week 8: The state as a means to freedom Jean Jacques Rousseau, [many editions], Book I, ch. 6 Book The Social Contract – II, ch. 6. Additional reading: Sharon R. Krause, (Princeton University Press, 2008), ch. 5. Civil Passions Week 9: The state as a means to justice John Rawls, Ch. 1, sections 1-4, ch. 2, sections 10-12. A Theory of Justice, Additional reading: Philosophy Philosophy and Social Chantalle Mouffe, ‘Political without Politics’, 13.2 (1987). Criticism, Week 10: The state as a means to exploitation Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto Additional reading:
debate. I shall provide longer reading lists for each topic and reading lists for individual essays. Week 6: What is the state? Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [many editions], Introduction and chs. 13-16. Additional reading: Quentin Skinner, ‘Hobbes and the Purely Artificial Person of the State’, Journal of Political Philosophy Philosophy 7(1999). There’s a revised version of this paper in Skinner, Visions of Politics vol. III (Cambridge University Press, 2002). Study Skills Session: How to Write an MA Dissertation in Philosophy Week 7: The state as a means to peace and security Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan [many editions] Chs. 17-19. Additional reading: Julie Cooper, ‘Vainglory, Modesty, and Political Agency in the Political Theory of Thomas Hobbes’, The Review of Politics 72 (2010), 241–269. Week 8: The state as a means to freedom Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract [many editions], Book I, ch. 6 – Book II, ch. 6. Additional reading: Sharon R. Krause, Civil Passions (Princeton University Press, 2008), ch. 5. Week 9: The state as a means to justice John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Ch. 1, sections 1-4, ch. 2, sections 10-12. Additional reading: Chantalle Mouffe, ‘Political Philosophy without Politics’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 13.2 (1987). Week 10: The state as a means to exploitation Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto Additional reading: