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Lecturer(s)
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Miller Jaroslav, prof. Mgr. M.A., Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Anonymous autor, Vindiciae contra tyrannos 2. Jean Bodin, On sovereignty 3. Robert Filmer, Patriarcha 4. John Barclay, Argenis 5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 6. James Harrington, Oceana 7. Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees 8. David Hume, On Luxury 9. Charles Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws 10. Césare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments 11. J. J. Rousseau, The Social Contract 12. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The seminar will be concerned with great early modern thinkers (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Bodin, Locke, Vico, Bacon, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Burke, B. Mandeville, Hume, etc.) and their contribution to both ideologies of the 16th - 19th century and emerging social sciences. Due to absence of some texts in Czech a good command of English is presupposed.
a good orientation of the early modern social and pol. thought
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Prerequisites
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a good command of English
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance
activity in seminar reading essay
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Recommended literature
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O'Brien, Karen. Narratives of Enlightenment.
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Plamentatz, John. Man and Society - Political and Social Theories from Machiavelli to Marx, I - II.
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Skinner, Quentin. The foundations of modern political thought I - II.
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