Western Civilization II
Professor Knight
Spring Semester 2007 |
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Document
Schedule
Members of
each group should complete a worksheet responding to the following
documents by the following dates.
All documents are available on the course web site.
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| Group I:
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
Samuel Smiles, Self Help
Paul Valery, On European Civilization
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Due date:
Feb 1
March 1
April 3 |
| Group II:
Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
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Feb 1
March 1
April 3 |
| Group III
Descartes, Discourse on Method
Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
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Feb 1
March 1
April 3 |
Group IV
Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws, 1748
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Adolph Hitler, Selections from Mein Kampf
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Feb 1
March 1
April 3 |
| Group V
Rousseau, The Social Contract
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German Nation
John Maynard Keynes, On the Economic Consequences of the Peace
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Feb 1
March 1
April 3
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