Testimony of jeffrey s. Lehman vice chancellor of nyu shanghai
Global Perspectives on Society – 2013-‐14
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- Global Perspectives on Society – 2013-‐14 Syllabus
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Global Perspectives on Society – 2013-‐14 Syllabus
Course Description
In this two-‐semester course, we will explore a set of timeless questions about how society is, or should be, organized, as those questions have been explored by serious writers from different times and different cultures.
Each week, students will meet once in recitation sections with Global Postdoctoral Fellows, twice in writing workshops with Writing Faculty, and once as an entire class with Professors Lehman and Romer.
The course will introduce students to writings that help to define what it means to be “well educated.” By engaging those writings, students will reflect repeatedly on several overarching questions, including how it is we know things to be “true,” whether ethical duties are universal or defined by context, and why it is certain texts have come to be thought of as “great.”
Over the course of the semester, students should enhance their abilities to read carefully and thoughtfully, to consider questions from more than one perspective, to participate in respectful and serious intellectual explorations of difficult questions, and to write essays that make effective and appropriate use of the ideas of others as they present the students’ own ideas to different audiences of readers.
50% of the grade will be determined by the Global Postdoctoral Fellows, and Professors Lehman and Romer, as follows: 15% will depend upon the first midterm examination, 15% upon the second midterm examination, and 20% upon the final examination. Examinations will be “in-‐class” and “open book.” Grades will reflect how well students are able to integrate an understanding of the readings and the general course themes into their responses to short-‐answer and essay questions.
550% of the grade will be determined by the writing faculty, who will assess your writing exercises, final essay assignments, and class participation. See your Writing Workshop syllabus for more information
Students will be penalized in their grades if they fail to attend the large class, recitation sections, or writing workshops, or if they present the ideas or words of others as their own without proper attribution.
Global Perspectives on Society – Final Syllabus 2013-‐14 p. 2
1. Strangers and Strangers (9/4) a. “37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” (The New York Times, Mar. 27, 1964)
b. “China’s Bystander Effect” (The New Yorker, Oct. 18, 2011) c. “The Murder They Heard” (Milgram & Hollander, The Nation, June 15, 1964).
2. Strangers and Strangers (9/11) a. Plato, Laws (c. 360 BC) ¶¶ 949-‐951. b. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), §§ 4:420-‐4:423, 4:427-‐4:431. c. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) Ch. IV. d. Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) ¶¶ I.I.1-‐3.
3. Strangers and Strangers (9/18) a. Mozi, “Universal Love” (c. 400 BC). b. Mencius, “No Man is Devoid of a Heart Sensitive to the Suffering of Others” (c. 300 BC). c. Xunzi, “Man’s Nature is Evil” (c. 250 BC).
[Midterm 1] 4. Property, Labor, and Economic Exchange (9/25) a. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689), Second Treatise, Ch. V, ¶¶ 25-‐34, 45-‐47. b. Sima Qian, “The Biographies of the Money Makers” (c. 100 BC). c. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), pp. 505-‐15 (Kramnick ed.).
5. Property, Labor, and Economic Exchange (10/9) a. Plato, The Republic (c. 380 BC), Part IV, Book 3, Sections 2-‐3. b. The Analects of Confucius (c. 400 BC), Book 16. "No Worry for Little, Yet Worry for Uneven Apportionment." c. Karl Marx, Wage Labor & Capital; and Capital, Vol. I (1867), pp. 203-‐18, 351-‐61 (M-‐E Reader). d. Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) Ch. IX.
6. Property, Labor, and Economic Exchange (10/16) a. Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944), ch. 4. b. Robert Nozick, Anarchy State & Utopia (1974), pp. 149-‐182. c. Deng Xiaoping, “Excerpts from Talks Given in Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Shanghai” (1992).
Global Perspectives on Society – Final Syllabus 2013-‐14 p. 3
7. Sovereignty, Law, and Rights (10/23) a. Zisi, “The Doctrine of the Mean” (c. 420 BC), selected sections. b. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (c. 330 BC), Book VIII, Chs. 9-‐11. c. Jean Bodin, Six Livres de la Republique (1576), Book I, Ch. 8. d. Peter the Great, Pravda Voli Monarshei (1722), Ch. 15.
[Midterm 2] 8. Sovereignty, Law, and Rights (10/30) a. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651), chs. XIII, XIV, XVII. b. Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (1748), Book II, Chs. I-‐V. c. Jean-‐Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) Book 1, Chs. 6-‐8.
9. Sovereignty, Law, and Rights (11/6) a. Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace (1625), Book I, Ch. 1. b. Liang Qichao, “On Rights Consciousness” (1902). c. Woodrow Wilson, ”Fourteen Points” (1914).
10. Races, Ethnic Communities, and Nations (11/13) a. Ernest Renan, “What Is a Nation?” (1882). b. Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963), pp. 148-‐162. c. Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963).
11. Races, Ethnic Communities, and Nations (11/20) a. Li Jing, “The Customs of Various Barbarians” (c. 1300). b. Wang Fuzhi, “The Preservation of Chinese Political and Cultural Integrity” (c. 1670). c. Kang Youwei, “Abolishing National Boundaries and Uniting the World” (1935, based on lectures in 1884).
12. War, Collective Violence, and International Relations (11/27) a. Sun Zi, The Art of War [selections] (c. 500 BC), Ch’s 1-‐4. b. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274), Part 2, Q. 40. c. Carl von Clausewitz, On War (1832), Ch. 1.
13. War, Collective Violence, and International Relations (12/4) a. Mozi, “The Condemnation of War” (c. 400 BC). b. Leo Tolstoy, “Letter to a Noncommissioned Officer” (1898). c. Mohandas Gandhi, “On Passive Resistance” (1938).
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