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c. Epstein, Richard A. “The Next Rights Revolution?” The National Review. 8
November 1999. Pp. 44-‐46.
d. Siebert, Charles. “The Rights of Man ... and Beast." New York Times
Magazine Apr 27 2014. Pp. 28,33, 49-‐50, 53-‐54. Downloaded from
ProQuest 2 June 2014.
14. Conclusion (12/8)
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Weekly Assignments
Spring 2015
1. Equality (1/26)
a. James Fishkin, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family (1983), pp. 1-‐10,
22-‐23, 30-‐32, 35-‐36, 39-‐41 (to skim).
2. Gender Equity, Part I (2/2) (Guest Catharine MacKinnon).
a. John
Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869) (excerpts).
b. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929), chapter 3.
c. Kate Millettt, Sexual Politics (1970), chapter 2.
d. Li Xiaojiang, The Progress of Humanity and Women’s Liberation (1983).
3. Gender Equity, Part II (2/9) (Guest Catharine MacKinnon)
a. Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood (1976), chapter 9.
b. Andrea Dworkin, Right-‐Wing Women (1978), chapter 6.
c. John Stoltenberg, Refusing To Be a Man (1989), chapter 2.
d. Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law,
(1987), Introduction.
e. Catharine Mackinnon, “Sex Equality in Global Perspective” (2015).
4. Systems of Belief (3/2)
a. Aristotle, Metaphysics Book 12.
b. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1993), excerpts from
Chapter 4.
5. Religion and Science, Part I (3/11) (Guest David Hollinger).
a. The Bible, Genesis, Chapters 1-‐9 (King James Version).
b. Richard Elliott Friedman, Who Wrote the Bible? (1987), pp. 54-‐59 (The
Flood, distinguishing J and E text).
c. Benjamin Jowett, selections from Essays and Reviews (1860).
d. The Bible, John, Chapter 8, verses 2-‐11 (King James Version).
6. Religion and Science, Part II (3/16) (Guest David Hollinger).
a. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, concluding pages (1859).
b. William James, The Will to Believe (1896).
c. International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, The Chicago Statement on
Biblical Inerrancy (1978).
d. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 500 F. Supp. 2d 707 (M.D. Pa.
2005), Section 4 and Conclusion.
e. Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, “One Side Can Be Wrong,” The Guardian
(September 1, 2005).
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7. The Individual and Property (3/23)
a. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
(1651), chs. XIII, XIV, XVII.
b. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689), Second Treatise, Ch. V,
¶¶ 25-‐34, 45-‐47.
8. Capitalism, Communism, and Contradiction (3/27)
a. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776), pp. 505-‐15 (Kramnick ed.).
b. Karl Marx, Wage Labor and Capital; and Capital, Vol. I (1867), pp. 203-‐18,
351-‐61 (M-‐E Reader).
c. Mao Zedong, On Contradiction (1937).
9. Midterm Examination (3/30)
10. Relativism (4/13) (Guest Anthony Appiah)
a. Bernard Williams, “The Truth in Relativism,” Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society Vol. 75 (1975), pp. 215-‐228.
b. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Relativism and Cross Cultural Understanding,”
in Michael Krausz (ed.), Relativism (2010), pp. 488-‐500.
11. Global Citizenship (4/17) (Guest Anthony Appiah)
a. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Education for Global Citizenship,” chapter 6 of
Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Vol. 107,
Issue 1, 2008).
b. The Hong Kong Curriculum Development Council, Moral and National
Education: Curriculum Guide, excerpts (April 2012).
c. Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Presentation” at Conference on Moral and
National Education at Hong Kong University (from author)
(2012).
12. The Twenty-‐First Century, Part I (4/24)
a. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-‐First Century (2014) (translated by
Arthur Goldhammer), chapter 7.
b. Prabhat Patnaik, “Capitalism, Inequality, and Globalization: Thomas
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-‐First Century (conference paper 2014),
http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/images/INET_docs/publication
s/2014/Patnaik_paper1_PikettySymposium.pdf.
13. The Twenty-‐First Century, Part II (5/4)
a. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age (2014),
chapters 6-‐9.
b. Hazel Henderson, “Review of ‘The Second Machine Age’,” Seeking Alpha
(April 4, 2014), http://seekingalpha.com/article/2126193-‐review-‐of-‐the-‐
second-‐machine-‐age.
14. Conclusion (5/11)