Calendar

LEC # TOPICS
1 Luther. On Governmental Authority.

Calvin. The Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Protestant Church Architecture. (In-class viewing)
2 Galileo. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina."
3 Descartes. "Discourse Concerning Method."
4 Descartes. "Meditations on First Philosophy."
5 Hobbes. Leviathan.
6 Kant. "What is Enlightenment?"

Kant. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals.

Architecture of Schinkel. (In-class viewing)
7 Hume. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.

Music of Bach. (In-class sampling)
8 Hegel. "Independence and Dependence of Self-consciousness."
9 Rousseau. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.

Goethe. Elective Affinities.
10 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.

Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France.
11 Preface to the French Constitution of 1793.

Sieyès. "What is the Third Estate?"

Paintings of David and Goya. (In-class viewing)
12 Wajda. Danton. (In-class viewing)
13 Smith. The Wealth of Nations.
14 Marx. Manifesto of the Communist Party.

Marx. The German Ideology.
15 Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents.