History and Political Thought

From The Inferno

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[edit] First Semester

1. Herodotus - THe History(1.1-91, 3.38, 3.61-89, 6.94-140, 7.1-60, 7.99-124, 7.133-152, 7.172-175, 7.201-239, 8.1-26, 8.50-125)
2. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War(1 (entire), 2.34-65, 3.1-28, 3.36-50, 3.69-85, 5.84-116, 6.1, 6.8-52, 6.94-105, 7 (entire)
3. Plato - Republic
4. Aristotle - Politics (1, 2.1-5, 3, 4.1-13, 5.1-5, 5.8, 6.1-3, 7.1-15)
5. Polybius - ?(1.1-6, 6)
6. Cicero - On Duties (On Duties, 1)
7. Livy - Rise of Rome (1, 2.1-13, 2.23-40, 5)
8. Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome (1-3, 5, 12, 14)
9. Augustine - City of God( 1.1; 1.14-35; 2.4-7; 4.3-4; 5.8-26; 8.3-13; 11.1; 12.10-14; 12.21-24; 13.21, 14.1-6; 14.11-19; 14.28, 15.1-6; 19)
10. Aquinas - Summa Theologia (Introduction, Section 7)

[edit] Second Semester

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1. Machiavelli - The Prince
2. Luther - On Secular Authority
3. Hobbes - Leviathan
4. Locke - Second Treatise
5. Rousseau - Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
6. Rousseau - Social Contract
7. Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
8. Federalist Papers
9. Tocqueville: - Democracy in America
10. Emerson - The American Scholar and History
11. Mill - On Liberty
12. Marx - Selected Works
13. Freud - Civilization and Its Discontents
14. Arendt - On Revolution