03/11

From the state of nature to the social contract

Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 13&14;

Locke, Second Treatise, Chapter 2;

Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapters 6&8

Pateman, The Sexual Contract. pp.1-18;

Mills, The Racial Contract, pp.120-133

27/10

What is political philosophy?

Strauss, “What is political philosophy?”;

Mills, “‘Ideal Theory’ as Ideology”

Rawls, “Four roles of political philosophy”

20/10

Why be moral?

Shafer-Landau, “Moral Rationalism”

McDowell, “Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?”

13/10

Why be moral?

Foot, “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives”

Worsnip, “Immorality and Irrationality”; Williams, “Internal and External Reasons”

06/10

Moral worth

Sliwa, “Praise without Perfection”

Johnson-King, “Accidentally Doing the Right Thing”