Perspectives on the Liberalism of John Locke - AFSV00353

• Anglický název: Perspectives on the Liberalism of John Locke
• Zajišťuje: Ústav filosofie a religionistiky (21-UFAR)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2021
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 5
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu
• Garant: prof. James Hill, Ph.D.; doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D.

Anotace

Poslední úprava: doc. Jakub Jirsa, Ph.D. (06.10.2020)

We will meet at ZOOM: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/99399694480

Course Description:
The course will provide a critical introduction to the political philosophy of liberalism in John Locke as it is expressed in his Second Treatise of Government and in A Letter concerning Toleration. We will seek to understand Locke’s political thought in the wider context of the liberal tradition, including its relations to contemporary liberal thought. Different interpretations and critical perspectives on Locke’s liberalism will also be considered.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: prof. James Hill, Ph.D. (07.10.2020)

Ashcraft, Richard. Revolutionary Politics and Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Princeton, 1986

Grant, Ruth. John Locke’s Liberalism. Chicago University Press, 1987

Laslett, Peter. ‘The English Revolution and Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government'’ in Cambridge Historical Journal, 1956

Laslett, Peter. ‘Introduction’ in John Locke, Two Treatises of Government. CUP, 1987

LoLordo, Antonia. Locke’s Moral Man. OUP, 2012

Mattern, Ruth. “Moral Science and the Concept of Persons in Locke”, Locke, Oxford Readings in

            Philosophy, edited Vere Chappell. OUP, 1998

Nuovo, Victor. John Locke: The Philosopher as Christian Virtuoso. OUP, 2017

Ryan, Alan. On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present, Norton, 2012, chapter 13

Savonius-Wroth, Paul Schuurman, Jonathan Walmsley (ed.) The Continuum Companion to Locke,

            Continuum, 2010

Seagrave, S. Adam. ‘Locke on the Law of Nature and Natural Rights’. In Stuart (ed): 373-393

Stuart, Matthew (ed). A Companion to Locke. Wiley Blackwell. 2016

Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History, Chicago, 1953, chapter 5

Tully, James. A Discourse on Property: John Locke and his adversaries. CUP, 1980

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: prof. James Hill, Ph.D. (27.07.2020)

Course Requirements:
Each week there will be a reading available which will be the subject of our discussion in the seminar. The reading is an essential part of the course, and students will lose their way if they fail to do it. Our course will be graded according to two criteria: attendance and written work. There is no formal exam to this course, but the written work will be equivalent to the exam.

(i) To be eligible for the grade, students should not be absent from the seminar more than three times over the semester.

(ii) The written work will be a short essay, of between 1,000-1,500 words on one subject from the course. This essay, written in English, should show knowledge of one specific problem in Locke’s liberalism as included in the course. The student should choose the topic and essay title themselves, in consultation with the instructors. The essay should include their own argued standpoint. The essay must be handed in on paper by December 1^st 2020. Essays cannot be accepted after this date, nor can they be accepted in electronic form. All essays will undergo a routine check for plagiarism.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: prof. James Hill, Ph.D. (20.10.2020)

Perspectives on the Liberalism of John Locke

 

1. What is liberalism?

          A modern phenomenon? Contemporary liberalism. Limited and conditional   government

2. Locke and liberalism:

          Historical background. Stuart absolutism and the Glorious Revolution.       

3. Natural Law and Divine Law.

          Rights and theism. The role of reason.

4. State of Nature.

          Its character and its difficulties.

5. The Problem of slavery in Locke.

6. Property.

          Self-ownership. Personhood. Labour. Inequality.

7. Marriage and the family.

          Contract and consent. Conjugal society and political society.

8. The Origin of political society.

          Consent, contract, democracy and its limits.

9. The Division of powers:

          Executive, legislative and federative.

10. Rebellion and the ‘appeal to heaven’.

11. Toleration.

          The political and private spheres. Freedom of religion and intolerance of atheism.

12. Conclusion. Critical summary.

          Different interpretations (libertarian, left-liberalism, property and Marxian critique).

 

Primary texts: The Second Treatises of Government,

          Also: A Letter concerning Toleration. An Essay concerning Human Understanding

 

Here is a good edition of the Treatises of Government available online: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.503178/page/n5/mode/2up

Good online introductions are from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding can be found here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10615/10615-h/10615-h.htm

Further literature will be available here for download.