PHI 4906: Honors Hegel's political philosophy  Prof. Mark Tunick http://www.fau.edu/~tunick/courses/hegel/dis-index.html Fall 2014 (Wed. 2-3:20, HC 116)

Description: We will give a close reading to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, with some additional readings from Hegel's Phenomenology and other of his works, and some readings in Kant and Aristotle. This is a 3-credit directed independent study and students are expected to work independently to a large degree, but the class will meet once a week to allow us to discuss the readings together and on occasion for lectures that will help students understand the text.
Course Requirements: Students are expected to participate in class discussions, which requires doing the reading in a timely fashion. Grades are based on participation (10%) and on three papers of  6-7 pages each (30% each). Due dates are indicated below. Students agree to adhere to the honor code, at http://www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/academics_honor_code.  While you are encouraged to discuss the course material with each other, all assignments must be entirely your own work. You are not permitted to copy or borrow from the reading notes, drafts, or outlines of other students.  If you have any doubts about what constitutes plagiarism or a violation of the honor code, consult with me beforehand.
Students are expected to develop their ability to think and write critically about philosophical texts and to acquire an understanding of Hegel's political philosophy.
Required Reading: Hegel, Reason in History, tr. Hartman (MacMillan); Hegel, Philosophy of Right, tr. Nisbet (Cambridge); Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, tr. Ellington (Hackett). Other material is in the Course Readings section of Blackboard (BB)
Office Hours: phone 6-8670 or email tunick@fau.edu to arrange times; or visit HC 133.

1. (8.20) Introduction (1): Why Hegel? Hegel's life and works
Rdg: Hegel, Reason in History, pp. 3-67; "Hegel's Life and Works" handout (BB)

2. (8.27) Hegel's philosophy of history
Rdg: Hegel, Reason in History, pp. 68-95; Stephen Jay Gould, Panda's Thumb, ch. 12 (BB)
   
3. (9.3) PR Preface: Hegel's method; immanent criticism
     Rdg: Philosophy of Right (PR): Preface

4. (9.10) PR Introduction (1): Hegel's conception of freedom.
    Rdg: PR Pars. 1-7

5. (9.17) PR Introduction (2): Hegel's Conception of Freedom, continued.
    Rdg: PR Pars. 8-24
Paper One Due

6. (9.24) PR Introduction (3): Hegel's criticism of subjective justifications; What Hegel means by "right"; the structure of PR.
     Rdg: PR Pars. 25-40

7. (10.1) Abstract Right; Hegel on property and contract
     Rdg: PR Pars. 41-81
     Study questions on 'Abstract Right'

8. (10.8) Hegel's theory of crime and punishment
     Rdg: PR Pars. 82-101

9. (10.15) Hegel's criticism of Abstract Right; Moralitaet (Purpose and Responsibility)
    Rdg: PR Pars. 102-118

10. (10.22) Hegel's theory of criminal accountability
     Rdg: Hegel PR Pars. 119-141
Paper Two due

11. (10.29) Hegel's opponent: Kantian moral theory
    Rdg: Kant, Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals; PR Pars. 142-157; Hegel, "Natural Law Essay" excerpt (BB); Aristotle's Politics (excerpt) (BB)

12. (11.5) Sittlichkeit; the "founder"; Family and Marriage
    Rdg: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit , Pars. 347-58, 455, 474-75 (BB); PR Pars. 158-181

13. (11.12) Hegel's theory of civil society; Hegel on poverty
    Rdg: PR Pars. 182-256

14. (11.19) Hegel 's theory of the state; the theory of punishment (in a new light); the justification of Hereditary monarchy
    Rdg: PR Pars. 257-320
Film: Kurosawa's Ikiru, special screening to be scheduled

15. (11.26) Hegel's theory of international relations
   Rdg: PR Pars. 321-360
   Paper Three due

Avineri, Shlomo Hegel's Theory of the Modern State (Cambridge, 1972)
Brod, Harry, Hegel's Philosophy of Politics (Westview, 1992)
D'Hondt, Jacques, Hegel in His Time (Broadview Press, 1988)
Hardimon, Michael, Hegel's Social Philosophy: The Project of Reconciliation (Cambridge, 1994)
Ilting, Karl-Heinz, "Zur Genese der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie," in Philosophische Rundschau, vol. 3   (1983)
Ilting, "The structure of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," in Pelczynski, ed. Hegel's Political Philosophy (Cambridge, 1971)
Knowles, Dudley, Hegel and the Philosophy of Right (Routledge, 2002)
Ormison, Alison, Love and Politics: Re-interpreting Hegel (SUNY, 2004)
Pelczynski, Z.A., ed. The State and Civil Society (Cambridge, 1984)
Reyburn, Hugh, The Ethical Theory of Hegel (Oxford, 1921)
Ritter, Joachim, Hegel and the French Revolution (MIT, 1982)
Shklar, Judith, "Hegel's Phenomenology: an elegy for Hellas," in Pelczynski, ed., Hegel's Political Philosophy
Smith, Steven, Hegel's Critique of Liberalism (Chicago, 1989)
Solomon, Robert, In The Spirit of Hegel (Oxford, 1983)
Tunick, Hegel's Political Philosophy (Princeton, 1992)
Tunick, 'Hegel's Nonfoundationalism: A Phenomenological Account of the Structure of Philosophy of Right'. History of Philosophy Quarterly 11:317-338 (1994).
Tunick, 'Are there natural rights?--Hegel's break with Kant', in Hegel on the Modern World, ed. Ardis B. Collins. SUNY Press (1994).
Tunick, "Hegel's Justification of Hereditary Monarchy." History of Political Thought 12:481-496 (1991). Available online.
Tunick, "Hegel's Claim about Democracy and his Philosophy of History." In Dudley, ed. Hegel and History (SUNY Press, 2009)
Tunick, "Hegel on Justified Disobedience."Political Theory 26:514-535 (August 1998). Available online.
Tunick, "Hegel against Fukuyama's Hegel," Clio 22:383-389 2009.
Tunick, Review of Thom Brooks, Hegel's Political Philosophy: A Systematic Reading of the Philosophy of Right. Mind 118(470):449-53 (2009), available online.
Walsh, W.H., Hegelian Ethics (St. Martin's Press, 1969)
Wiedmann, Franz, Hegel (Pegasus, 1968): illustrated biography
Wood, Allen, Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge, 1991)