PHP 3502/PHI 4906: Honors Hegel's political philosophy  Prof. Mark Tunick http://www.fau.edu/~tunick/courses/hegel/index.html

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 by Kant, Burke, and Aristotle. The emphasis will be on bringing Hegel's political theory to bear on our own politics and practices. Class will combine lectures with discussion. Class will meet once a week for discussion.
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. Each unexcused absence beyond 2 will result in an automatic 1/3 letter grade reduction for participation.
Students agree to adhere to the honor code, the text of which is at www.fau.edu/divdept/honcol/students/honorcode.html.  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.
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). Material indicated by a * will be handed out or put on BB.
Office Hours: phone 6-8670 or email me at tunick@fau.edu

Course Outline
Each reading assignment should be completed prior to the class under which it is listed.

1. Hegel's philosophy of history
Rdg: Hegel, Reason in History; Stephen Jay Gould, essay from Panda's Thumb*

2. PR Preface
Rdg: Hegel, Philosophy of Right, Preface (including footnotes)

3. Hegel's System; PR Introduction (1): Hegel's conception of freedom.
Rdg: PR Pars. 1-7; Edmund Burke: excerpt from Reflections on the Revolution in France*
Paper One Due

4. Hegel's Conception of Freedom, continued.
Rdg: PR Pars. 8-24

5. PR Introduction (2): Hegel's criticism of subjective justifications; What Hegel means by "right"; the structure of PR.
Rdg: PR Pars. 25-40

6. Abstract Right overview; Hegel on property
Rdg: PR Pars. 41-64
Study questions on 'Abstract Right'

7. Hegel on Property and Contract
Rdg: PR Pars. 65-81

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

9. Hegel's criticism of Abstract Right; Moralitaet
Rdg: PR Pars. 102-141
Paper Two due

10. Hegel's opponent: Kantian moral theory
Rdg: Kant, Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals

11. Hegel's criticism of Kantian morality and his idea of ethical substance
Rdg: PR Pars. 142-157; excerpts from Aristotle*; Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit , Pars. 347-58, 455, 474-75 *

12. Hegel's theory of Family and Marriage
Rdg: PR Pars. 158-181

13. Hegel's theory of civil society
Rdg: PR Pars. 182-256

14. Hegel 's theory of the state and of international relations
Rdg: PR Pars. 257-320
Film: Kurosawa's Ikiru, HC 114, tba

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

Selected Bibliography

Other works by Hegel

Philosophy of Mind, tr. Wallace and Miller: Pars. 483-577
Phenomenology of Spirit, tr. A.V. Miller: Preface, Introduction, Sections IV, V.A.c., V.B., and VI.
Logic, tr. Wallace (Part 3 of the Encyclopaedia): Par.6.
Introduction in Lectures on the History of Philosophy, vol.1, tr.Haldane (Kegan Paul, 1892)(pp.1-116)
Philosophy of History, tr. Sibree
Natural Law, tr. T.M.Knox (U.Penn, 1975) (1802-3)
Political Writings, especially "The German Constitution" and "The English Reform Bill"
Hegel: The Letters, ed. and tr. Butler and Seiler
German editions of Hegel's Rechtsphilosophie: Vorlesungen ueber Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft, ed. C. Becker, et.al. (Hamburg:Felix Meiner, 1983); Philosophie des Rechts: Die Vorlesung von 1819/20, ed. Dieter Henrich (Frankfurt:Suhrkamp, 1983); Vorlesungen ueber Rechtsphilosophie (1818-1831), ed. Karl-Heinz Ilting (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Fromman, 1973)

Secondary Works on Hegel

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)
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)
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, Mark, 'Hegel's Justification of Hereditary Monarchy', History of Political Thought 12:3 (Autumn 1991)
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. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press (1994)
Tunick, 'Hegel on Justified Disobedience'. Political Theory 26:514-535 (August 1998). Available online through jstor.
Tunick, "Hegel against Fukuyama's Hegel," Clio 22:383-389
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)

Other works

Berlin, Isaiah, "Two Concepts of Liberty," in Four Essays on Liberty
Hamerow, Theodore, Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871 (Princeton, 1958)
Marx, Karl, Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Introduction); German Ideology; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
Scanlon, Thomas, "Promises and Practices," in Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol.19, no.3(Summer, 1990)
Toews, John, Hegelianism (Cambridge, 1980)