This is the homepage for PL2044-Social Philosophy, Spring 2008, Polytechnic University.  Choose from the selection below.  This page will be updated periodically.

• Syllabus

• Study Guide Questions
  

• Paper Assignments
• Paper #1
• Paper #2
  

• Guidelines for Writing Philosophy Essays

• Lecture Notes
• Introduction
• Hobbes1
• Rousseau
• Marx1
• Veblen
• Friedan
• Fanon
• King
• Mill1
• Mill2
• Marx2
• Rocco & Palmieri
• Goldman
• Nozick
• Cohen
• Freire

• Links
• Assigned Readings
• Hobbes, "Of Natural Condition of Mankind".
• Rousseau, "Diss. on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind", Parts I and II.
• Marx, "Wages of Labor"
• Veblen, Chaps 1 and 2 of Theory of the Leisure Class.
• Veblen, "Conspicuous Leisure".
• Friedan, "The Happy Housewife Heroine".
• Dowd, "What's a Modern Girl to Do?".
• Fanon, "Concerning Violence".  (Online at the MyPoly website for this course, under "Course Documents".)
  
• King, "Letter from the Birmingham Jail".
• Hobbes, "Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth".
• Mill, On Liberty.
• Marx, "Private Property and Communism".
• Rocco, "The Political Doctrine of Fascism".  (Online at the MyPoly website for this course, under "Course Documents".)
  
• Palmieri, "Fascism and the Meaning of Life".  (Online at the MyPoly website for this course, under "Course Documents".)
• Goldman, "Anarchism:  What It Really Stands For".
• Nozick, "Equality, Envy, Exploitation".
• Cohen, "The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom".
• Freire, Chap 1 of Pedogogy of the Oppressed.
  

• Relevant articles in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• "Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy"
• "Karl Marx"
• "Approaches to Feminist Philosophy"
• "John Stuart Mill"