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Arguing About Political Philosophy Forthcoming with Routledge, January 2009

Matt Zwolinski, editor [email protected]

Projected Table of Contents

Part 1 – Foundational Concepts a. Political Authority i. Life Without a State 1. Thomas Hobbes – Excerpts from Leviathan, chapters 11, 13, 15 2. John Locke – Excerpts from Second Treatise of Civil Government, chapters 2, 9 3. – Excerpts from The Evolution of Cooperation, chapters 1-2 4. Murray Rothbard – “Society without a State,” The Libertarian Forum, vol. VII, no. 1 (January, 1975), pp. 3-7. ii. The Social Contract 1. Thomas Hobbes – Excerpts from Leviathan, chapters 14, 17 2. John Locke – Excerpts from Second Treatise of Civil Government, chapter 8 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – “The Social Contract,” Excerpts from The Social Contract 4. David Hume – “Of the Original Contract,” from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund) 5. – “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime,” in Bringing the State Back, edited by Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschmeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Cambridge University Press, 1985) iii. Democratic Authority 1. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson – “Moral Disagreement in a Democracy,” Social Philosophy and Policy 12:1 (1995), pp. 87-110. 2. Gerald Gaus – “Public Justification and Democratic Adjudication,” Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 3, 1991, pp. 251-281. b. Rights i. UN – “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” ii. Ronald Dworkin – “Taking Rights Seriously,” excerpt from Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge: Press, 1977), chapter 7. iii. Joel Feinberg – “The Nature and Value of Rights,” Journal of Value Inquiry 4 (1970): 263-267. iv. Robert Nozick – “Libertarian Rights,” Excerpts from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), chapters 1 and 3 c. Justice i. David Hume – “Justice as Convention,” excerpt from Treatise of Human Nature, Book III, Part II, Section II ii. John Stuart Mill – “Justice and Utility,” excerpts from Utilitarianism, chapters 2 and 5. 26-May-08

iii. John Rawls – “Justice as Fairness,” excerpts from Theory of Justice (1971) iv. Michael Sandel – “The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self,” Political Theory 12:1 (February, 1984), pp. 81-96.

2. Part 2 – Government, The Economy, and Morality a. Political Economy i. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels – “Communist Manifesto,” from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Works (New York: International Publishers, 1968) ii. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels – “Critique of the Gotha Program,” from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Works (New York: International Publishers, 1968) iii. Frederic Bastiat – Excerpt from “What is Seen and What is Not Seen,” from Selected Essays on Political Economy, 1848. iv. Charles Wolf – “Market Failure,” excerpt from Markets or Governments (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1988) v. William Mitchell and Randy Simmons – “Pathological Politics: The Anatomy of Government Failure,” Excerpt from Beyond Politics (Westview Press 1994) b. Property Rights i. John Locke – Excerpts from Second Treatise of Civil Government, chapter 5 ii. Henry George – “The Injustice of Private Property in Land,” from Peter Vallentyne and Hillel Steiner, eds, The Origins of Left-Libertarianism (Palgrave, 2000). iii. David Schmidtz – “The of Property,” from Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (, 2002) iv. G.A. Cohen – “Marx and Locke on Land and Labor,” Proceedings of the British Academy 71 (1985), pp. 357-388. c. Distributive Justice i. Barbara Ehrenreich – Excerpts from Nickel and Dimed (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001) ii. Robert Nozick – “The Entitlement Theory of Justice,” Excerpts from Anarchy State and Utopia, chapter 7 iii. Friedrich Hayek – “The Atavism of Social Justice” from New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and the History of Ideas (University of Press, 1978), pp. 57-68. iv. Bruce Ackerman – “On Getting What we Don’t Deserve,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 1:1 (1983). pp. 60-70. v. Kai Nielsen – “A Moral Case for Socialism,” Critical Review, vol. 3 Summer/Fall 1989, pp. 542-552. d. Freedom i. John Stuart Mill – “On Liberty,” Excerpts from On Liberty, chapters 1, 2, and 4 ii. Isaiah Berlin – “Two Concepts of Liberty,” from Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford University Press, 1969) iii. Franklin Delano Roosevelt – “The Four Freedoms” iv. George Fitzhugh – “Capitalism as Slavery,” excerpts from Cannibals All! (), chapters 1, 5, 7, 8, 35 e. Equality 26-May-08

i. Jean Jacques Rousseau – “ on the Origins of Inequality,” Excerpts from Discourse on the Origins of Inequality ii. Harry Frankfurt – “Equality as a Moral Ideal,” Ethics, Vol. 98, No. 1 (Oct., 1987), pp. 21-43. iii. Kurt Vonnegut – “Harrison Bergeron,” from Welcome to the Monkey House (Laurel, 1950) iv. Richard Arneson – “Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare,” Philosophical Studies, vol. 55 (1989). v. David Schmidtz – “Equal Respect and Equal Shares,” Social Philosophy and Policy (2002), 19: 244-274.

3. Part 3 – Global Justice a. Immigration i. Chandran Kukathas – “The Case for Open Immigration,” from Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell) ii. David Miller – “Immigration: The Case for Limits,” from Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell) b. Global Distributive Justice i. Peter Singer – “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1:3 (Spring 1972), pp. 229-243. ii. Thomas Pogge – “World Poverty and Human Rights,” Ethics and International Affairs 19:1 (2005), pp. 1-7. iii. Chandran Kukathas – “The Mirage of Global Justice,” Social Philosophy and Policy 23:1 (January, 2006), pp. 1-28. c. Secession i. Herbert Spencer – “The Right to Ignore the State,” from Social Statics. ii. Allen Buchanan – “Secession and Nationalism,” from Robert Goodin and Philip Pettit, eds., A Companion to Political Philosophy (Blackwell, 1993). d. War, Humanitarianism, and Torture i. Randolph Bourne – “War is the Health of the State,” from The Radical Will (University of California Press, 1992) ii. Fernando Teson, “The Liberal Case for Humanitarian Intervention,” in Holzgrefe and Keohane, eds., Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal, and Political Dilemmas (Cambridge, 2003). iii. David Luban – “Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb,” Virginia Law Review Vol. 91 (2005), pp. 1425-1461.