Istvan Hont Introduction to the History of Modern Poiiticai Thought: L From Locke to Hume Michelmas Term 1990, first four weeks Mondays and Wednesdays 10.00 History Faculty, West Road, (For History Trlpos Part I, Paper 19; Part II, Paper 3; and SPS Tripos Part II, Paper 17) [Part II of this course, 'Rousseau and Smith' will be given on Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00 In the second four weeks of Michaelmas 1990, Part III, 'From Kant to J.S. Mill' In Lent Term 1991, on Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00] Schedule of lectures: 1./ 15 October, Monday: Introduction: The Idioms of Modern Political Thought 2./ 17 October, Wednesday: Locke: Property, Civilisation and Consent 3./ 22 October, Monday: Locke: The Legitimate Polity 4./ 24 October, Wednesday: Locke: Trust, Toleration and Resistance 5./ 29 October, Monday: Hume: Justice as an Artflclal Virtue 6./ 31 October, Wednesday: Hume: The Politics of Commercial Society 7./ 5 November, Monday: Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws and the Principles of Government 8./ 7 November, Wednesday: Montesquieu: Despotism, Civilisation and Doux Commerce Texts on which questions will be set in Section A of the Trioos papers: John Locke, Two Treatises of Government David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature. Book III. Montesquieu, The Soririt of Laws, trans, A. Cohler, B. Miller and H. Stone Past TriPOS Questions addressed to these texts f 1985-90): Locke Were Locke's Two Treatises self-contained and self-explanatory? What do Locke's argument for toleration tell us about his general political theory? 'One of the clearest legitimations of revolution In English political thought'. How far can this be said of Locke's Two Treatises^ What were the limits on revolutionary activity In the Two Treatises^ Can we elucidate Locke's arguments In the Two Treatises by studying his other works? What were the grounds for revolutionary activity In Locke's Two Treatise^ Why did Locke lay so much emphasis on the distinction between society and governmental power? Why did Locke make property so central to the argument of the Second TreatiseR Consider Locke's Two Treatises as an Intervention In the 'Exclusion Controversy'. Do you find Locke's elimination of consent from the explanation of the origin of Individual property convincing? Hume 'What corresponds In Hume's politics to his dislike of religion Is a distaste for all forms of political enthusiasm'. Discuss. 'Hume simply replaced the social contract with social conventions'. Discuss. What effect did Hume's atheism have on his political theory? What Is sceptical about Hume's political thinking? What Is the significance of Hume's claim that 'politics may be reduced to a science'? 8 Forbes, Duncan, 'Natural Law and the Scottish Enlightenment', in R.H.Campbell and A.S.Sklnner (eds.), ThQ Origins ami Nature of the Scottish Enlightenment. (Edinburgh, 1982), pp.186-204, Moore, James, 'The Two Systems of Francis Hutcheson: On the Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment' in M.A. Stewart (ed.). Studies In the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment (Oxford, 1990), pp. 37-59. Haakonssen, Knud, 'Natural Law and the Scottish Enlightenment' in D. Jory and J.C. Stewart-Robertson (eds.), Man and Nature/ L'homme et la nature, vol. 4 (1985), pp. 47-80. 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