Literature
Complete one of the following options a-t, approximately 5 credits each. Other books can be chosen with the consent of the supervisor. NB! Consult your supervisor for the choice of books.
a)
- Plato: Politeia, and
- either Irwin T: Plato's ethics, or Gould J: The development of Plato's ethics
b)
- Aristotle: Ethica Nicomakhea, and
- either Hardie W F R: Aristotle's ethical theory or Rorty A O (ed.): Essays on Aristotle's ethics
c)
- Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologiae and
- Ullman W: Medieval political thought
d)
- selected chapters of Lerner R & Madhi M (eds): Medieval political philosophy: A sourcebook and
- Ullman W: Medieval political thought
e)
- Hobbes T: Leviathan, and
- Johnston D: The Rhetoric of Leviathan
f)
- Locke J: Two treatises of government (ed. Laslett), and
- e.g. Schochet G J: Life, liberty and property or Lloyd Thomas D A: Routledge philosophy guidebook to Locke on government
g)
- Spinoza B: Ethica, and
- selected chapters of Kashap S P (ed.): Studies in Spinoza
h)
- Either Hume D: Enquiry concerning the principles of morals, or Hume D: Treatise of human nature, book III, and
- either Chappell V C (ed.): Hume, or Miller D: Philosophy and Ideology in Hume's Political Thought
i)
- SelbyBigge L A (ed.): British Moralists, and
- Willey B: The English Moralists
j)
- Rousseau J-J: Du contrat social, and
- either Durkheim E: Montesquieu and Rousseau, or Masters R D: The political philosophy of Rousseau
k)
- Kant I: Critik der praktischen Vernunft; and
- either Kant I: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, or Kant I: Lectures on ethics;
- read also one of the following: Beck L W: A Commentary of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, or Timmermann J: Kants’ Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary, or Walker R: Kant and the Moral Law
l)
- Hegel G W F: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, and
- either Avineri S: Hegel's theory of the modern state, or Pelczynski Z A (ed.): Hegel's political philosophy
m)
- Bentham J: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, or Mill J S: Utilitarianism, and also
- either Rosen F: Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill, or Crisp R: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Mill's Utilitarianism
n)
- Elster J: Making sense of Marx, and
- either Marx K: Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte 1844, or Marx K: Das Kapital I
o)
- Moore G E: Principia Ethica, and
- Schilpp P A (ed.): The philosophy of G E Moore (parts II: 1-6 and III: 1)
p)
- Wittgenstein L: Philosophische Untersuchungen, and
- Wittgenstein L: “Lecture on ethics” (in Philosophical Review Jan. 1965);
- read also Kannisto H: “Miksi Wittgenstein (lähes) vaikeni etiikasta?” (in Tiede ja edistys 3/89, pp. 213-218) and Pitkin H F: Wittgenstein and justice
q)
- Horkheimer M & Adorno T: Dialektik der Aufklärung, and
- either Schmidt A: Die Idee der kritischen Theorie, or Held D: Introduction to critical theory
r)
- Nietzsche F: Jenseits von Gut und Böse and
- e.g. Bernstein J A: Nietzsche's moral philosophy, or Nehamas A: Nietzsche: Life as literature
s)
- Heidegger M Sein und Zeit and
- Kisiel T: The Genesis of Heidegger's “Being and time”.
t)
- Sidgwick H: Methods of Ethics and
- Schneewind J B: Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy.
Kf320 Philosophical Classics