Social & Political Philosophy

Required and Suggested Readings

Required Readings

• Political Philosophy, Pojman
• First Democracy, Woodruff
• A Rulebook for Arguments, 3rd ed., Weston
• Course Packet (available from UW-RC Bookstore)

Suggested Readings

• On Liberty, Mill
• Leviathan, Hobbes
• Second Treatise of Government, Locke
• The Communist Manifesto, Marx & Engels
• Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Marx
• Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, Berlin
• Is Democracy Possible Here?, Dworkin
• A Theory of Justice, Rawls
• Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Nozick
• Just and Unjust Wars: A moral argument with historical illustrations, Walzer

Other Fun Reads

• Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone
• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosopy Through Jokes
• Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
• The Happiness Hypothesis, Haidt
• The Illusion of Conscious Will, Wegner