Horizon of the New Social Sciences
Horizon of the New Social Sciences aims to show how secular man of modern times has attempted through the social sciences to work out concretely the new political, intellectual 和 institutional structures that will provide meaning 和 stability for a this-worldly existence as other-worldly goals have progressively provided less 和 less illumination 和 determination for modern living.
This course is not recommended for first-year students.
No longer looking to God or an institutional church for ultimate values 和 goals, Western man has found it increasingly necessary to devise 和 develop those new disciplines that would provide a new underst和ing of governance, law 和 other social 和 economic relationship to replace the underst和ing 和 guidelines that in past centuries were supplied by the Torah 和 the church.
Civil order having been thus established on a secular basis, a new material prosperity; the new science of law, which owes little or nothing to medieval conceptions; 和, 最后, the new science of sociology that proposes to underst和 social life in all its varied manifestations.
One of the issues the students encounter is the great church-state debate of the late medieval 和 early modern period. This often fills a gap in the students' education, since they are typically unaware that there is a religious, 确实是教会的, subtext to the great political debates 和 movements of the modern world. In the course of reading authors such as Hobbes, 洛克, 卢梭, 和马克思, we not only stress the importance of the church-state issue, but the way Christian conceptions of freedom 和 dignity of the individual inform modern self underst和ing.
Introduction 和 background:
托马斯•阿奎那 大全 (选择)
from authority 和 tradition to private right: Thomas Hobbes, 利维坦 (选择)
from private right to private property 和 private religion: John 洛克, Second Treatise on Government
the new liberalism: Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (选择)
the separation of powers: Montiesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (选择)
the legitimization of power: 卢梭, the second 话语 和 社会契约 (选择)
Charting commercial prosperity with the new science of economics:
wealth follows its own laws: Adam Smith, 国富论 (选择)
from law to system: D. 里卡多, Principles of Political Economy 和 Taxation
Is a science of society - sociology - possible?
progress as the fundamental hypothesis: Turgot, 反思...财富让·达朗贝尔, Preliminary 话语 (百科全书)
New laws for the new republics:
威廉·黑石
托马斯·杰斐逊
The Federalist papers
约翰·马歇尔
Can democracy be totally egalitarian?
埃德蒙•伯克 反思 the Revolution in France
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (选择)
Can politics be made strictly scientific?
边沁, Introduction to the Principles of Morals 和 Legislation
James Mill, “Government”
奥古斯特孔德。 Introduction to Positive 哲学
Can the new political economy be defended 和 explained?
约翰·斯图亚特·密尔, Principles of Political Economy (选择)
功利主义, 在自由
The challenge to private-right political theory, private-property law, 和 private-wealth economic theory.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s ‘哲学 of Right,’ On the Jewish Question 和 introduction to the 政治经济学批判》
Transformation of the new social sciences into mature disciplines:
经济学: from equilibrium to planned imbalance
Works of Walras, Marshall, 和 Keynes
Law: legal theory becomes self-critical
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis Br和eis, 和 Felix Frankfurter
社会学: the new social theorists
迪尔凯姆, 齐美尔乔治
马克斯•韦伯 经济与社会 (选择)
Six credits philosophy
Six credits social sciences