Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism,
and Revolution (1660-1848)
Professor Eric Watkins
Room: Center Hall 101
Office: H&SS 8062
Time: MWF 11:00-11:50
Office Hours: Monday
9:00-10:00 and by appt.
Email: ewatkins@ucsd.edu
Course Webpage: http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ewatkins/HUM4W2019/Hum4W19.html
Teaching Assistants
Email
Office Hours
Office location
Michael Kenny
mikenny@ucsd.edu
M 4-5, W 12-2
GH 173B
Christine Payne
capayne@ucsd.edu
W 12:30-2:30
GH 185
Victor
LeGrand
gvlegran@ucsd.edu
W 12-2
GH 173D
Reading
Assignments
M 1-7 Introduction pdf
Science
in the Enlightenment, or The Scientific Revolution
W 1-9 Newtonian Science (no reading) pdf
Political
Theory in the Enlightenment Locke
READING GUIDE
F 1-11 Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690) Chapters 1-5 (pp. 7-30) pdf
M 1-14 Locke, Second
Treatise of Government, Chapters 9-11, 19 (pp. 65-74, 107-124)
W 1-16 Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) sect. 10 Sect. 10 pdf Hume READING GUIDE
Religion
in the Enlightenment
F 1-18 Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, sect. 11 Sect. 11
M 1-21 No class (MLK Jr. Day)
The
Meaning of Life in the Enlightenment
W 1-23 Voltaire, Candide (1759) pdf
F 1-25 Voltaire, Candide, continued
First
Paper Prompt
Political
Theory in Transition (from Enlightenment to Romanticism)
M 1-28 Rousseau, Discourse
on
the Origin of Inequality (1754) pp. 45-75 (2nd
edition) Rousseau
INEQUALITY READING GUIDE pdf
W 1-30 Rousseau, On the Social
Contract (1762) (pp. 156-76, 178-85) Rousseau
SOCIAL CONTRACT READING GUIDE pdf
F 2-1 Rousseau, On the Social Contract (pp. 191-205, 212-15, 218-230, 243-252)
17th
& 18th Century Art
M 2-4 Art Presentation
(no reading)
First Paper due
The
Origins of Romantic Literature
W 2-6 Goethe, The
Sufferings
of Young Werther (1774) pdf
Enlightenment
Conception of History
F 2-8 *Kant, "What is Enlightenment?"
Kant ENLIGHTENMENT READING
GUIDE pdf
M 2-11 Class canceled
W 2-13 *Kant, "Idea
for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective" pdf
Enlightenment
Morality
F 2-15 *Kant, Groundwork
of
the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section 1 pdf
M 2-18 No class (President's Day)
W 2-20 *Kant, Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section
2
Second Paper Prompt
F 2-22 *Kant, Groundwork
of
the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section 2
Political
Revolutions (French and American)
M 2-25 Sieyes, "What is the Third
Estate?" FRENCH
REVOLUTION BACKGROUND pdf
*"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"
*"Declaration of the Rights of Woman"
W 2-27 The
Declaration of Independence (1776) pdf
Madison, "Federalist Papers"
(1787) 10 and 51
US
Constitution (1787/91)
Romantic
Conceptions of History, Art, and Ethics
F 3-1 Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794),
Letters 1-9 pdf Schiller
READING GUIDE
17th,
18th & 19th Century Music
M 3-4 Mike Slayen,
Performance (no reading)
Second Paper due
W 3-6 Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 21-24
Religion
in Romanticism
F 3-8 Schleiermacher, On
Religion, Chapters 1-2 (selections) Schleiermacher
READING GUIDE pdf
Political
Authority in Romanticism
M 3-11 *Novalis, "Faith and Love" & "Fragments from the Notebooks" (1798) pdf Novalis READING GUIDE
Romantic
Poetry
W 3-13 Wordsworth "Ode: Intimations of
Immortality" (1807)
Conclusion
F 3-15 Conclusion
Final
Exam
M 3-18 11:30-2:29 Final Exam
(same classroom) FINAL EXAM
PART IV
Required
Texts:
Goethe,
Johann
Wolfgang von. The
Sufferings of Young Werther, New York,
Norton, 2012 (Corngold translation).
Locke, John, Second
Treatise of Government, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company,
1980.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Basic Political Writings,
Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987. (Second edition)
Voltaire. Candide and Related Texts, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000.
Humanities
Program Writing Handbook, 1st Edition.
A course reader (MyReader)
is available from the Bookstore. * indicates
that the assignment is in this reader.
Course Requirements:
(1) regular attendance at lecture and section;
(2) preparation for, and participation in, weekly discussion
section;
(3) completion of two 5-7 page papers;
(4) a final exam.
Final grades will be assessed as follows: first paper: 20%; second
paper: 30%; final exam: 35%; section: 15%
Other Information:
1. Honor Code. The Academic Honor Code must be observed in this course.
Additionally, students agree that by taking this course all required
papers will be subject to submission for
textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of
plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in
the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting
plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to
the terms of use agreement posted on the Turnitin.com site.
2. If accommodations are needed for a disability or religious reasons,
please notify me during the first class period or as soon as possible.