Humanities 4: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution
(1660-1848)
Professor Eric Watkins Room:
Solis 107
Office: H&SS 8062 Time:
MWF 1:00-1:50
Office Hours: Monday 9:30-10:30 and
by appt. Email:
ewatkins@ucsd.edu
Course Webpage: http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/ewatkins/HUM4W2020/Hum4W20.html
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Teaching
Assistants |
Email |
Office
Hours |
Office
location |
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Rosie
Dwyer |
F
11-1 |
Mandeville
cart |
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Michael
Kenny |
Th 3-4:30/F 2-3:30 |
GH 173B |
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Kate Thompson |
M
11-12/W 10:30-12:30 |
GH
173E/Mandeville cart |
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Stacie Vos |
W 11:30-12:50 |
Mandeville cart (indoor) |
Reading Assignments
M 1-6 Introduction pdf
Science in the Enlightenment, or The Scientific Revolution
W 1-8 Newtonian Science (no reading) pdf
Political Theory in the Enlightenment Locke
READING GUIDE
F 1-10 Locke, Second Treatise of
Government (1690) Chapters 1-5 (pp. 7-30) pdf
M 1-13 Locke, Second Treatise of
Government, Chapters 9-11, 19 (pp. 65-74, 107-124)
Religion in the Enlightenment
W 1-15 Hume, An Inquiry Concerning
Human Understanding (1748) sect. 10 Sect.
10 Hume
READING GUIDE pdf
F 1-17 Hume, An Inquiry
Concerning Human Understanding, sect. 11 Sect. 11
M 1-20 No class (MLK Jr. Day) First
Paper Prompt
The Meaning of Life in the Enlightenment
W 1-22 Voltaire, Candide
(1759) pdf
F 1-24 Voltaire, Candide,
continued
Political Theory in Transition (from Enlightenment to
Romanticism)
M 1-27 Rousseau, Discourse on the
Origin of Inequality (1754) pp. 45-75 (2nd edition) Rousseau
INEQUALITY READING GUIDE pdf
W 1-29 Rousseau, On the Social
Contract (1762) (pp. 156-76, 178-85) Rousseau
SOCIAL CONTRACT READING GUIDE pdf
F 1-31 Rousseau, On the Social
Contract (pp. 191-205, 212-15, 218-230, 243-252)
17th & 18th Century Art
M 2-3 Mike Slayen, Lecture and Performance
(no reading) First Paper due
The Origins of Romantic Literature
W 2-5 Goethe, The Sufferings of
Young Werther (1774) pdf
Enlightenment Conception of History
F 2-7 Kant, "What
is Enlightenment?" Kant
ENLIGHTENMENT READING GUIDE pdf
Enlightenment Morality
M 2-10 *Kant, Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section 1 pdf
W 2-12 *Kant, Groundwork of
the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section 2
F 2-14 *Kant, Groundwork of the
Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section 2
M 2-17 No class (President's Day) Second
Paper Prompt
Political Revolutions (French and American)
W 2-19 *"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen"
F 2-21 The Declaration of Independence
(1776) pdf
US
Constitution (1787/91)
M 2-24 Madison, "Federalist
Papers" (1787) 10 and 51
Enlightenment Religion and History (again)
W 2-26 Lessing, The
Education of Humankind (1780) Lessing
READING GUIDE pdf
Romantic Conceptions of History, Art, and Ethics
F 2-28 Schiller, On
the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794), Letters 1-9 Schiller
READING GUIDE pdf
M 3-2 Art Presentation (no reading) Second Paper due
W 3-4 Schiller, On the
Aesthetic Education of Man, Letters 21-24
Religion in Romanticism
F 3-6 Schleiermacher, On Religion, Chapters 1-2
(selections) Schleiermacher
READING GUIDE pdf
Political Authority in Romanticism
M 3-9 *Novalis, "Faith and Love" & "Fragments from
the Notebooks" (1798) Novalis
READING GUIDE pdf
Conclusion
W 3-11 Conclusion pdf
Final Exam
F 3-20 11:30-2:29 Final Exam
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.