1. Ideas, Idealism, and Ideologies Lecture 1

2. The New World (1) Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning Divine and Humane(1605); Instauratio Magna (1620), also known as Novum Organum

3. The New World (2) René Descartes (1596-1650) Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus la dioptrique; les meteores; et la geometrie (1637) Engl. tr. A Discourse of a Method for the Wel- guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in Sciences (1649) and Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology, trans. by Paul J. Olscamp (1965)

4. The New World (3) Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) Leviathan (1651) The founding document of Liberalism, in which Hobbes examines the relationship between the individual and society in the new world picture.

5. Liberalism - Philosophical & Political John Locke (1632-1704) Montesquieu (1689-1746) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

6. Liberalism - Utilitarian and Practical Adam Smith (1723-1790) Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) John Stuart Mill (1806-73) >>> David Ricardo (1772-1823) Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)

7. The Political Heritage Declaration of Independence La Déclaration des droits… Inaugural Address 2001 English Version UN Human Rights Charter

8. Conservatism If it works, dont fix it Edmund Burke (1729-97)

9. Socialism Search for Utopia William Godwin (1756-1836) Fran ois Marie Charles Fourier (1772-1837) Auguste Compte (1798-1857) Karl Marx (1818-83)

10. Summary Emphasis on the Individual Emphasis on Reason Liberalism Socialism Conservatism YES NO Postmodernism?YESNO