Week 5 -- and Reading Assignment Change

Paper #1 Due on Tuesday, 4/24 by 6pm in my office. Please include the final 5-7 page paper, rough draft (with or without notes), and both sets of peer review (typed or handwritten is fine). Please remember to include the names of both of your peer reviewers. 

If you need to come talk to me before the paper is due, I will have office hours on Thursday, 4/19 between 2-4pm and next Monday 2-4pm. All other office hours are as listed in the syllabus.

Next week we will be starting on Michael Oakeshott and Simone de Beauvoir. See below.

Thanks! 

Week 5—Questioning Tradition; **PAPER #1 DUE in my office by 6pm**

4/24, Tuesday

--Michael Oakeshott, “Political Education,” p. 43-69 from Rationalism in Politics. ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE at WWU Library website.

--Oakeshott, “On Being Conservative,” from The Portable conservative reader, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Russell Kirk, p. 567-599. ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE at WWU Library website.

NO LONGER ON THE SYLLABUS. LET OTHER SEMINAR MEMBERS KNOW IF POSSIBLE.

--Oakeshott, “The masses in representative democracy,” from The last best hope: a democracy reader, Stephen John Goodlad, editor, p. 75-91. ON ELECTRONIC RESERVE at WWU Library website. 

**PAPER #1 DUE in my office/mailbox by 6pm**

--All seminar participants are to post their response to readings on Blackboard by Wednesday at 9pm

4/26, Thursday

--Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949, trans. H M Parshley, Penguin 1972.

--“ Introduction,” The Second Sex

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/introduction.htm

--Chapter 1, Biology, PAGES 1-4, 22-39 ONLY

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/ch01.htm

--2^nd paper topics distributed