# Calendar

Course calendar.
WEEK # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Machiavelli
1 and 2 | The New Understanding of Human Nature and Politics |
Hobbes
3 | On Man |
4 | On Commonwealth |
Locke
5 | Contract | Paper 1 due
6 | Legitimate Government |
7 | Freedom of Thought | Paper 1 revision due
LIBERTY AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM
8 | The American Founding |
9 | Liberty and Equality in America |
STATESMANSHIP AND THE AMERICAN REGIME
10 | Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom? | Paper 2 due
A CRITIQUE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Rousseau
11 | Human Nature and Inequality |
12 | The Freedom of the Citizen |
THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY
Nietzsche
13 | A New Vision | Paper 3 due