Prescribed Texts (see Paper 2: 30%)

Martha Nussbaum Poetic Justice
Charles Taylor The Ethics of Authenticity
Hilary Putnam Reason, Truth and History
Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality, Part 1
Paul Feyerabend Farewell to Reason (section entitled .Notes on Relativism.)
A Theory of Justice, Chapter 1, sections 1.4; Chapter 2, sections
11.17; Chapter 3; Chapter 4, sections 33.35 and 39.40
John Rawls
Simone de Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity
Hannah Arendt The Human Condition
Ludwig Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (Blue Book section only)
Ortega y Gasset History as a System
Martin Buber I and Thou
Sigmund Freud Civilisation and its Discontents and Outline of Psychoanalysis
John Stuart Mill Essay on Liberty
Friedrich Nietzsche The Genealogy of Morals
Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Social Contract
(first three books)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Second Treatise on Government
René Descartes Meditations
Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae, la qq 75.88: Concerning man
Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics, I, II, III (1109b30.1115a4), VI, X
Plato The Republic, Books V.IX
Confucius The Analects
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching