Week 13.2: M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

Reading:
Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 88-119

Study Questions: 
1. What does Gandhi mean by passive resistance? Why does he choose this form of persuasion over brute force? 

2. Why does Gandhi place so much emphasis on taking up the hand loom and other acts of manual labor?

3. What is your final evaluation of Gandhi's philosophy? Can it be applied universally?

Week 13.1: M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

Reading:
M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 42-87

Study Questions:
1. What is the trouble with railways, lawyers, and doctors? What does this have to do with religion? What does it have to do with the distrust between Hindus and Muslims in India?

2. What is "true civilization"? Is this similar or dissimilar to your own definition of civilization?

Week 12.2: M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj

Reading:
M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, xiv-xxiv, 5-41

Study Questions:
1. According to Gandhi what is Swaraj?

2. Beyond his stated reason that the form of the dialogue allows for easy reading, why might Gandhi write this book as a dialogue? 

Week 2.2: Enlightenment Political Theory & Practice

Frederick II (1712-1786) was the king of Prussia (1740–86), a brilliant military campaigner who, in a series of diplomatic stratagems and wars against Austria and other powers, greatly enlarged Prussia’s territories and made Prussia the foremost military power in Europe. An enlightened absolute monarch, he favored French language and art and built a French Rococo palace, Sanssouci, near Berlin. Frederick the Great was deeply interested in the growth of Enlightenment philosophy, hosting the French philosopher Voltaire in his court and supporting the work of Immanuel Kant.  (adapted from the Encyclopedia Britanica)

Reading:

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government (PER 395-404)
Frederick the Great, "Benevolent Despotism" (PER 452-8)
American Declaration of Independence (PER 466-8)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (PER 466-8)
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830) 
REQUIRED: GLA ON ANNOTATION

Study Questions:
1. What is Locke's theory of property? How does this relate to the founding of political communities? What is the connection between his assumptions about property and slavery?

2. For Frederick the Great what makes a monarch benevolent? What is his defense of monarchical government?

3. How does the American Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen extend Locke's ideas?

BONUS!
Watch the following film. Write a one paragraph summary of what you learned from the video about Frederick the Great of Prussia and you can earn up to 10 points of HW extra credit. This must be turned in with your regular homework today. Watch all five parts.