This year I am teaching an undergraduate course in the fall:
Philosophy 2800F: History of Political Philosophy
A survey of political philosophy in the Western tradition. We will read Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Mill and Marx with a focus on the question: What justifies political authority? Themes and topics will include equality, freedom, property and, toward the end of the course, domination.
and a graduate seminar in the winter:
Philosophy 9135B: Political Philosophy and Revolutionary Politics in 17th Century England
A survey of political philosophy written--in pamphlets and treatises, sometimes anonymously--in England during the tumultuous period starting with the Civil Wars (which began in 1642) and ending with the passage of the Bill of Rights in 1689. We will read the best known works of this period, Hobbes's Leviathan and Locke's Two Treatises of Government, but much more as well, including some of the writings of the (radical democratic) Levellers and (communist) Diggers; Hobbes's contemporary critics, including Filmer, to whom the first of Locke's Treatises was a response; and Locke's critic Proast, with whom Locke engaged in a lengthy debate about toleration. Topics will include equality, the rule of law, democracy, property and toleration.