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Follow Along with the Mini Course for Alumni!

By Ethan Rouen ’04J on October 6, 2009

Coming soon, Samuel Moyn, professor of history, will be posting questions and contributing to the discussion as we join him for his mini course, a three-class lecture discussing "Individuality and Society." The course begins on October 21 and will discuss Constant's "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns;" J.S. Mill's On Liberty (introduction and chapters 1, 3 and 4); de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (general introduction, volume I, part 2, chapters 7 and 9, and volume II, part 1, chapters 1 and 2, part 2, chapters 1-4 and 16, and part 4, chapters 6-8; the first essay from Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals; and slections from Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

So start reading and thinking, and get ready for Moyn's first post coming soon.

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