Paternal Authority: Liberty, Duty, and Individual Responsibility
ABSTRACT
With readings drawn from Filmer, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Austen, conferees explored the characteristics and workings of paternal authority during the transition from an aristocratic age to a democratic one.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park (1814). New York and London: Penguin Classics, 2003.
Filmer, Sir Robert. Patriarcha and Other Writings. Edited by Johann P. Sommerville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Locke, John. Two Treaties of Government (1689). Edited by Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract. Translated by John T. Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or the New Heloise: Letters of Two Lovers Who Live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps. Edited by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Translated by Philip Stewart and Jean Vache. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2010.