課程資訊
課程名稱
西洋政治思想專題
Seminar on Selected Topics in Western Political Thought 
開課學期
109-2 
授課對象
社會科學院  政治學研究所  
授課教師
蕭高彥 
課號
PS7012 
課程識別碼
322 M4020 
班次
 
學分
2.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期五3,4(10:20~12:10) 
上課地點
社科研605 
備註
碩班必修:政治思想。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限:20人
外系人數限制:5人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1092PS7012_ 
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課程概述

本學期將研讀孟德斯鳩與盧梭的政治思想,包括精讀原典,理解憲政主義與共和民主理論進程之差異;另外,也將選讀清末民初的中文譯本,切入比較政治思想的取向,瞭解在歷史中,兩位思想家的文本如何被運用在政治論述之建構以及意識形態的鬥爭。 

課程目標
本課程目標在於訓練同學熟悉西方現代政治思想研究之發展以及比較政治思想的趨勢,並培養獨立研究能力。 
課程要求
課程要求﹕
1) 輪流報告教材(報告需準備大綱,時間以二十分鐘為原則)。
2) 閱讀教材,每次上課準備問題提出討論。
3) 就本學期授課內容撰寫學期報告一篇,於7/31前email寄給老師(carl@gate.sinica.edu.tw),逾時不候。 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 備註: 請事前口頭預約,或以email預約時間: carl@gate.sinica.edu.tw 
指定閱讀
上課進度:

2/26 導論

3/5 Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, ed. Anne Cohler et. al. (Cambridge Text in History of Political Thought), Author’s Foreword, Preface, Bk. 1-3, 5, 8. 張鈞瑋

3/12 Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Bk. 11-12, 17-19. 李欣庭

3/19 Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Bk. 20, 21, 24, 26, 29. 楊子宜

3/26 嚴復,〈孟德斯鳩列傳》、《法意》選:第1-3卷。曾麗萍
張相文《萬法精理》選:第一卷1-3章。

4/2 【溫書假】

4/9 嚴復,《法意》選:第5卷13-16章(論專制)、第6卷13章(論日本法律)、第8卷19-21章(專制與支那帝國)、第11卷1-6章、第12卷1-3章。
張相文《萬法精理》選:第二卷1章13節(論日本法律之缺)、第二卷3章21節(論支那帝國)、第三卷1章1-6節、第三卷2章1-3節。

4/16 Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Discourse on Sciences and Arts郭易非
Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Epistle Dedicatory (To the Republic of Geneva) 陳 靖
版本:Jean-Jacque Rousseau, The First and Second Discourses Together with the Replies to Critics and Essay on the Origin of Languages, ed. Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge Text in History of Political Thought), pp.3-28, 114-123.

4/23 【期中考週】

4/30 Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, ed. Victor Gourevitch, Preface, 陳 靖Part. 1. 井日南多

5/7 Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part. 2. 鄭霈晞

5/14 Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Social Contract, ed. Victor Gourevitch, Bk. 1-2. 曾麗萍

5/21 Jean-Jacque Rousseau, Social Contract, ed. Victor Gourevitch, Bk. 3-4. 陳明超

5/28 Leo Straus, Natural Right and History, pp.252-294, on Rousseau. 林懿平

6/4 法儒盧騷著,《民約通義》(可選讀中江兆民《民約譯解》,第二卷)井日南多

6/11梁啟超,1902,《近世歐洲四大家政治學說》,上海:廣智書局。頁31-77(論盧梭及孟德斯鳩)

6/18 學期報告構想討論,需準備書面大綱。
 
參考書目
孟德斯鳩著,《論法的精神》,張雁深譯,臺北:臺灣商務印書館,1998。
Louis Althusser, 1982 (1972). Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx: Politics and History, tran. B. Brewster. London: NLB.
蕭高彥,《西方共和主義思想史論》,台北:聯經,2013。
蕭高彥,《探索政治現代性:從馬基維利到嚴復》,台北:聯經,2020。


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