with 1 page annotated bibliography 7-10 pages long answering 1 of these questions. 1.Critically evaluate Hobbes and Lockes differing accounts of the social contract. 2. Nozick and Rawls differ significantly on what they consider to be a just distribution of resources. Critically evaluate both of their theories. 3. The contest between Fortune and virt lies at the heart of Machiavellis political writings. Critically evaluate how he uses these terms (and their equivalents) in his advice to would-be rulers. For those students planning on taking my fourth year course of Machiavelliyou can write a paper for this course on Machiavelli and then use that as a platform for a larger paper in the Machiavelli course. Those of you interested in going to graduate school or in publishing papers in graduate student journals (or in regular journals) may want to consider this option. 4. Every election, pundits go on and on about democratic reform. Americans complain about the electoral college and Canadians complain about our first-past-the-post system. Taking the observation of de Tocqueville and the concerns of The Federalist Papers as the basis of your analysis, evaluate whether proposed democratic reforms (name and explain some of them) that move us towards a pure democracy are a good thing or not. 5. Critically evaluate de Beauvoirs argument for why women throughout the world are dispossessed. 6. There are many reasons put forth for why the glorious Marxist revolution has not yet occurred. However, globalization has occurred at a rapid pace and the inequality of wealth between the haves and the have-nots is even more extreme than anything Marx witnessed. Given the world economic situation, how likely is it that Marx is about to make a big, bloody, comeback? 7. What do the arguments of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X have to offer contemporary protestors such as Black Lives Matter and Idle No More? Should these contemporary movements look to the King and Malcolm X for tactical or theoretical guidance? 8. In The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith puts forth an argument in support of limiting government regulation of the economy. Given the number of economic catastrophes that have occurred when capitalism has been unfettered, critically evaluate his argument. 9. Plato has received much critical attention by scholars for his treatment of women in The Republic. Some see him as cautiously progressive, others see him as unwavering in his privileging of men and masculine principles. Critically evaluate the role of women in The Republic. 10. Critically discuss Mills position on freedom of speech in relation to the recent events at Wilfred Laurier University involving graduate student and teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd, her supervisor, and the university administration.
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