This course is class restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. A careful examination of three of the great eighteenth-century political novels -- Fenelon'sTelemachus,Defoe'sRobinson Crusoe, andSwift'sGulliver's Travels-- focusing on the way in which they can serve as guides for inquiry into two central questions of political philosophy, namely: what is the human being, and what sorts of moral and political institutions best promote human flourishing?
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