19th Century Liberalism

Thursday, January 20, 2022


John Stuart Mill (Photograph, 1865)

Read before class:

  • J.S. Mill, On Liberty selections (Course Packet, hereafter referred to as CP 1-8)
  • William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe Each Other (Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, hereafter CAPCT 163-69)
  • Pope Pius IX, “Syllabus of Errors,” selections (CP 9-10)
  • Tomas Cipriano de Mosquera“Courting Papal Anger”(Colombia Reader 118-22)
  • “Liberalism and Sin,” (Colombia Reader 123-27)