Religion, Law and Morality - what should be read?

[Brad De Long]

>It's that time of the year again when wayward grad students grub for sessional
>positions...
>
>Last year I put together a monster of a first term reading list for 
>a course on
>Religion, Law and Morality ("western") - with selected readings from Plato,
>Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel,
>Mill, Marx and Nietzsche (yep, that's 1 a week with one weeks grace in a 13
>week semester).  I have the option of doing this again or thinking 
>it through a
>little differently.  Some of these writings are unbearable and I won't do them
>again.
>
>If I have to pick 6 or 7 people to focus on... stuff that will make the
>"religion, law and morality" make sense for the second semester (when we look
>at the fun stuff from Arendt to Zizek).  So what would y'all recommend?
>
>I came up with this:  Plato (Republic), Aristotle (Ethics), Locke (Let on
>Toleration), Mandeville (Fable of Bees), Kant & Hegel (categorical imperative
>and world history), Rousseau (Politcs and the Arts), and Marx (selected
>readings from the M-E Reader). I think most of the "basic" concepts are here:
>politics, religion, the social contract, political economy, and the
>enlightenment.
>
>Offlist recommendations (with explanations) are welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>ken

Alexis de Tocqueville? Adam Smith? (Ducks and runs...)

Brad DeLong