COURSE OUTLINES AND TEACHING AIDS BY JOHN GUEGUEN, 1958-2000
The archive housed at the Lincoln Green Foundation in Urbana, Illinois, contains for each of the following courses a detailed syllabus, and in the majority of cases a number of related teaching aids such as working papers, study guides, bibliographies, teaching and research notes, and concluding reports. All are available for consultation.
I – UniversityofNotreDame, Department of Political Science, Lecturer (1958-66):
1. Introduction to Social Thought (1958-59)
2. Public Administration Theory (1959)
3. Introduction to Political Theory (1959-60, 1962-63)
4. Political Theory for the Contemporary World (1962)
5. College Seminar [Great Books Program] (1963-66)
6. Principles of Political Order (1963)
7. Problems of Political Order (1964)
8. Nineteenth Century Catholic Political Thought (1965)
II – San Francisco State College, Departments of Integrated Social Science and
Humanities, Visiting Lecturer (1967-68)
1. The Politics and Psychology of Intolerance (1967)
2. American Values: An Introduction to American Studies (1967)
3. Self, Culture, and Society (1968)
4. International Relations Theory: Why War; How Peace? (1968)
III – University of Chicago, The College, Campus and Downtown Programs,
Adjunct Lecturer, jointly with College Advisement Program (1970-72)
1. Problems of Freedom in Modern Society (1970)
2. War and Peace in Social Thought (1971)
3. The Idea of the City (1971)
4. American Values in Crisis (1972)
IV – Purdue University, Calumet Campus, Department of Political Science
Guest Lecturer (1971)
Introduction to American Government: Theory and Institutions
V – Illinois State University, Department of Political Science, Professor (1972-96)
undergraduate courses:
1. American Government and Politics (1972-1983—9 courses)
a) Understanding American Politics Through Literature (1973)
b) Principles and Institutions (1976)
c) Greek Replay: Experiment in Comparative Political Biography (1978)
d) The Problem of Leadership (1980)
e) The Possibility of Statesmanship (1982-1983 [honors section])
f) A Crisis of Leadership (1983)
2. American Political Thought (1973-1995—15 courses)
a) The Founders and Tocqueville (1973)
b) The Impact of Modernity on the American Founders (1974)
c) Political Thought of the American Revolution (1976)
d) Political Thought of Adams and Jefferson (1977)
e) Critique of the American Ideology (1981)
f) Our Improvised Civic Culture and Its Ideological Roots (1984)
g) Two Traditions: Anglo-Protestant and Hispanic-Catholic (1985)
h) On the Idea of America: A Bicentennial Reassessment (1988)
i) America in Perspective: The U. S. Through Foreign Eyes (1989) j) In Search of the American Character (1990)
k) Our Civic Culture: A Reassessment of Democracy in America (1992)
l) The Cultural Revolution of 1968: Antecedents and Anticipations (1994)
m) Philosophical Premises of America’s Cultural Revolution (1995)
3. American Legal Theories (1977-1993—12 courses)
a) Legal Positivism and Natural Law (1977-1978)
b) Classical and Modern Philosophical Premises (1979)
c) Legal Theory and Practice: Edward Levi’s “Elements of Law” (1982)
d) Conflicting Theories of Justice and Law in America (1983)
e) Natural and Instrumental Traditions of Law in America (1986)
f) Philosophical Origins of the United States Constitution (1987-1988)
g) Our Constitution: A Second American Revolution (1989)
h) Constitutional Theory: The Borderland Between Ethics and Law (1990)
i) American Laws Between Ideology and Philosophy (1993)
4. Politics of Contemporary France (1974—1 course)
5. Communist Political Thought (1977-1994—16 courses)
a) A Contribution to the Critique of Marxism-Leninism (1977, 1981)
b) A Critical Introduction to Marxism-Leninism (1978)
c) Communist Ideology: Experience, Analysis, and Critique (1980)
d) Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Communism (1982)
e) A Centennial Investigation of the Marxist Origins (1983)
f) NineteenEightyFour: Fantasy and Fact (1984)
g) Lenin and Leninism (1985)
h) Ideology and Utopia (1986)
i) The Soviet Ideology Today (1986)
j) Intellectual Origins of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1988) k) “Perestroika”: A New Form of Marxism-Leninism? (1989)
l) Fatal Flaws of the Communist Ideology (1990)
m) TheGodThatFailed Revisited (1992)
n) Utopia and Ideology (1993)
o) “Finish with a Curse What a Curse Began”—Karl Marx, 1836 (1994)
6. Modern Political Philosophy (1972-1996—12 courses) a) More and Machiavelli; Rousseau and Burke (1972-73)
b) The Systems of Hobbes and Hegel (1974)
c) The Spirit of Modernity (1974)
d) Justice and Law in Modern Political Philosophy (1975)
e) Critique of Modernity (1975)
f) Three Waves of Modernity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, Nietzsche (1981)
g) The Essence of Modernity (1983)
h) The Modern Project as Found in Private Correspondence (1985)
i) The Problem of Reform: More and Machiavelli; Rousseau and Burke; Nietzsche and Dostoevsky (1988)
j) The Problem of Time: From Bacon and Descartes to Nietzsche (1990) k) A Final Journey through the Modern Mind (1996)
7. Ancient and Medieval / Classical Political Philosophy (1972-96—27 courses) a) Plato and Aristotle, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas (1972)
b) The Platonic-Augustinian Tradition (1973)
c) Justice and Law in Antiquity (1974)
d) Socrates and the Socratic Tradition (1975)
e) Socrates: His Modern and Ancient Critics (1976)
f) Plato and the Platonic Tradition (Cicero, Augustine, More) (1976-79)
g) Aristotle (1977, 1980)
h) Socrates: The Republic of Plato (1978)
i) The Medieval Synthesis: Aquinas and Dante (1978, 1980)
j) Plato’s Trial of Socrates: The Republic (1982)
k) Colloquium: Plato’s Laws (1983)
l) The Founders and Their Progeny (1984)
m) Aristotelian Political Science: Ethics and Politics (1986)
n) Colloquium: St. Augustine’s City of God (1986)
o) Colloquium: St. Augustine’s Confessions (1987)
p) Plato (1987)
q) The Platonic Tradition and the Politics of Moderation (1989)
r) Major Contributions to the Classical Traditions (1991)
s) On the Good Life: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine (1993)
t) Colloquium: St. Thomas’ Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle (1996)
u) The Last Works of Plato, Cicero, and St. Augustine (1996)
8. Senior Honors Seminar: Ideals of Political Leadership in Literature—St.
Louis IX, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Joan of Arc, St. Thomas More (1991)
9. Introduc. to Political Inquiry / Political Thinking (1975; 1986-96—12 courses)
a) Philosophical Approaches to Politics (1975)
b) Exploring the Western Tradition (1986)
c) A Comprehensive Examination of the Human Condition (1988)
d) Continuities and Discontinuities in the Western Tradition (1991)
e) The Human Quest for Meaning (1992)
f) Political Reality: Macroscopic and Microscopic Views (1993-94)
g) Understanding Political Life as Ruling and Being Ruled (1995-96)
graduate courses:
10. Seminar in Political Thought (1974-1996—12 courses)
a) Two Humanisms in Contemporary French Political Philosophy (1974)
b) War and Peace in the History of Political Philosophy (1979)
c) Political Philosophy in the “Post Behavioral Era” (1980)
d) Political Science in the “Post Behavioral Era” (1981)
e) Political Philosophy and Statesmanship (1982)
f) Political Philosophy in the Nuclear Age (1984)
g) Politics and Religion: Judeo-Christianity in a Democratic Repub. (1985)
h) Federalist and Anti-Federalist: A Bicentennial Interpretation (1988)
i) Interpreting Tocqueville on Democracy and Revolution (1989)
j) The Politics of Courage (1990)
k) Toward a Philosophy of Democratic Government: Yves Simon (1993)
l) The Capstone: Maritain, Simon, Strauss and Voegelin at Chicago (1996)
VI – Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei
SummerSemestersinChristianPhilosophy (1981-2000 – 47 courses):
1. General Ethics [Moral Philosophy] (1981-91, ‘94, ‘95, ‘99—15 courses):
Arnold Hall; Shellbourne; Warwick
2. Social Ethics [Social and Political Philosophy] (1982-84, ‘86-88, ‘90-92, ’94,
’96, ’98, ’00—15 courses): Shellbourne; Arnold Hall; Warwick; Lincoln
Green
3. History of Philosophy [Ancient Greek and Roman] (1981, ‘95-97—4 courses):
Hedgerow; Arnold Hall; Shellbourne
[Medieval] (1993, 2000—2 courses): Arnold Hall; Shell.
[Early Modern] (1999—1 course): Roseaire
[Late Modern] (2000—1 course): Roseaire
4. Marxist Philosophy (1983-86, ’90—5 courses): Arnold Hall; Shellbourne;
Lincoln Green
5. Introduction to Philosophy (1996-98—3 courses): Windmoor; Arnold; Shell.
6. Philosophy of Knowledge (1997—1 course): Warwick
SummerSemestersinChristianTheology (1981-84, ’89, ’90, ’98 – 8 courses):
1. Social Doctrine of the Church (1981-84, ’89, ’90—6 courses): Arnold Hall;
Shellbourne
2. Liberation Theology (1989—1 course): Shellbourne
3. Moral Theology [Theological Virtues and Justice] (1998—1 course): Roseaire
SUMMARY OF COURSES:
I – University of Notre Dame – 17 courses (1958-65)
II – San Francisco State College – 4 courses (1967-68)
III – University of Chicago, College – 4 courses (1970-72)
IV – Purdue University, Calumet – 1 course (1971)
V – Illinois State University – 105 undergraduate courses (1972-96);
12 graduate courses (1974-96)
VI – Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei – 55 summer courses (1981-2000)
TOTAL COURSES:198 (1958-2000)
By decade: 4 (1950s)
17 (1960s)
41 (1970s)
80 (1980s)
53 (1990s)
3 (2000)