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Fall Semester
Republic
Plato
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Politics
Aristotle
New Testament
City of God
Augustine
The Qur'an
On Law, Morality and Politics
Thomas Aquinas
The Book of the Body Politic
Christine de Pizan
The Prince
Machiavelli
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Machiavelli
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
Leviathan
Hobbes
Second Treatise & Letter on Toleration
Locke
Discourse on Inequality & Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Spring Semester
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill
Selections from the Marx-Engels Reader
Karl Marx
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
Crises of the Republic
Hannah Arendt
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
Additional Readings
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
The Writings of David Hume
American Revolution and Founding Texts
The Hebrew Bible
The French Revolution
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Roman & Hellenistic Thought
Early Feminism
Medieval Philosophy
Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Georg Hegel
