Contemporary Civilization Reader

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Fall 2010


Roman & Hellenistic Thought

 

Epicurus


   

 

Letter to Herodotus

Letter to Menoeceus

Principal Doctrines

Vatican Sayings


Medieval Philosophy

 

Al-Ghazali

 

Thomas Aquinas

 

 

Optional Readings

 

Julian of Norwich

Ibn Rushd (Averroës)

Moses Maimonides


The Rescuer from Error & Islamic Philosophical Writings (1.47 MB)

 

The Summa Against the Gentiles

On Kingship

The Summa of Theology

 

 

 

 

Revelations of Divine Love(968 KB)

 

On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy

 

The Guide of the Perplexed


Scientific Revolution

 

Galileo Galilei


Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany Concerning the Use of Bibilical Quotations in Matters of Science (1615)

The New World

 

Vitoria

 

On The American Indians (5.56 MB)

 

 

Bartolomé de Las Casas



Apologetic History of the Indies

Thirty Very Juridical Propositions

 

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

 

Democrates Alter; Or, On the Just Causes for War Against the Indians

   

Locke Optional Reading

Locke on Toleration



SPRING 2011

 

Immanuel Kant

What Is Enlightenment?


Optional Readings

 

Michel Foucault

 

What is Enlightenment?

 

 

Smith

 

Theory of Moral Sentiments


 

 

 

 

US Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

Optional Readings

 

Frederick Douglass

 

 

Declaration of Independence

US Constitution

The Bill of Rights

Hamilton, Federalist 1

Jay, Federalist 2

Hamilton, Federalist 9

Madison, Federalist 10

Hamilton, Federalist 23

Madison, Federalist 47

Hamilton, Federalist 84

 

 

 

Anti-Federalist Writings


What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

 

 

French Revolution

 

 

Robespierre

 

Abbé Sieyès

 

 

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen: Preface to the Constitution of 1789

 

 

On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy

 

 

What Is The Third Estate

Optional Readings

   

Preface to the Constitution of 1793

1805 Haitian Consitution

Du Bois Optional Reading

 

W.E.B. Du Bois

 

The Souls of White Folk

 

 

 


 

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