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Republic
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The Hebrew Bible
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Spring Semester
The Writings of David Hume
Discourse on Inequality and Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Immanuel Kant
American Revolution and Founding Texts
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
The French Revolution
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Georg Hegel
On Liberty and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill
Selections from the Marx-Engels Reader
Karl Marx
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Writings of Charles Darwin
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Writings of Sigmund Freud
Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf
