Plato's Republic (selections)
- Lecture 1: Literary Genre, Historical Context, Main Themes
- Lecture 2: Origins of Human Communities
- Lecture 3: Developing the Guardians
- Lecture 4: Parts of the Human Soul
- Lecture 5: The Cardinal Virtues
- Lecture 6: Who Should Rule Down In the Cave? And Why?
Epictetus, The Discourses (selections)
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2:Where Philosophy Begins
- Lecture 3: What In In Our Power and What Is Not In Our Power
- Lecture 4: The Ruling Part, Rationality, and Our Faculty of Choice
- Lecture 5: Providence, God(s), and Human Beings
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2:Philosophy Personified
- Lecture 3: The Goods of Fortune
- Lecture 4: Human Desire For Happiness and the Genuine Good
- Lecture 5: The Workings of Providence, and Evil As Privation
- Lecture 6: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: The Quest for Certainty
- Lecture 3: The Rules of Method and the Provisional Morality
- Lecture 4: From Methodological Doubt to Thinking Substance
- Lecture 5: God's Existence and Nature
- Lecture 6: Minds, Machines and Animals
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: Materialism, Mechanism, and the Human Mind
- Lecture 3: The Passions
- Lecture 4: Hobbes' Views on Moral Philosophy
- Lecture 5: The State of Nature and Motives for Human Conflict
- Lecture 6: The Social Contract, Laws of Nature and the Sovereign
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: The Overarching Argument of the Work
- Lecture 3: Human Beings in the Original State of Nature
- Lecture 4: Nature to Culture - Major Developments of Human Beings
- Lecture 5: The Development of Human Moral Conceptions
- Lecture 6: The Inevitable Inequality of Human Civilizations
Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (selections)
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: Inequality, Barbarism, and Civilization
- Lecture 3: Reason, Virtue, and the Perfection of Human Nature
- Lecture 4: Education and Miseducation of Women
- Lecture 5: Marriage, Love and Friendship
- Lecure 6: Modesty as a Virtue
Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels), "Estranged Labor" and The Communist Manifesto
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: Four Modes of Alienation
- Lecture 3: Class Conflict and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie
- Lecture 4: The Emergence of the Proletariat in Industrial Society
- Lecture 5: The Party, the Proletariat, and the Communist Project
- Lecture 6: Communist Criticism of Other Forms of Socialism
Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" and Letter From a Birmingham Jail
- Lecture 1: Genre, Context, Themes
- Lecture 2: Racism, Inequality, and Segregation in America
- Lecture 3: Just and Unjust Laws
- Lecture 4: Non-Violent Action as a Means
- Lecture 5: Racial Justice as an End
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