In addition to the program texts, we will be reading the following, whole or in part. Links are also available on the syllabus page.
Hugh Wilder, "How To Read Philosophy" [1]
Fredrick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" [2]
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, Fifth Debate [3]
Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address" [4]
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism [5].
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, "The Subjection of Women" [6]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of the Rights of Women" [7]
Karl Marx, "Estranged Labor" [8]
Karl Marx, "Idealism and Materialism" [9] (from the German Ideology)
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto [10].