"Liberty and Justice for All"

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"

Fredrick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, Fifth Debate

Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address"

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, "The Subjection of Women" 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of the Rights of Women"

Karl Marx, "Estranged Labor"

Karl Marx, "Idealism and Materialism" (from the German Ideology)

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto.