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Week I

Joseph Dorman, Arguing the World: The New York Intellectuals in Their Own Words. New York: The Free Press, 2000.

http://www.pbs.org/arguing/

Week II 

Plato:                

The Republic      

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html

The Crito

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

Aristotle:  

Politics

http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html

Week III

Machiavelli:     

The Prince                                                                                                                                            

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/machiavelli.html

Discourses          

http://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy_.htm

Week IV

Hobbes:  

Leviathan 

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/h68l/

Locke:

The Second Treatise on Civil Government 

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/locke/lockcont.htm

Week V                                      

Rousseau:  

The Social Contract

http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm

Jefferson: 

Declaration of Independence

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/decmain.html

Act for Establishing Religious Freedom

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/biog/lj12.htm

Letters

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html

Mill: 

On Liberty

http://www.bartleby.com/130/

Week VI            

Marx and Engels:

Manifesto of the Communist Party 

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

Engels: Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1880-SUS/

Marx: Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/index.htm

Lenin: State and Revolution                                                                                                                           

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/staterev/ch01.htm

Week VII

Mussolini:

The Doctrine of Facism

http://www.constitution.org/tyr/mussolini.htm

Hitler:

Mein Kampf 

http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/

Week VIII

Dewey:

Reconstruction in Philosophy & Ethics 

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/dewey.htm

http://www.wku.edu/~garreje/dewethic.htm

Thoreau:

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 

http://www.literatureproject.com/civil-disobedience/civil-disobedience.htm 

Gandhi:

Non-Violent Resistance

http://www.gandhiinstitute.org/

http://www.mahatma.org.in/index.jsp

http://web.mahatma.org.in/

Week IX & X   Michael Walzer, Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War, and Citizenship, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.

http://www.sss.ias.edu/home/walzer.html