I. Politics & Morality

Reading Selections:
The Prince, Machaivelli
The Apology of Socrates, Plato
Macbeth, Shakespeare

Film Scenes:
Elizabeth
A Bronx Tale
Primary Colors
City Hall

II.Self-Love & Ambition

Reading Selections:
Perpetuation Speech, Lincoln
On the Natural Aristocracy,Jefferson
Equality and Ambition,Tocqueville
Self-love and Selfishness, Rousseau
On Maganamity,Aristotle
Coriolanus, Shakespeare

Film Scenes:
Henry V
Patton
All the King's Men
Bull Durham

III. Property, Commerce,
& the Romantic Critique

Reading Selections:
On Property, Locke
Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
Discourse on the Origin Of Inequality, Rousseau
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx

Film Scenes:
Instinct
Other People's Money
Dead Poets Society
High Noon

IV. Slavery, Race, & American Liberalism

Readings Selections:
On Paternal Authority, Locke
Declaration of Independence, Jefferson
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Douglass
Exposition Speech, Washington
The Talented Tenth, DuBois
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, King
I Have a Dream, King

Film Scenes:
Amistad
Glory
Separate But Equal
Lone Star

V. War & Peace

Reading Selections:

Of Just War, Augustine
Christians and War, Aquinas
Perpetual Peace, Kant
On War, Clausewitz


Film Scenes:
Fail Safe
The Americanization of Emily
Michael Collins
Saving Private Ryan

VI. Love & Politics

Reading Selections:
Leviathan, Hobbes
Symposium, Plato
Histories, Herodotus
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare

Film Scenes:
Casablanca
The English Patient
Shakespeare in Love
Much Ado About Nothing