Rhetorical Eloquence
- Aristotle, On Rhetoric
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Cicero, On the Orator
- Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
- Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric
Writing about Literature
- No thread texts
Polis and Covenant
- The Old Testament
- Homer
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Plato, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Republic
- Aristotle, The Politics (or) the Ethics
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia (or) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone
- Epicurus
- Hinge – Polybius, The Histories
Caesar and Christ
- Hinge – Polybius, The Histories
- The New Testament
- Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
- Cicero, On Duties
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Hinge – Augustine, The Confessions
Christendom and Islam
- Hinge – Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
- Beowulf
- The Koran
- Aquinas, Summa
- Dante, Divine Comedy
- Chaucer, Canturbury Tales
- Hinge – Petrarch, Letters to Dead Authors, Ascent of Mt. Ventous, Letter to Posterity
Humanism and Reform
- Hinge – Petrarch, The Secret
- Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- Pico, Oration on the Dignity of Man
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- More, Utopia
- Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince, In Praise of Folly
- Luther, On Christian Freedom
- Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Shakespeare
- Hinge – Milton, Paradise Lost
Reason and Revolt
- Hinge – Milton, Areopagitica, On Education
- Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
- Bacon, Novum Organum
- Descartes, Discourse on Method and the Meditations
- Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
- Pope, Essay on Man
- Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings
- Johnson, Rasselas
- Shelley, Frankenstein
- Austen
- Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Hinge – Goethe, The Sorrows of young Werther
Despair and Hope
- Hinge – Goethe, Faust
- Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
- Hegel, On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy
- Darwin, Origin of Species
- Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground
- Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
- Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
- Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
- Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Huxley, Brave New World
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Plantinga
Roots of American Order
- Locke, Second Treatise
- Smith, Wealth of Nations
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution
- Federalist Papers
- Calhoun
- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, First Inaugural
- Frederick Douglass, Autobiography
Christian Vocation and Worldview
- Newman, The Idea of a University
- Niebuhr, Christ and Culture
- Guinness, The Call
- Postman, Technopoly
- Lewis, The Abolition of Man