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VOLUME II Contents

 


Acknowledgements

Lynchburg College Symposium Readings, Senior Symposium, and the LCSR Program

Introduction to Volume II

 

I. FREEDOM

Introduction

Genesis

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Genesis 1:26-31, 2:1-25, and 3:1-24 (ca.1000 - 500 B.C.E.)

Hesiod

Works And Days, Chapter XI, Sections 106-201 (ca.700 B.C.E.)

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government, Book II Chapter II: Of the State of Nature (1690)

Denis Diderot

Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (1771)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I Have A Dream" (1963)

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, Chapter XIII: Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery" (1660)

II. AUTHORITY

Introduction

Aristotle

Politics, Books I, III, IV, and VII (350 B.C.E.)

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government, Chapter VIII, X, XI (1690)

James Madison

The Federalist Papers, Numbers 10, 47, and 51 (1788)

Charles Cotesworth Pinkney

McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract, Book I, Book II Chapters I-VI (1762)

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, Chapters XVII, XXI (1660)

Vladimir Lenin

The State and Revolution, Chapter I: Class Society and The State (1918)

Adolf Hitler

Hitler's Table Talk 1941-1944: May 14, 1942

Documents on the Holocaust. 1940-1945

Excerpts from

Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan (1940)

Reich Document (1941)

Anon., Lodz Ghetto (1942)

Heinrich Himmler, Speech (1943)

Kurt Gerstein, Notes (1945)

Jacob Wiernik, Evidence (1945)

Nuremberg Trials, Evidence (1947)

Akiva Underground paper, Editorial, Cracow (1943)

Chief Joseph

An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs, Chapter Two: Chief Joseph's Own Story (1879)

 

III. RESISTANCE

Introduction

Sophocles

Antigone (442 B.C.E.)

Plato

Apology, excerpts (399 B.C.E.)

Crito (399 B.C.E.)

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Live of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Chapter X (1845)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Civil Disobedience (1849)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

Vaclav Havel

"Power of the Powerless" (1978)