: 3:20–4:55pm, via Zoom only. Jonathan Edwards
(1703–1758), Dissertation Concerning the Nature of True Virtue
(published posthumously, 1765), selections.
: Via Zoom only. Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the
Declaration of Independence; Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), “Short
Review of the Declaration” (1776); Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) (and
Thomas Jefferson), Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker to theSecretary of State, with his Answer (1792); William Apess (1798–1839),
short selection from Indian Nullification (1835); Harriet Martineau
(1802–1878), short selection from Society in America (1837); Margaret
Fuller (1810–1850), “The Fourth of July” (1845).
: Thoreau, Walden (1854), “Economy,” pp. 1–7 (through
“on that basis”), 10–13 (from “If I should attempt” to “of the earth”), 47–52
(from “But all this is very” through “like the cypress”); “Solitude” pp. 84–8
(from “There is commonly” through “friends sometimes”); “Visitors,”
pp. 93–100 (from “As for men” through “that race”); “The Village,”
pp. 108–12; “Baker Farm,” pp. 130–36; “Brute Neighbors,” pp. 148–50
(from “I was witness” through “Fugitive-Slave Bill”); “Conclusion,”
pp. 206–16.
: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963), “The Conservation of Races”
(1897); from The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903): “The
Forethought”; “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”; “Of the Wings of Atalanta”;
“Of the Faith of the Fathers”; “Of the Sorrow Songs”.
: Du Bois, from Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil
(1920): “Credo”; “The Souls of White Folk”; “The Riddle of the Sphinx”;
“Of the Ruling of Men”; “Beauty and Death”.
: George Grant (1918–1988), Lament for a Nation: theDefeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965), ch.’s 3–5 (pp. 26–66). For
background, you may want to look at the Wikipedia article on John
Diefenbaker, especially this section and this section.
: V.F. Cordova (1935–2002), How It Is: The NativeAmerican Philosophy of V.F. Cordova, “Bridges” (pp. 11–45), “Windows
on Academics” and “Windows on Native American Philosophy”
(pp. 49–60); “They Have a Different Idea about That …” (pp. 69–75);
“Becoming Human” (pp. 165–70). Second writing assignment due.
