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The Challenge of Great Ideas

EDUCATION


Francis Bacon Of Studies
Jacob Bronowski The Reach of Imagination
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write
Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Scholar
Howard Gardner A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Richard Rodriguez Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood

ETHICS AND BELIEF


Ronald Dworkin Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher's Brief
Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor
William Hazlitt On the Pleasure of Hating
C. S. Lewis We Have No "Right to Happiness"
Bertrand Russell A Free Man's Worship
Peter Singer Animal Liberation
Peter Singer The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women

GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY


William Blake London
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto
George Orwell Politics and the English Language
Margaret Sanger The Cause of War
Mary Wollstonecraft From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

JUSTICE


Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail
Plato Crito
Sophocles Antigone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

MIND


Bruno Bettelheim Joey: A "Mechanical Boy"
Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud Libidinal Types
William James Habit
Samuel Johnson On Self-Love and Indolence
Plato The Allegory of the Cave

SCIENCE AND NATURE


Rachel Carson The Obligation to Endure
Charles Darwin Understanding Natural Selection
Stephen Jay Gould Evolution as Fact and Theory
Thomas S. Kuhn The Route to Normal Science
Steven Weinberg A Designer Universe?
Edward O. Wilson Is Humanity Suicidal?
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