The Death of Socrates, Metropolitan Museum
Photo Credit: JAC
Disclaimer: As with all our resources and especially Podcasts, inclusion does not necessarily mean endorsement of the views presented. Our aim was to include important presentations from multiple points of view so the researcher can form her own opinions—informed by a Christian world-view.
For better understanding the received (secular) & non-Christian traditions. We’ll be adding to this regularly....
-Classical Period
- ACI Summary Essay: A Brief Survey of Platonic and Aristotelian Thought.pdf
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Cicero
-Selected Influential Non-Christian (Islamic, Jewish) Sources from Medieval to the Renaissance
-Selected Sources From the Renaissance to Contemporary:
- Machiavelli: “The Prince”
- Good Reads Quotes
- Medieval Sourcebook: Nicolo Machiavelli
- The Prince (audio)
- Yale Courses: Introduction to Political Philosophy (Lecture 11- Machiavelli, The Prince)
- Thomas Hobbes: “The Leviathan”
- Rousseau: “The Social Contract”
- ACI Summary Essay: Survey of Key Figures In Modern Philosophy Period
- Alexis De Tocqueville
-Selected Contemporary Sources:
- Eugen Weber’s (Program 1 and following) “The Western Tradition”
- Harvard University Course (Michael Sandel) on: “Justice”
- Milton Freeman on various subjects including: Socialism and Freedom to Choose
- Billington, James. Fire in the Minds of Men. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. 1999.