Supplemental Readings:
The Sophists
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Francis Bacon, "Idols of the Mind" (from Novum Organum)
Responses to Descartes on Body-Mind Dualism
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Voltaire, Candide
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
James Madison, The Federalist Papers
Karl Marx, "Preface" (from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy)
Sigmund Freud, Ego and Id
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov)
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks