POS 254 Political Ideologies
Class Materials

Readings

• Immanuel Kant, "What is Enlightenment?"
  
  
• John Locke, "Of Property"
  chap. 5 of Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690)
  
  
• John Locke, "Of the Dissolution of Government"
  chap. 19 of Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1690)
  
  
• The Declaration of Independence
  
  
• Michael Oakeshott, "On Being Conservative"
  from Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics (1962)
  
  
• The Republican Oath
  
  Republican Party Platform
  
  
• Democratic Party Platform
  

• Emma Goldman, "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For"
  from Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1917)
  
  
• Benito Mussolini, "The Doctrine of Fascism"
  
  
• Adolph Hitler, "The Twenty-Five Points"
  

• Adolph Hitler, excerpts from Mein Kampf
  
  
• Osama bin Laden, "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders"
• Osama bin Laden, "Letter to the American People"
• Osama bin Laden, October 2004 videotape transcript

• Josh McDowell, "Truth and Tolerance"
• Diane Passno, "The Feminist Mistake"
• Jerry Falwell, "The Left's Hidden Agenda"
• Charles Colson with Anne Morse, "Worldview Boot Camp"
• Tracy F. Munsil, "What's Your Worldview?"

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Handouts

• Core ideals of the Enlightenment
  
  
• Tenets of classical liberalism
  
  
• The conservative disposition
  
  
• The split in liberal thought
  
  
• Fascism and the Enlightenment
  
  
• Defining globalization
  
  
• Fundamentalism and the Enlightenment

• Questions and answers on Mill, Oakeshott