INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
SUMMER SEMINAR: MORALITY, CAPITALISM, AND FREEDOM
Wake Forest University
July 24-30, 2010

Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty Leading the People on the Barricades" (1830)

David Hart's lecture handouts and overheads:

1. The State and the Ruling Class
2. The State and Modern War
3. A Brief History of Bills of Rights
4. The Culture of Liberty vs. the Culture of Authority and Obedience

 

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1. The State and the Ruling Class

1. Lecture Outline and Recommended Reading [PDF]
2. More detailed bibliography [PDF]
3. Lecture Slide Show [PDF 1 MB]
4. Quotations about The Ruling Class [PDF]

Illustration from John Wade's Extraordinary Black Book (1834)

 

2. The State and Modern War

1. Lecture Outline, Recommended Reading, & Filmography [PDF]
2. Slide show of lecture [2.7 PDF]
3. Video clips:
   1. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
   2. The Americanization of Emily (1964)

Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" (1937)

 

Honoré Daumier, "The Army Hierarchy" (1850s)

 

3. A Brief History of Bills of Rights

1. Lecture Outline and Additional Recommended Reading [PDF]
2. The Two Traditions of Rights [PDF]
3. Who has rights? [PDF]
4. Lecture Handout: Anthology of Bills of Rights [PDF]
5. Slide Show for Lecture [4.3 MB PDF]
6. Additional Bills of Rights [PDF]
7. Video clips:
   1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Robin confronts Prince John
   2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - the Saxons meet in the forest and take an oath to resist oppression

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

 

4. The Culture of Liberty vs. the Culture of Obedience

1. Lecture Outline, Recommended Reading, & Filmography [PDF]
2. Slide show for lecture [8.1 MB PDF]
3. Video clip - Dead Poets Society (1989) - marching to the beat of a different drummer

Jacques-Louis David, "Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard Pass" (1805)