The Aspen Institute
Wye Deans’ Seminar
Citizenship in the American and Global Polity
June 9-13, 2013
Aspen Wye River Conference Center
Table of Contents
Opening Evening
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Curse for a Nation”
Session I:
Our Founding Faiths
John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”
The Declaration of Independence
Preamble of the Constitution of the United States
Abigail and John Adams, Selected Letters
Seneca Falls Declaration
David Walker, Walker’s Appeal
Abraham Lincoln, First and Second Inaugural Addresses
Robert N. Bellah, “Civil Religion in America”
Session II:
What is a Good Society?
Plato, The Republic, Book II, selections
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, selections
Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Chapters 1–6, selections
Confucius, Analects, selections
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, selections
Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapters 1–8
Session III:
Leadership
Plato, The Republic, Book VII, selection
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, “The Melian Conference”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapters 14-18, 25, selections
John Dewey, “Creative Democracy: The Task Before Us”
Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”
Ella Baker, “Developing Community Leadership”
Constance H. Buchanan, “The Erosion of Authority” in Choosing to Lead
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Session IV:
Leadership II
Sophocles, Antigone (see booklet)
Session V:
Globalization and Responsibility
Islam: The Five Pillars of Faith in the Qur’an
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Fareed Zakaria, “Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan
Yew,” in Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 2, March/April 1994
Ronald Reagan, “Evil Empire” Speech, March 8, 1983
Barack Obama, “Remarks on a New Beginning,”
Cairo University, June 4, 2009
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation
for Women and Islam, selections from “Breaking Through the
Islamic Curtain” and “A Call for Clear Thinking”
Aung San Suu Kyi, “A Culture of Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights,”
address to a meeting of the World Commission on Culture and
Development, Manila, November 21, 1994
Appendix
About the Authors
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