Humanities 1100 - Introduction to Humanities

What is freedom? What do we do with our freedom? To whom are we accountable? To God? To Law or to what Jean Jacques Rousseau called the “Social Contract.” What responsibilities do we have in this world? Should the rich feed and clothe the poor? Should those with the might to be free use it to help the enslaved? Should we, as human beings, protect the environment for future generations of people? For animals and plants and things?

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Every Human Has Rights: The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Ethnic Crises in the News:

The Crisis in Darfur, Sudan

Darfur is Dying video game

The Crisis in Gaza

Documents

• Abul A'la Maududi, "Political Theory of Islam"
• African Conceptions of Personhood
• Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
• Aquinas, St. Thomas, Summa Theologica, Question 94, Article 4
• Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book 1
• Constitution of the Congo

Restrictions on Civil Liberties of Muslim Americans
•Samantha Power, "Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States let the Rwandan Tragedy Happen"
• Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)
• Soren Kierkegaard, "A Panegyric on Abraham"