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| Title | Date |
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| Hymn to the Nile, ca. 2100 B.C. | 2100 B.C. |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh | 2000 B.C. |
| Egyptian Social and Religious Customs | 470 B.C. |
| Socrates' Apology | 399 B.C. |
| The Customs of Spartans, ca. 390 B.C. | 390 B.C. |
| Cicero on Friendship and Faction | 43 |
| An Ethical Plea to the Emperor Nero, ca. A.D. 67 | 67 |
| Three Early Sermons | 75 |
| Reflections of the Last "Good Emperor," ca. 170 | 170 |
| From the Age of Gold to the Age of Rust | 215 |
| Philosophy in the Age of Alexander: Aristotle's Politics | 325 |
| The Law Code of Justinian, ca. 550 | 550 |
| Alcuin: A Panegyric for an Emperor | 790 |
| Dhuoda's Advice to Her Son | 841 |
| Hrabanus Maurus: A Scholar's Poem to a Friend | 845 |
| Petrarch's Love for Writing | 1350 |
| A View of Early Renaissance Society: Piers Plowman | 1380 |
| English as a Literary Language: Chaucer | 1385 |
| Bruni Defends the Humanities | 1431 |
| Oration on the Dignity of Man | 1486 |
| Erasmus: Exemplar of Humanist Values in Scholarship, 1509 | 1509 |
| Russian Church "Reform": Moscow as "Third Rome" | 1515 |
| The Religious Views of the Utopians | 1516 |
| Poking Fun at the Clergy, 1516 | 1516 |
| Luther's Ninety-Five Theses | 1517 |
| Protestant Disunity | 1529 |
| Rabelais's Pantagruel, 1532 | 1532 |
| Copernicus on the Earth's Revolution | 1543 |
| The Theory of Absolutism | 1576 |
| Skepticism Regarding Witch Hunts | 1588 |
| Shakespeare and Social Order | 1600 |
| Bacon's Reasoning | 1600 |
| The First Modern Novel: Cervantes's Don Quixote | 1605 |
| The Starry Messenger | 1610 |
| Bacon on the New Science | 1620 |
| Circulation of the Blood | 1628 |
| "I Think, Therefore I Am" | 1637 |
| Jansenists vs. Jesuits | 1656 |
| Louis XIV's Advice to His Heir | 1661 |
| A Challenge to the Existence of Evil | 1670 |
| Kings Answer to God Alone | 1675 |
| Bayle Ridicules Some Superstitions Circulating About Comets | 1682 |
| The Spirit of Tolerance | 1686 |
| Newton's Principles | 1687 |
| God's Universe | 1687 |
| John Locke Defends the Glorious Revolution | 1690 |
| Small Latin and Less Greek | 1693 |
| The Spectator and Coffee-House Culture | 1711 |
| The Spirit of Intolerance | 1721 |
| The Proper Study of Mankind | 1733 |
| Frederick the Great Writes Voltaire | 1736 |
| Montesquieu on the Ideal Form of Government | 1748 |
| The Anti-Machiavel | 1750 |
| A Just Complaint | 1755 |
| Candide | 1759 |
| Rousseau Presents His Ideal Form of Government | 1762 |
| Forced to Be Free! | 1762 |
| Voltaire and Catherine the Great | 1765 |
| The Thirteen Colonies Declare Independence | 1776 |
| The Benevolent Invisible Hand of Natural Liberty | 1776 |
| My Three Sons | 1779 |
| State and Religion | 1783 |
| Will We Ever Grow Up? | 1785 |
| The French Revolutionaries Declare Their Rights | 1789 |
| Pain and Pleasure | 1789 |
| The Conservative Response from Britain | 1790 |
| A Justification of Terror | 1794 |
| The Religious Consciousness | 1799 |
| Fichte Addresses the German Nation | 1806 |
| The Ignorance of the Enlightenment | 1808 |
| Society Does Not Really Need Government | 1820 |
| "The Course of World History" | 1837 |
| Stop Asking "Why?"! | 1842 |
| Theology Is Anthropology | 1843 |
| Alienated Labor | 1844 |
| Belinsky and Gogol Argue Over Russian Identity | 1847 |
| The Communist Manifesto | 1848 |
| The Most Precious Thing for Man | 1864 |
| On Liberty for Women | 1869 |
| "The Melancholy Winter of 1826-7" | 1873 |
| History and Getting on with Life | 1874 |
| What Is a Nation? | 1882 |
| The Democratic Aristocracy of Athens | 1893 |
| Herzl's State | 1896 |
| What Is to Be Done? | 1902 |
| The Unconscious | 1909 |
| How Ideas Caused the Revolution | 1910 |
| Mussolini on the War's Significance | 1914 |
| Was Athens in the Age of Pericles Aristocratic? | 1919 |
| "A Total Conception of Life" | 1925 |
| Liberalism = Smith + Bentham | 1928 |
| The War as Inner Experience | 1929 |
| An Appeal to Reason | 1931 |
| The Religion of Liberty | 1932 |
| A Jewish State | 1948 |
| "The Most Important Book of the Century" | 1955 |
| The Drowned and the Saved | 1958 |
| The Intellectual Revolution of the 1890s | 1958 |
| Liberty: Freedom from, or Freedom to? | 1959 |
| Religion Caused the Reformation | 1960 |
| Humanism as Philosophic Organism | 1966 |
| Fiat Lux | 1966 |
| The Phenomenon of Relic Theft | 1978 |
| Socialist Ideas in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century | 1978 |
| Power of the Powerless | 1978 |
| What Was the Influence of the Egyptians on Greece? | 1987 |
| The Fall of the Wall | 1989 |
| The Cultural Origins of Revolutionary Violence | 1991 |
| The Putney Debates | 1992 |
| Nationalism as a Modern Phenomenon | 1992 |
| The Legacies of Revolution | 1995 |
| The Problem with the "Rights" | 1996 |
| Egypt's Influence on Greece, Reconsidered | 1996 |
| Constructing Nationhood | 1997 |
| Ingenious Pursuits | 1999 |
| Revolutionizing Science | 2001 |
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