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Preface: Dear Violet
1. What Do I Know?—Plato, Apology
2. When Is It Right to Do the Wrong Thing?—Plato, Crito
3. Have We Become Gods?—Aristophanes, The Clouds
4. Is There Any Justice in the World?—Plato, Republic
5. What Is Happiness?—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I
6. Is the Customer King?—Aristotle, Politics, Book I
7. Who Should Be in Charge?—Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus
8. The State as Church—Plutarch, The Life of Numa Pompilius
9. Punch the Bully in the Face—Plutarch, The Life of Alexander
10. Hubris—Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar
11. What Would Jesus Do?—St. Matthew, The Gospel of Jesus Christ
12. Can People Change?—St. Luke, The Acts of the Apostles
13. How Can God Let Bad Things Happen?—St. Augustine, The Confessions
14. Do the Ends Justify the Means?—Machiavelli, The Prince
15. What’s Your Major?—Montaigne, Of the Education of Children
16. Is America Exceptional?—Montaigne, Of Cannibals
17. Why Am I Afraid?—Montaigne, That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure Upon the Opinion We Have of Them
18. What Don’t I Know?—Montaigne, That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
19. What If Life Is Meaningless?—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
20. What Is Government For?—John Locke, Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government
21. What’s Best for Everyone?—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
22. Are Gods Immortal?—Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapters 15-16
23. What Are “American Values”?—Various, including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, The Declaration of Independence
24. Your Rights* *Subject to Change at Any Time.—Various, The Constitution of the United States
25. Is Greed Good?—Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
26. Does Capitalism Work?—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party
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