Discovering the Humanities
"Desire" by Helen Hoyt
A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humanistic Thinking
Deep Comprehension
Literature Toolkit
Poetry Toolkit
Visual Art Toolkit
Music Toolkit
Critical Analysis
Elements of Critical Analysis
Analyzing Arguments
Identifying Fallacies
Meaningful Contribution
Message
Style
Audience
Chapter 2: Growth, Obstacles, and Grit
The Garden of Eden
"Paradise Lost" by John Milton
"Invictus" by William Ernest Henley
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
"Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee," Rembrandt van Rijn
Chapter 3: Individual, Collective, and Identity
Republic, Plato
Apology, Plato
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
"Misery" by Anton Chekhov
"I am!" by John Clare
"Good Friday" by Christina Rossetti
"On a Columnar Self" by Emily Dickinson
"A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" by Édouard Manet
"Melancholy" by Edvard Munch
Chapter 4: Time, Memory, and Impermanence
"Now I Become Myself" by May Sarton
"The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
"Loveliest of Trees" by A. E. Houseman
"Impression, Sunrise" by Claude Monet
"The Unanswered Question" by Charles Ives
Byzantine Iconoclasm
Christ as the Good Shepherd from the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
The Lamentation from the Church of Saint Panteleimon
The Christ Pantocrator from St. Catherine's Monastery
Apse Semi-Dome of the Basilica of Sant'Appolinare
The Crucifixion of St. Catherine's Monastery
The Holy Doors Diptych: Annunciation from St. Catherine's Monastery
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George from St. Catherine's Monastery
Emperor Justinian Mosaic from San Vitale
Ontological Exploration on Virtue 1
Chapter 5: Life, Death, and Loss
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
"Batter my Heart, three-person'd God" by John Donne
"To Autumn" by John Keats
"When I am dead, my dearest" by Christina Rossetti
"To Be or Not to Be," Hamlet by William Shakespeare
"Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe
"Death, be not proud" by John Donne
Kindertotenlieder, Gustav Mahler
Chapter 6: Faith, Knowledge, and Inquiry
An Overview of the Trial of Galileo
Scriptural References
Selected Letters
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
The Conservative Judge
The Liberal Judge
The Manipulated Leader
The Diplomat
The Scientist
The Zealot
"Disciple-Scholars" by Neal A Maxwell
"The School of Athens" by Raphael Sanzio da Urbino
Chapter 7: Freedom, Law, and Responsibility
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Of the State of Nature by John Locke
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
"Nuns Fret Not at their Convent's Narrow Room" by William Wordsworth
High Waving Heather by Emily Jane Brontë
Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell
Napoleon on His Imperial Throne by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 by Ludwig von Beethoven "Eroica"
Ontological Exploration on Virtue 2
"The Philosopher in Meditation" by Rembrandt
Chapter 8: Truth, Error, and Perception
Republic by Plato
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzche
Truth—Is as Old as God— by Emily Dickinson
XXVIII "Truth," Said a Traveler by Stephen Crane
All is Truth by Walt Whitman
A Legend of Truth by Rudyard Kipling
Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare
Madonna and Child by Carlo Crivelli
Vexierbilder by Erhard Schön
The Madison Avenue Beat by Lester Lanin
Chapter 9: Strength, Humility, and Meekness
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by Mother Teresa
"I have a dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We Shall Fight on the Beaches, Winston Churchill
"Quit India" by Mahatma Gandhi
"The Ladder of St. Augustine" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Prodigal's Return" by Sir Edward John Pointer
"On Virtue" by Phillis Wheatley
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman
"Jesus and Peter on the Water" by Gustave Brion
"The Calling of St. Matthew" by Caravaggio
The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Chapter 10: Talent, Skill, and Creativity
Who Cares if You Listen? by Milton Babbit
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Tradition and the Individual Talent by T.S. Elliot
Heiligenstadt Testament, Ludwig van Beethoven
"Night Cafe in Arles" by Vincent Van Gogh
Your Elusive Creative Genius by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Pietà" by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Epilogue
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