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Sophie Scholl -
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Simone Weil -
Lucretia Mott -
Jimmy Carter -
Fannie Lou Hamer -
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Mother Theresa -
The Second Selma March -
John Lewis
"Peace begins with a smile."
--Mother Theresa
An up to date Revolution Ethics Project curriculum can be found here
Below is a quick list of some of the readings and thinkers we study:
- Howard Thurman
- Henri Nouwen
- Harriet Tubman
- Wendell Berry
- Aristotle and Virtue Ethics
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker Movement
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Michel Foucault and power
- Thich Nhat Hanh
- Immanuel Kant and Absolutism
- Utilitarian Ethics
- Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel
- Thorstein Veblen and Conspicuous Consumption
- Eugene Debs and the underclass
- Mother Theresa
- Martin Luther King and Civil Disobedience, Dangerous Altruism
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Delores Huerta
- Pope Francis
- Teresa of Avila
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Ethics"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, saying vs. showing, the mystical
- Elizabeth Anscombe
- William Sloane Coffin, "Wonder, Anger, Love"
- Khalil Gibran, seeing the world with Wonder
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Alisdair MacIntyre and "After Virtue"
- Leo Tolstoy, "The Kingdom of God is Within You"
- Abraham Joshua Heschel, "The Sabbath"
- The Buddha and the "Golden Mean"