v.1. The Crito / Plato -- The Virtues / John Dewey -- Iphigeneia at Aulis / Euripides -- Politics / Aristotle -- Notes from the Underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Exodus / Bible. v.2. Origin of government / Thomas Hobbes -- Billy Budd, sailor / Herman Melville -- Wealth of nations / Adam Smith -- Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare -- The Knight of faith / Søren Kierkegaard -- v.3. The Persian wars / Herodotus -- Of civil government / John Locke -- Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau.