For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page.
Bible, Genesis 17-22 on Abraham, Lot, Sarah, Isaac, Hagar, and Ishmael (c. 500s BCE).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841).
James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance (1785; on separating religion and state).
Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” (360 BCE) [HTML].