Educational. The Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius. Jesus Christ and his philosophy. Thomas Aquinas and the synthesis of Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman thought. Martin Luther and the Reformation. The Enlightenment. John Locke, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Descartes, Kant, ect. How Western Civilization culminates in the formation of the United States of America. The Founding Fathers and the American Philosophy.