First Semester

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

Sep 4 Th

Homer:
Iliad I–V

Plutarch:
Alexander, Caesar

Cervantes:
Don Quixote Prologue, I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace I–II

Sep 8 M

Homer:
Iliad VI–XII

Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things I–III

Cervantes:
Don Quixote I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace III–IV

Sep 11Th

Homer:
Iliad XIII–XVIII

Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things IV–VI

Cervantes:
Don Quixote I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace V–VI

Sep 15 M

Homer:
Iliad XIX–XXIV

Virgil:
Aeneid I–VI

Cervantes:
Don Quixote II

Tolstoy:
War and Peace VII–IX

Sep 18 Th

Sappho:
Poems

Virgil:
Aeneid VII–XII

Cervantes:
Don Quixote II

Tolstoy:
War and Peace X–XI

Sep 22 M

Homer:
Odyssey I–VIII

Tacitus:
Annals I–III

John of the Cross:
Spiritual Canticle

Tolstoy:
War and Peace XII–XV

Sep 25 Th

Homer:
Odyssey IX–XVI

Tacitus:
Annals IV, VI, XI–XII

Montaigne:
Apology for Raimond Sebonde

Tolstoy:
War and Peace Epilogue

Sep 29 M

Homer:
Odyssey XVII–XXIV

Bible:
Genesis

Montaigne:
Apology for Raimond Sebonde

Goethe:
Faust pp. 64–209

Oct 2 Th

Aeschylus:
Agamemnon

Bible:
Exodus

Calderon de la Barca:
Life is a Dream

Goethe:
Faust pp. 209–359

Oct 6 M

Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers

Bible:
Samuel, Kings

Descartes:
Meditations Preface, Synopsis, 1–3

Goethe:
Faust pp. 359–end

Oct 9 Th

Aeschylus:
Eumenides

Bible:
Psalms

Descartes:
Meditations 4–6

Hegel:
Philosophy of History Preface, Introduction

Oct 13 M

Herodotus: 
Histories pp. 3–40, 80­–85, 372–94, 403–50

Bible:
Job

Hobbes:
Leviathan I.1–16

Hegel:
Philosophy of History, The Oriental World

Oct 16 Th

Herodotus:
Histories pp. 451–543

Aristotle:
On the Soul II.1–7, 11–12

Hobbes:
Leviathan II.17–21, 24–30

Lao Tzu:
Tao Te Ching

Oct 20 M

Plato:
Meno

Aristotle:
On the Soul III.3–13

Pascal:
Pensées pp. 33–87, 149–155

Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling - through Problema I

Oct 23 Th

Plato:
Symposium 172–198a

Bible:
Mark, Matthew

Pascal:
Pensées pp. 86–139, 209–212, 309–310

Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments Preface–Chapter III

Oct 27 M

Plato:
Symposium 198a–end

Bible:
Luke, Acts of the Apostles

Milton:
Paradise Lost I–IV

Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments Chapter IV–V

Oct 30 Th

Bible:
John

Milton:
Paradise Lost V–VIII; Arguments IX–XII

Dickinson:
Selected Poetry (handout)

Nov 3 M

Plato:
Apology, Crito

Bible:
Romans

Spinoza:
Ethics I.i–xiii, II.i–xxxv

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov I–III

Nov 6 Th

Bible:
Hebrews

Locke:
Second Treatise of Civil Government I–VIII

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov IV–V

Nov 10 M

Plato:
Phaedo 84c–end

Plotinus:
Enneads

Locke:
Second Treatise of Civil Government IX–XIX

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov VI–VII

Nov 13 Th

Intramural Seminar: Moliere - Tartuffe

Nov 17 M

Plato:
Republic I

Augustine:
Confessions I–V

Racine:
Phedre

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov VIII–IX

Nov 20 Th

Plato:
Republic II–III

Augustine:
Confessions VI–VIII

Leibniz:
Vindication of God's Justice

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov X–XI

Nov 24 M

Plato:
Republic IV–V

Augustine:
Confessions IX–X

Leibniz:
Monadology

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov XII–Epilogue

Dec 1 M

Plato:
Republic VI–VII

Augustine:
Confessions XI–XIII

Locke:
Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Nietzsche:
Genealogy of Morals Essays I–II

Dec 4 Th

Plato:
Republic VIII–IX

Anselm: Proslogium, Gaunilon, Fool, Reply

Locke:
Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Nietzsche:
Genealogy of Morals Essays III

Dec 8 M

Plato:
Republic X

Thomas Aquinas:
Principles of Nature, 1–3, Being and Essence Pro., 1–4

Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver's Travels I–II

Flaubert:
Madame Bovary to Pt. II, ch. 10

Dec 11 Th

Aristophanes:
Birds

Hildegard of Bingen:
Scivias

Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver's Travels III–IV; Letter to Cuz Sympson

Flaubert:
Madame Bovary finish

Second Semester

Feb 9 M

Plato:
Theaetetus 142–178

Thomas Aquinas:
De Ente et Essentia, page 90-106; Quaestiones Disputate de Potentia, 7.2, page 202-209.

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 1–3

Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn 1–22

Feb 12 Th

Plato:
Theaetetus 178–end

Thomas Aquinas:
Commentary on Aristotle’s De Memoria et Reminiscentia, 449b30-450a25, page 138-144; Summa Theologiae, 1a.79.2-3, page 145-149; Summa Contra Gentiles, 2.77, page 150-152; Summa Theologiae, 1a2ae. 22-3, page 156-159, 1a.2.1-3, page 195-202.  

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 4–8

Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn 23–end

Feb 16 M

Plato:
Gorgias 447a–481b

Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Contra Gentiles, 2.47-8, page 169-171; Quaestiones Disputate de Malo, 3.1-2, page 289-296, 6, page 171-183. 

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 9–13

Marx: 
Capital Ch.1; ch.2 paragraphs 1-3; ch. 3 section 2 (pp.125-180; 198-220)

Feb 19 Th

Plato:
Gorgias 481b–527e

Thomas Aquinas:
Compendium to Theology 24–68, 202–212

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 14–18

Feb 23 M

Thucydides:
Peloponnesian Wars
pp 35–49, 53–67, 72–87, 118–64

Dante:
Inferno 1–17

Vico:
The New Science I, II

Marx: 
Capital Ch. 10 sections 2–3 (first paragraph); sectiion 5 (paragraphs 1-8); chs. 11–13 (pp. 340-353; 375-381; 417-454)

Feb 26 Th

Dante:
Inferno 18–34

Vico:
The New Science III

Marx: 
Capital Ch. 14 sections 1, 4–5; ch. 15 sections 2, 3a (paragraphs 1–2), 3b, 3c (paragraphs 1–5), 4, 9 (paragraphs 7-11 and last paragraph), 10 (pp. 455-458; 470-491; 508-517; 526-537; 544-553; 617-623; 635; 636-639)

Mar 2 M

Thucydides:
Peloponnesian Wars
pp 414–42, 447–77, 478–537

Dante:
Purgatorio 1–11

George Berkeley:
Three Dialogues I

 Mar 5 Th

Aristotle:
Ethics I–II

Dante:
Purgatorio 12–22

George Berkeley:
Three Dialogues II, III

Marx:
Wage Labor and Capital

 Mar 9 M

Aristotle:
Ethics III

Dante:
Purgatorio 23–33

Hume:
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Melville:
Billy Budd

 Mar 12 Th

Aristotle:
Ethics IV.2–3, V.1–7, VII.1–3, 11–14

Dante:
Paradiso 1–11

Hume:
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

James: 
Psychology Introductory, chs. 1, 2, and 3 (omitting pp. 72-83)

 Mar 16 M

Aristotle:
Ethics VIII–IX

Dante:
Paradiso 12–22

Rousseau:
Discourse on Inequality

James: 
Psychology Chs. 15 and 17

 Mar 19 Th

Aristotle:
Ethics X

Dante:
Paradiso 23–33

Rousseau:
Discourse on Inequality

James: 
Psychology Epilogue

 Mar 23 M

Sophocles:
Oedipus the King

Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales Prologue, Prologue and Tale: Knight

Diderot:
Rameau's Nephew

Freud:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis I–VI

Mar 26 Th

Sophocles:
Antigone

Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales Prologues and Tales: Reeve, Cook, Miller, Wife of Bath, Friar, Summoner

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals I

Freud:
Lectures  VII, XIII, XIV

 Mar 30 M

Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus

Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales Prologues and Tales: Shipman, Nun's Priest, Pardoner, Franklin, Manciple, Retraction

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals II

Freud:
Lectures XVII - XIX

 Apr 2 Th

Aristotle:
Poetics

Machiavelli:
The Prince

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals III

Freud:
Lectures XX-XXIV

Apr 16 Th

Rabelais:
Gargantua I

Austen:
Emma, I, II.1–8

Jung:
Essay: "Psychology of the Unconscious"

Apr 20 M

Aristotle:
Politics I

Calvin:
Institutes

Austen:
Emma, to end

Woolf:
Mrs. Dalloway

Apr 23 Th

Aristotle:
Politics III

Montaigne:
Essays Friendship, Cannibals, Experience

Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations One.i–ix, x (intro), xi (intro and conclusion)

Woolf:
A Room of One's Own

Apr 27 M

Intramural Seminar:

Apr 30 Th

Euripides:
Medea

Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus

Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations Two.i, iii–v; Three.i

Flannery O'Connor:
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
"Everything that Rises Must Converge"
"Revelation"

 May 4 M

Aristotle:
Physics II.1,3,7; III

Shakespeare:
Henry IV Pt. 1

The Federalist 1, 2, 6, 9–12, 14–17, 23, 37–8

Sartre:
The Nausea

 May 7 Th

Aristotle:
Physics IV

Shakespeare:
As You Like It

The Federalist 39, 47–51, 57–63, 68–70, 76, 78, 84–86; Declaration, Constitution

Heidegger:
The Question Concerning Technology

 May 11 M

Aristotle:
Metaphysics I, IV.1–2

Shakespeare:
Hamlet

Alexis de Tocqueville:
Democracy in America Intro, 2, 4–6, 12–15

Baldwin:
The Fire Next Time

 May 14 Th

Aristotle: Metaphysics VI.1, IX.6–8, XII.6–10

Shakespeare:
King Lear

Alexis de Tocqueville:
Democracy in America 16–17, 26–34, 56–57

Stevens:
The Emperor of Ice Cream (poems)

 May 18 M

Plato:
Phaedrus 227–257

Shakespeare:
Anthony and Cleopatra

William Blake:
Songs of Innocence and Experience

Plato:
Phaedrus 227–257

 May 21 Th

Plato:
Phaedrus 257–end

Shakespeare:
The Tempest

William Blake:
Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Plato:
Phaedrus 257–end