First Semester

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior

(1) Aug 30 M

Homer:
Iliad I–V

Plutarch: Lives
Alexander, Caesar

Cervantes:
Don Quixote Prologue, I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace I–II

(2) Sep 2 T

Homer:
Iliad VI–XII

Plutarch: Lives
Antony

Cervantes:
Don Quixote I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace III–IV

(3) Sep 9 T

Homer:
Iliad XIII–XVIII

Bible:
Genesis

Cervantes:
Don Quixote I

Tolstoy:
War and Peace V–VI

(4) Sep 13 M

Homer:
Iliad XIX–XXIV

Bible:
Exodus

Cervantes:
Don Quixote II

Tolstoy:
War and Peace VII–IX

(5) Sep 16 T

Sappho:
Poems

Bible:
Samuel, Kings

Cervantes:
Don Quixote II

Tolstoy:
War and Peace X–XI

(6) Sep 20 M

Homer:
Odyssey I–VIII

Bible:
Psalms

John of the Cross:
Spiritual Canticle

Tolstoy:
War and Peace XII–XV

(7) Sep 23 T

Homer:
Odyssey IX–XVI

Bible:
Job

Montaigne:
Apology for Raimond Sebonde

Tolstoy:
War and Peace Epilogue

(8) Sept 27 M

Homer:
Odyssey XVII–XXIV

Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things I–III

Montaigne:
Apology for Raimond Sebonde

Goethe:
Faust pp. 64–209

(9) Sep 30 T

Aeschylus:
Agamemnon

Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things IV–VI

Calderon de la Barca:
Life is a Dream

Goethe:
Faust pp. 209–359

(10) Oct 4 M

Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers

Virgil:
Aeneid I–VI

Descartes:
Meditations Preface, Synopsis, 1–3

Goethe:
Faust pp. 359–end

(11) Oct 7 T

Aeschylus:
Eumenides

Virgil:
Aeneid VII–XII

Descartes:
Meditations 4–6

Hegel:
Philosophy of History Preface, Introduction

(12) Oct 11 M

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

Bible: 
Mark, Matthew

Hobbes:
Leviathan I.1–16

Hegel:
Philosophy of History, The Oriental World

(13) Oct 14 T

Herodotus:
Histories pp. 451–543

Bible: 
Luke, Acts of the Apostles

Hobbes:
Leviathan II.17–21, 24–30

Lao Tzu:
Tao Te Ching

(14) Oct 18 M

Plato:
Meno

Bible: 
John

Pascal:
Pensées pp. 33–87, 149–155

Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling - through ProblemaI

(15) Oct 21 T

Plato:
Symposium 172–198a

Bible: 
Romans

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

Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments Preface–Chapter III

(16) Oct 25 M

Plato:
Symposium 198a–end

Bible:
Hebrews

Milton:
Paradise Lost I–IV

Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments Chapter IV–V

(17) Oct 28 T

Aristophanes:
Clouds

Tacitus:
Annals I–III

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

Dickinson:
Selected Poetry (handout)

(18) Nov 1 M

Plato:
Apology, Crito

Tacitus:
Annals IV–VI, XI–XII

Spinoza:
Ethics I.i–xiii, II.i–xxxv

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov I–III

(19) Nov 4 T

Plato:
Phaedo 57a–84b

Apuleius:
The Golden Ass

Locke:
Second Treatise of Civil Government I–VIII

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov IV–V

(20) Nov 8 M

Plato:
Phaedo 84c–end

Apuleius:
The Golden Ass

Locke:
Second Treatise of Civil Government IX–XIX

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov VI–VII

(21) Nov 11 T

Intramural Seminar: Epic of Gilgamesh

(22) Nov 15 M

Plato:
Republic I

Plotinus: 
Enneads (selections, handout)

Racine:
Phedre

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov VIII–IX

(23) Nov 18 T

Plato:
Republic II–III

Augustine: 
Confessions I–V

Leibniz:
Vindication of God's Justice

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov X–XI

(24) Nov 22 M

Plato:
Republic IV–V

Augustine: 
Confessions VI–VIII

Leibniz:
Monadology

Dostoyevsky:
The Brothers Karamazov XII–Epilogue

(25) Nov 29 M

Plato:
Republic VI–VII

Augustine: 
Confessions IX–XI

Locke:
Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Nietzsche:
Genealogy of Morals Essays I–II

(26) Dec 2 T

Plato:
Republic VIII–IX

Augustine: 
Confessions XII–XIII

Locke:
Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Nietzsche:
Genealogy of Morals Essays III

(27)Dec 6 M

Plato:
Republic X

Anselm: Proslogium, Gaunilon, Fool, Reply

Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver's Travels I–II

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

(28) Dec 10 T

Aristophanes:
Birds

Hildegard of Bingen:
Scivias

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

Flaubert:
Madame Bovary finish

Second Semester

(29) Feb 7 M

Plato:
Theaetetus 142–178

Averroes (Ibn Rushd):
Selections

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 1–3

Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn 1–22

(30) Feb 10 T

Plato:
Theaetetus 178–end

Thomas Aquinas:
De Ente et Essentia

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 4–8

Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn 23–end

(31) Feb 14 M

Plato:
Gorgias 447a–481b

Thomas Aquinas:
De Ente et Essentia

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 9–13

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

(32) Feb 17 T

Plato:
Gorgias 481b–527e

Thomas Aquinas:
Compendium to Theology

Henry Fielding:
Tom Jones 14–18

Marx: 
Capital Chs. 4, 6–9 section 1, ch. 19 (pp. 247-257; 270-329; 675-682)

(33) Feb 21 M

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

Thomas Aquinas:
Compendium to Theology

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)

(34) Feb 24 T

Thucydides:
Peloponnesian Wars
pp 168-73, 194–245, 265–90, 400–8

Dante:
Inferno 1–17

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)

(35) Feb 28 M

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

Dante:
Inferno 18–34

George Berkeley:
Three Dialogues I

Marx: 
Capital Chs. 26, 31-33 (pp. 873-876; 914-940)

(36) Mar 3 T

Aristotle:
Ethics I–II

Dante:
Purgatorio 1–11

George Berkeley:
Three Dialogues II, III

Marx:
Wage Labor and Capital

(37) Mar 7 M

Aristotle:
Ethics III

Dante:
Purgatorio 12–22

Hume:
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Melville:
Billy Budd

(38) Mar 10 T

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

Dante:
Purgatorio 23–33

Hume:
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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

(39) Mar 14 M

Aristotle:
Ethics VIII–IX

Dante:
Paradiso 1–11

Rousseau:
Discourse on Inequality

James: 
Psychology Chs. 15 and 17

(40) Mar 17 T

Aristotle:
Ethics X

Dante:
Paradiso 12–22

Rousseau:
Discourse on Inequality

James: 
Psychology Epilogue

(41) Mar 21 M

Sophocles:
Oedipus the King

Dante:
Paradiso 23–33

Diderot:
Rameau's Nephew

Freud:
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis I–VI

(42) Mar 24 T

Sophocles:
Antigone

Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales Prologue, Prologue and Tale: Knight

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals I

Freud:
Lectures VII, XIII, XIV

(43) Mar 28 M

Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus

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

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals II

Freud:
Lectures XVII - XIX

(44) Mar 31 T

Aristotle:
Poetics

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

Kant:
Groundwork for Metaphysics of Morals III

Freud:
Lectures XX-XXIV

(45) Apr 4 M

Euripides:
Bacchae

Machiavelli: 
The Prince

Austen:
Emma, I, II.1–8

Jung:
Essay: "Psychology of the Unconscious"

(46) Apr 7 T

Aristotle:
Politics I

Rabelais: 
Gargantua I

Austen:
Emma, to end

Woolf:
Mrs. Dalloway

(47) Apr 11 M

Aristotle:
Politics III

Calvin: 
Institutes

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

Woolf:
A Room of One's Own

(48) Apr 14 T

Intramural Seminar: Aristophanes - Frogs

(49) Apr 28 T

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"

(50) May 2 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

(51) May 5 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

(52) May 9 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

(53) May 12 T

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)

(54) May 16 M

Plato:
Phaedrus 227–257

Shakespeare:
Anthony and Cleopatra

William Blake:
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Plato:
Phaedrus 227–257

(55) May 19 T

Plato:
Phaedrus 257–end

Shakespeare:
The Tempest

William Thoreau:
Walking

Plato:
Phaedrus 257–end