Academic Year 2016-2017

St John's College - Santa Fe, New Mexico
SEMINAR READING ASSIGNMENTS 2016-2017
Asterisks (*) indicate selections detailed in the supplement sheets.
Date
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Thursday
Aug 25
Homer, Iliad,
Books 1-6
Hebrew Bible
Genesis, 1-11
Cervantes, Don
Quixote, Volume
I
Tolstoy,
War and Peace
Monday
Aug 29
Iliad,
Books 7-12
Genesis, 12-23
Don Quixote,
Volume II
War and Peace
Hegel,
Phenomenology of
Spirit*
Thursday
Sep 1
Iliad,
Books 13-18
Genesis, 24-50
Descartes,
Meditations, To
the Reader,
Synopsis,
Meditations I-III
Monday
Sep 5
Iliad,
Books 19-24
Exodus
Meditations IVVI
Hegel,
Philosophy of
History*
Thursday
Sep 8
Homer, Odyssey,
Books 1-8
Deuteronomy
Pascal, Pensees,
selections*
Philosophy of
History*
Monday
Sep 12
Odyssey,
Books 9-16
Samuel; Kings;
Chronicles*
Pensees,
selections*
Philosophy of
History*
Thursday
Sep 15
Odyssey,
Books 17-24
Psalms*
Milton, Paradise
Lost, Books 1-3
Philosophy of
History*
Monday
Sep 19
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon
Jeremiah & Jonah*
Paradise Lost,
Books 4-5; 8-9
Thursday
Sep 22
Aeschylus,
Libation Bearers,
Eumenides
Job
Paradise Lost,
Books 10-12
Philosophy of
History*
Marx, Economic and
Philosophic
Manuscripts;*
Communist
Manifesto
Herodotus, Histories*
Livy,
The Early History of
Rome*
Hobbes,
Leviathan,
"Dedication,"
"Preface,"
Chapters 1-9
Marx, On the Jewish
Question, Part I; The
German Ideology,
Part I*
Histories*
Plutarch, Lives,
Cato the Younger
and Caesar
Leviathan,
Chapters 10-16
Kierkegaard, Fear
and Trembling*
Leviathan,
Chapters 1721,26, 31 [final
paragraph]
Kierkegaard,
The Sickness Unto
Death*
Monday
Sep 26
Thursday
Sep 29
Monday
Oct 3
Histories*
Plutarch,
Antony and Brutus
"Review &
Conclusion"
Thursday
Oct 6
Plato,
Gorgias, 447a-481b
Virgil,
Aeneid,
Books 1-4
Spinoza,
TheologicoPolitical Treatise*
Monday
Oct 10
Gorgias,
481b-527c
Aeneid,
Books 5-8
TheologicoPolitical Treatise*
Thursday
Oct 13
Plato,
Meno
Aeneid,
Books 9-12
Locke, Second
Treatise of
Government*
Monday
Oct 17
Sophocles,
Antigone
Tacitus,
Annals, I-II
Rousseau,
Discourse on the
Origin of
Inequality*
Kierkegaard,
The Sickness Unto
Death*
Stendhal,
The Red and the
Black, Part 1,
chapters 1-23
Stendhal,
The Red and the
Black, Part 1, chapter
24-Part 2, chapter 20
Stendhal,
The Red and the
Black, Part 2,
chapters 21-end
Thursday
Oct 20
Plato,
Republic, I
Annals, III-VI
Discourse on the
Origin of
Inequality*
Nietzsche,
On the Advantage and
Disadvantage of
History for Life
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Monday
Oct 24
Thursday
Oct 27
Republic, II-III
Republic, IV-V
Epictetus,
Discourses*
New Testament
Matthew
New Testament
John (Gospel),
I John (Epistle)
New Testament
Acts
Monday
Oct 31
Republic, VI-VII
Thursday
Nov 3
Republic, VIII-IX
Monday
Nov 7
Republic, X
Thursday
Nov 10
Aristophanes, Clouds
Monday
Nov 14
Plato,
Apology, Crito
Thursday
Nov 17
Plato,
Phaedo, 57a-89a
Monday
Nov 21
Phaedo, 89b-118a
Plotinus,
Enneads*
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Monday
Nov 28
Sophocles,
Oedipus Rex
Augustine,
Confessions, 1-6
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Thursday
Dec 1
Plato,
Theaetetus,
142a-187a
Confessions, 7-9
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
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New Testament
Romans
New Testament
I Corinthians
Aristotle,
On the Soul,
II, 1-7, 11-12
On the Soul,
III, 3-13; I, 4, 408b
18-30
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Monday
Dec 5
Theaetetus,
187a-210c
Confessions, 10-11
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Thursday
Dec 8
Plato,
Sophist,
216a-249d
Maimonides,
Guide of the
Perplexed*
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Monday
Dec 12
Sophist
249d-end
Guide of the
Perplexed*
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Thursday
Dec 15
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound
Guide of the
Perplexed*
Preceptorials
Preceptorials
Nietzsche,
Beyond Good and
Evil
Books I-II
WINTER VACATION
Monday
Jan 16
Thucydides,
Peloponnesian War,
I; II, 1-46
Anselm,
Proslogium;
Gaunilon's Reply
and Anselm's
Response
Swift,
Gulliver’s
Travels, 1-2
Thursday
Jan 19
Peloponnesian War,
II, 47-65;
III, 1-86; IV, 1-41
Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae*
Gulliver’s
Travels, 3-4
Nietzsche,
Beyond Good and
Evil
Book III; Book IX
Monday
Jan 23
Peloponnesian War,
IV, 42-135; V, 1-26,
84-116; VI, 1-32
Summa Theologiae*
Leibniz,
selections*
Nietzsche,
Gay Science
Book V
Thursday
Jan 26
Peloponnesian War,
VI, 32-105; VII; VIII,
1-18
Summa Theologiae*
Leibniz,
selections*
[Essay Preparation]
Monday
Jan 30
Plato,
Phaedrus, 227a-257c
Dante,
Divine Comedy,
Inferno, Cantos 1-17
Hume,
Treatise of
Human Nature*
[Essay Preparation]
Thursday
Feb 2
Plato,
Phaedrus, 257c-end
Divine Comedy,
Inferno,
Cantos 18-End
Treatise of
Human Nature*
[Essay Preparation]
Monday
Feb 6
Plato,
Symposium,
172a-201c
Divine Comedy,
Purgatorio,
Cantos 1-18
Treatise of
Human Nature*
[Essay Preparation]
Symposium,
201d-223d
Divine Comedy,
Purgatorio,
Cantos 19-End
Hume, Enquiry
Concerning
Principles of
Morals*
Thursday
Feb 9
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[Essay Preparation]
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Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics;
I
Divine Comedy,
Paradiso,
Cantos 1-17
Thursday
Feb 16
Nicomachean Ethics;
II, III
Divine Comedy,
Paradiso,
Cantos 18-End
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Monday
Feb 20
Nicomachean Ethics;
IV, V
Thomas Aquinas,
Summa Theologiae*
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Thursday
Feb 23
Nicomachean Ethics;
VI, VII
Summa Theologiae*
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway
Monday
Feb 27
Nicomachean Ethics;
VIII, IX
Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales*
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Woolf,
Mrs. Dalloway
Thursday
Mar 2
Nicomachean Ethics;
X
Canterbury Tales*
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Joyce, “The Dead”
Monday
Mar 6
Aristotle,
Politics*
Canterbury
Tales*
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
Thursday
Mar 9
Politics*
Shakespeare,
As You Like It
Wordsworth,
Two Part Prelude
Heidegger, “What is
Metaphysics?”*
Monday
Feb 13
Kant,
Critique of Pure
Reason*
Mann, Death in
Venice
Jung, The 1912 New
York Lectures (“Jung
Contra Freud”),
chapters 1-5
Jung, The 1912 New
York Lectures (“Jung
Contra Freud”),
chapters 6-11
SPRING VACATION
Monday
Mar 27
Sophocles, Ajax
Machiavelli,
The Prince, I - XIV
Austen, Pride
and Prejudice
Vol. I-II
Thursday
Mar 30
Lucretius, On the
Nature of Things,
I-II
The Prince,
XV -XXVI
Pride and
Prejudice
Vol III
On the Nature of
Things, III-IV
Shakespeare,
Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Rousseau, Social
Contract, I, II,
IV-8 “Civil
Religion”
Monday
Apr 3
Montaigne, Essays:
Thursday
Apr 6
On the Nature of
Things, V-VI
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"Education of
Children," "Of
Cannibals"
Kant, Critique of
Pure Reason,
“Canon;”
Groundwork of
the Metaphysics
of Morals *
Dostoevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov,
Parts I-III
(Books I-IX)
Dostoevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov,
Part IV (Books X and
XI)
Dostoevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov,
Book XII and
"Epilogue"
Tocqueville,
Democracy in
America*
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Monday
Apr 10
Plato,
Timaeus, 17a-53e
Essays, “On
Experience”
Groundwork of
the Metaphysics
of Morals*
Thursday
Apr 13
Aristotle,
Physics*
Bacon,
New Organon*
Mozart,
Don Giovanni
Physics*
Bacon,
New Atlantis;
Great Instauration
Adam Smith,
Wealth of
Nations*
Monday
Apr 17
Tocqueville,
Democracy in
America*
Tocqueville,
Democracy in
America*
Lincoln,
Dred Scott, etc.*
Lincoln
Speeches;
Constitutional
Amendments*
Thursday
Apr 20
Physics*
Shakespeare,
Richard II
Wealth of
Nations*
Monday
Apr 24
Physics*
Shakespeare,
Henry IV, Part I
Wealth of
Nations*
Shakespeare,
Henry IV, Part II
Hawthorne,
Scarlet Letter:
Author’s preface;
“Custom House”;
Chapters 1-8
DuBois,
The Souls of Black
Folk, Chapter 8-14
Scarlet Letter
Chapters 9-end
Melville,
“Bartleby”
Thursday
Apr 27
Monday
May 1
Thursday
May 4
Physics*
Aristotle,
Metaphysics,
Book I (Α), Chapters1-2;
Book XII (Λ), Chapters
6-10
Euripides,
Bacchae
Shakespeare,
Macbeth
Descartes,
Discourse on
Method, I-III
Declaration of
Independence;
U.S. Constitution
Madison, Hamilton,
Jay,
DuBois,
The Souls of Black
Folk, Chapters 1-7
James, The
Europeans
The Federalist*
O’Connor,
“Good Country
People”
Heidegger,
“The Word of
Nietzsche, God is
Dead”*
Monday
May 8
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus
Discourse on
Method, IV-VI
The Federalist*
Thursday
May 11
Aristophanes,
Frogs
Shakespeare,
Othello
The Federalist*
Monday
May 15
Aristotle,
Poetics
Shakespeare,
King Lear
Twain,
Huckleberry Finn
Chapters 1-22
Jonas,
Essays*
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Shakespeare,
Tempest
Huckleberry Finn
Chapters 23-end
Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics,
Books VIII and IX
Thursday
May 18
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: FRESHMEN SUPPLEMENT
Monday
Sep 26
Histories: I; III, 37-38
Thursday
Sep 29
Histories: V, 62-78; VI, 94-140; VII, 1-60, 99-end
Monday
Oct 3
Histories: VIII, IX
Monday
Mar 6
Politics: I; II, 1260 b27-1264 b26, 1266 a30-1269 a25
Thursday
Mar 9
Politics: III; VII, 1323 a14-1326 b27
Thursday
Apr 13
Physics: I, 184 a9-184 b14 and 189 b30-192 b7; II, 192 b8-195 b30
Monday
Apr 17
Physics: II, 195b31-200 b11
Thursday
Apr 20
Physics: III, 200b12-202b29; IV, 217b29-224a16
Monday
Apr 24
Physics: III, 202b30-208a25;IV, 208a26-217b28
Thursday
Apr 27
Physics: VIII, 250 b11-260 a19 and 265 a13-267 b27
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: SOPHOMORE SUPPLEMENT
Monday
Sep 12
Hebrew Bible: I Samuel 8-31; II Samuel; I Kings, 1-2; II Chronicles, last chapter only
Thursday
Sep 15
Bible: Psalms 8, 14, 19, 22, 23, 38, 39, 46, 51, 90, 91, 107, 110, 130, 137, 139,
(as numbered in RSV/Jerusalem editions; other editions cross-check for correct selection)
Monday
Sep 19
Jeremiah 1, 26-45 & Jonah
Monday
Sep 26
The Early History of Rome (Penguin Classics); sections 1-2.33
Monday
Oct 24
Discourses: Book I, Chapters 1, 2, 11, 16, 17, 18, 24; Book II, Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6, 8
Monday
Nov 21
The Essential Plotinus (O’Brien), “Beauty” (I,6) pp. 33-43; “Three Primal Hypostases”
(V,1) pp. 90-104; “Contemplation” (III,8) pp. 162-175
Thursday
Dec 8
Guide, Part I., Epistle Dedicatory, Introduction,
(pp. 3-20 of the Pines translation, University of Chicago Press, Volume I - photocopy);
Part II, Chs. 13-19, 25
Monday
Dec 12
Thursday
Dec 15
Thursday
Jan 19
Monday
Jan 23
Thursday
Jan 26
Guide Part II., Chs. 32-40, 46-48, Volume II
Guide Part III., Chs. 17-23, Volume II
Summa Theologiae: (photocopy: "Articles of Faith" ); (photocopy: “Prologue”);
Part I: q.1; q.2; q.3, arts. 3-4, 7
ST: (photocopy, I: q.4: "Perfection of God"); q.12, arts. 12-13; q.13, arts. 1-5 and 11-12
ST: (photocopy: "On the End of Man")
Monday
Feb 20
ST: Part II, Section 1: q.90; q.91;
(photocopy, q.92: "Readings on Law: On the Effects of Law"); q.93, arts. 1-3
Thursday
Feb 23
ST : Part II, Section 1: q.94, q.95, arts. 1-2; (photocopy, q.96: "Readings on Law: On the
Power of Human Law"; q.97: “Readings on Law: On the Change in Laws”)
Monday
Feb 27
Thursday
Mar 2
Monday
Mar 6
Thursday
Apr 13
Canterbury Tales: General Prologue; "Knight's Tale"
Canterbury Tales: “Miller’s Tale”; “Reeve's Tale”
Canterbury Tales: “Wife of Bath's Tale”
New Organon: “Preface” I, 1-69, 129, 130; II, 1-25, 52.
NB: Aquinas selections are available in Introduction to St Thomas Aquinas (edited by Pegis), Modern
Library, supplemented by photocopies, as indicated.
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: JUNIOR SUPPLEMENT
Pensees: The "thoughts" are numbered differently in the three editions generally available, and
are correlated in the following lists.
Key: P - Penguin, D/ML - Dover/Dutton and Modern Library, and GB - Great Books Editions.
Seminar Dates: Thursday, September 8 and Monday, September 12
First Assignment
P
512
511
751
513
675
587
647
199
44
45
978
622
136
137
523
414
427
612
429
418
577
781
808
188
170
167
174
82
182
173
530
975
983
423
424
D/ML
1
2
3
4
29
34
35
72
82
83
100
131
139
142
145
171
194
219
229
233
234
242
245
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
GB
1
2
3
4
29
34
35
72
82
83
100
131
139
142
145
171
194
219
229
233
234
242
245
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
First Assignment
Second Assignment
continued
continued
P
588
377
155
110
D/ML
279
280
281
282
GB
279
280
281
282
Second Assignment
60
103
554
977
688
525
26
533
200
33
905
109
406
128
114
117
621
410
122
121
148
149
131
208
142
398
352
192
212
294
298
303
320
323
325
330
331
347
374
385
392
395
396
397
409
412
413
416
418
425
430
434
435
463
524
525
526
527
294
298
303
320
323
325
330
331
347
374
385
392
395
396
397
409
412
413
416
418
425
430
434
435
463
525
526
527
528
P
353
712
538
358
190
189
449
835
502
926
242
446
286
281
454
451
311
392
270
257
269
198
793
308
846
184
169
D/ML
528
529
530
537
542
546
555
563
570
581
584
585
608
612
618
619
639
643
669
683
691
692
736
792
807
810
811
GB
529
530
531
538
543
547
556
564
571
582
585
586
609
613
619
620
640
644
670
684
692
693
737
793
808
811
812
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: JUNIOR SUPPLEMENT
Thursday
Oct 6
Monday
Oct 10
Thursday
Oct 13
Monday
Oct 17
Thursday
Oct 20
Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface, Chs. I, II, IV, VI-VII
Theologico-Political Treatise, Chs. XI-XVI, XIX, XX
Second Treatise of Government, Numbered paragraphs 1-51, 86-100, 119-158, 199, 211-243
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Letter to the Republic of Geneva, Preface, Part I
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part II
Monday
Jan 23
Philosophical Essays (Hackett): pp. 138-145 (New System of Nature); pp. 171-178
(from correspondence with de Volder); pp. 155-167 (On Nature Itself)
Thursday
Jan 26
Philosophical Essays: pp. 206-213
(Principles of Nature and Grace); pp. 213-225 (Monadology)
Monday
Jan 30
Thursday
Feb 2
Monday
Feb 6
Thursday,
Feb 9
Treatise of Human Nature: "Introduction," Book I, Part I; Part II, section VI; Part III:
sections I-VI
Monday
Feb 13
Thursday
Feb 16
Monday
Feb 20
Thursday
Feb 23
Treatise of Human Nature: Book I, Part III: sections VII-VIII, X, XII, XIV and XV
Treatise of Human Nature: Book I, Part IV, sections I-II, VI-VII
Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals: I-VI; IX; Appendix 1. “Concerning Moral
Sentiment”; Appendix 2. “Of Self-Love”
Critique of Pure Reason: "Preface" to Second Edition; "Introduction," pp. 17-62.
Note: pagination is taken from the Norman Kemp Smith Translation. Pagination for the two
other main editions is available in the St. John’s College Bookstore.
"Transcendental Aesthetic," (pp. 65-91)
"Transcendental Logic," "Introduction;" "Transcendental Analytic," Book I, Chapter I (pp.92119), Book I, Chapter II, Section 1 (pp. 120-128)
"Transcendental Analytic," Book I Chapter II, Section 2 (second edition, pp.151-175)
Monday
Feb 27
"Transcendental Analytic," Book II, Chapter I (pp. 180-187); Chapter II, Analogies of
Experience (first paragraph only, pp. 208-209), Second Analogy (first four paragraphs only,
pp. 218-221); Chapter III (pp. 257-275, but omit all passages contained only in A - first
edition, at bottom of pages 260-261 and 263-271)
Thursday
Mar 2
"Transcendental Dialectic," "Introduction" (pp. 297-307); Book I (pp. 308-326); Book II, The
Dialectical Inferences of Pure Reason (pp. 327-328) and Chapter II, Introduction and Sections
1 and 2 (First and Third Antinomies only) (pp. 384-402, 409-415)
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: JUNIOR SUPPLEMENT
Monday
Mar 6
"Transcendental Dialectic," Book II, Chapter II, Sections 3-8 and Section 9 (parts I and III
only), pp. 422-458, 464-479, 483-484
Thursday
Apr 6
Critique of Pure Reason, “Canon” (pp. 629-653); Groundwork of the Metaphysics of
Morals: Preface and Section I
Monday
Apr 10
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: Second section-third section
Adam Smith Readings, The Wealth of Nations: The Modern Library edition does not contain any
paragraph numbers. For your reference, the following table correlates the readings in the
Liberty Fund edition with the Modern Library Edition.
Seminar
Date
Monday
April 17
Thursday
April 20
Monday
April 24
Liberty Fund Edition
Modern Library Edition
“Introduction & Plan of Work”
xxiii-xxvi
Book I, Chapters 1-4; Chapter 5,
(first ten paragraphs)
3-37
Book I, Chapters 6-7
53-72
Book I, Chapter 8,
(paragraphs 1-27, 35-45, last paragraph)
73-84 (to “In Great Britain…”),
89-95 (to “In Years of Plenty…”), and 99
Book I, Chapter 9, (First 4 paragraphs)
100-101 (to “By the 37th…”)
Book I, Chapter 10, Introduction, Part I,
(paragraphs 1-26)
114-124 (to “That the chance of gain…”)
Book I, Chapter 10, Part II,
(paragraphs 1-17, 41-end)
136-143 (to “The government of towns…”),
155-165
Book I, Chapter 11, Conclusion
284-288
Book II, Introduction
299-301
Book II, Chapter 1
302-309
Book II, Chapter 3
360-380
Book III, Chapter 1
407-412
Book III, Chapter 3
426-438
Book III, Chapter 4, (paragraphs 1-18)
439-448 (to “This order, however…”)
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Monday
April 24
Continued
Thursday
May 4
Monday
May 8
Thursday
May 11
Book IV, Introduction, Chapter 1,
(paragraphs 1-4, 34-end)
Book IV, Chapter 2, (paragraphs 1-15, 40end)
455-458 (to “In consequence of these…”),
478-480 (beginning with “ I thought it
necessary…”)
481-487 (to the bottom of the page),
498-502 (beginning with “The case in
which…”)
Book IV, Chapter 3, Part II
520-532
Book IV, Chapter 9, (last 3 paragraphs)
745-746
Book V, Chapter 1, Part III, article 2
(paragraphs 48-end
839-846 (beginning with “Ought the
public…”)
Book V, Chapter 1, Part III, article 3,
(paragraphs 1-25)
846-863 (to “In this situation…”)
The Federalist: 1,2,6,9 together with the Declaration of Independence
and the U.S. Constitution
The Federalist: 10, 15, 23, 39, 49, 50, 51
The Federalist: 57, 62, 63, 68, 69, 76, 78, 84
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Seminar Reading Assignments 2016 - 2017: SENIOR SUPPLEMENT
Thursday
Sep 1
Phenomenology of Spirit (Miller Translation Required): “Self Consciousness,” pp. 104 –
119, from paragraph 166 through paragraph 196
Monday
Sep 5
Philosophy of History (Sibree Translation Required): “Classification of Historic Data,”
pp. 103-110; “The Persian Empire and its Constituent Parts,” pp. 187-222
Thursday
Sep 8
Philosophy of History (Sibree Translation Required): “The Greek World,” pp. 223-277
Monday
Sep 12
Philosophy of History (Sibree Translation Required): “The Roman World,” pp. 278-340
Thursday
Sep 15
Philosophy of History (Sibree Translation Required): “The German World,” pp. 341-398
Monday
Sep 19
Philosophy of History (Sibree Translation Required): “The German World,” pp. 398-457
Thursday
Sep 22
Monday
Sep 26
Thursday
Sep 29
Monday
Oct 3
Thursday
Oct 6
(All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker)
Economic &Philosophic Manuscripts: Estranged Labor, Private Property and Communism,
The Meaning of Human Requirements, The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society, pp. 70105
(All Marx readings from The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker)
On the Jewish Question, Part 1, pp. 26-46; The German Ideology Part I “Feuerbach”, pp.
146-202
Fear and Trembling, from the Preface through the "First Problem” and the Epilogue.
The Sickness Unto Death: The beginning of the book through the section titled “Despair
Over the Earthly or Something Earthly,” pp. 1-60, Princeton edition, Hong translation, or pp.
33-91, Penguin Classics edition, Hannay translation
The Sickness Unto Death: The remainder of the book, skipping the sections beginning with
“Sin is Not a Negation but a Position” through “The Continuance of Sin,” pp. 60-96, 109131, Princeton Edition, or pp. 91-128, 142-165, Penguin Classics
Monday
March 9
“What is Metaphysics?”, from Heidegger, Basic Writings, Harper Collins, pp. 89-110
Thursday
Apr 6
Democracy in America
Vintage edition: I.intro. (pp.3-16); I.1-5 to p. 68 (pp.17-68); I.9-12 (pp. 173-198).
Chicago edition: I.i.intro. (pp. 3-15); I.i.1-5 to p. 65 (pp. 19-65); I.ii.1-4 (pp.165-186)
Monday
Apr 10
Democracy in America
Vintage edition: I.14-16 (pp. 237-287); II.i.1-2 (pp.3-12); II.i.5-8 (pp.20-34);
II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp.41-47, 62-63, 71-76, 85-88).
Chicago edition: I.ii.6-8 (pp. 220-264); II.i.1-2 (pp.403-410); II.i.5-8 (pp. 417-428);
II.i.10, 15, 17, 20 (pp. 433-439, 450-452, 458-463, 469-472)
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Thursday
Apr 13
Monday
Apr 17
Thursday
Apr 20
Democracy in America
Vintage edition: II.ii.1-4 (pp. 94-105); II.ii.8-13 (pp.121-139); II.iii.1 (pp.162-167);
II.iv (pp. 287-334)
Chicago edition: II.ii.1-4 (pp. 479-488); II.ii.8-13 (pp. 500-514); II.iii.1 (pp. 535-539);
II.iv (pp. 639-676)
Dred Scott Decision:
 Dred Scott v. Sandford (photocopy)
 Lincoln Speech on Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy)
 Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is it Pro-Slavery or AntiSlavery? (photocopy)
Lincoln’s Address at Cooper Union, 1860
(Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition)
Lincoln Speeches (all are in Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches, Dover Thrift Edition) and
Constitutional Amendments:
 “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions.” Address before Springfield Young
Men’s Lyceum, 1838
 “A House Divided.” Speech delivered at Springfield, Illionois at the close of the
Republican State Convention, 1858
 First Inaugural Address, 1861
 Final Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
 Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863
 Second Inaugural Address, 1865
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Thursday
May 11
“The Word of Nietzsche, God is Dead,” from Heidegger, The Question Concerning
Technology and Other Essays, Harper Torchbooks, pp. 53-112
Monday
May 15
“The Altered Nature of Human Action,” chapter 1 of The Imperative of Responsbility,
The University of Chicago Press, pp. 1-24;
“Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future,” chapter 4 of Mortality
and Morality, Northwestern University Press, pp. 99-112
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