Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
Philosophy and Theology Tutorial and Seminar Reading Lists - Fall

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY TUTORIAL READING LIST

Monday, Thursday 5:00 – 6:15 p.m.

The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.

First assignment:  Plato, Meno 70‑81 (Stephanus pages noted in margin).  Other daily assignments will be made by the tutor.

Week One - 2 meetings
Plato, Meno

Weeks Two through Four - 6 meetings
Aristotle,  Metaphysics I 1‑5 (980a22‑987a29),VI 1 (1025b3‑1026a32),VII 1‑3 (1028a10‑1029b13), IX 1‑3 and 5-8 (1045a25‑1047b2, 1047b32-1051a3), XII 6‑7, 8 (last paragraph only), and 9-10 (1071b3‑1073a14, 1074b1-1074b14, 1074b15-1076a7)

Weeks Five through Six (Monday) - 3 meetings
Aquinas, Summa Theologica Part I, questions 1-2, 13 

Weeks Six (Thursday) through Nine (Monday) - 6 meetings
Descartes, Meditations

Weeks Nine (Thursday) through Eleven (Monday) - 4 meetings
Hume,  Treatise of Human Nature, Introduction and Part I, sections I-VII; Part III, I-IX; Part III, sections X-XV; Part IV, sections VI-VII

Weeks Eleven (Thursday) through Fourteen - 6 meetings
(Week Thirteen: no Thursday class because of Thanksgiving)
Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Weeks Fifteen through Sixteen - 4 meetings total
Nietzsche,  Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, parts 1, 2, 4 (epigrams 150‑164 only), 5, 6

 

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY SEMINAR READING LIST

Monday, Thursday 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

The reading assignment for the first seminar should be completed before the first class meeting.

Week One
1. Genesis, chapters 1‑11
2. Genesis, chapters 12‑50

Week Two
3. Exodus
4. Job

Week Three
5. Plato, Symposium to 201c (Stephanus pages noted in margin)
6. Symposium 201c to end

Week Four
7. Plato, Phaedo to 89
8. Phaedo 89 to end

Week Five
9. Matthew
10. John

Week Six
11. Romans
12. Augustine, Confessions Books 1-5

Week Seven
13. Confessions Books 6‑9
14. Confessions Books 10‑11

Week Eight
15. Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments I through III 
16. Philosophical Fragments IV through V