Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Santa Fe
Philosophy and Theology Tutorial and Seminar Reading List - Summer

Philosophy and Theology Tutorial Reading List

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Friday 10:30 a.m. - Noon

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 (Monday, Tuesday) - 2 meetings
 Plato, Meno

Weeks One (Wednesday, Friday) through Two (Monday, Tuesday, Wed, Friday) - 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)

Week Three (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) - 3 meetings
 Aquinas, Summa Theologica Part I, questions 1*-2, 13
*Please read “Articles of Faith”. Copies are available in the bookstore.

Weeks Three (Friday) through Five (Monday) - 6 meetings
 Descartes, Meditations

Weeks Five (Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday) though Six (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 Six (Tues, Wed, Fri) through Seven (Mon, Tues, Wed) - 6 meetings
 Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Weeks Seven (Fri) though Eight (Mon, Tues, Wed) - 4 meetings total
 Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, parts 1, 2, 4 (epigrams 150‑164 only), 5, 6, 9

Philosophy and Theology Seminar Reading List

Monday and Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 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