Academic Program

Annapolis Undergraduate Reading List 2009-2010
Fall Semester

* see appendix

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Aug. 27 Homer:
Iliad
I-VI		 Bible
Genesis
1-11		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote
Part I		 Tolstoi
War and Peace
Aug. 31 Homer:
Iliad,
VII-XII		 Bible
Genesis
12-25		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoi
War and Peace
Sept. 3 Homer:
Iliad,
XIII-XVIII		 Bible
Genesis
26-50		 Descartes:
Meditations
Letter of Dedication,
Preface, I-III		 Hegel: Logic,
(Part One of the Encyclopedia),
sections 79-89
Sept. 7 Homer:
Iliad
XIX-XXIV		 Bible
Exodus;
Numbers, 20		 Descartes:
Meditations
IV-VI		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,Introduction,
sections 73-89
Sept. 10 Homer:
Odyssey,
I-VIII		 Bible
Leviticus
11, 18-20;
Deuteronomy		 Pascal:
Pensées
(selections)*		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Sense Certainty,
Perception, sections
90-116
Sept. 14 Homer:
Odyssey,
IX-XVI		 Bible
Judges 19-21;
I Samuel 8-31;
II Samuel;
I Kings 1-4		 Pascal:
Pensées
(selections)*		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
178-196;
Lordship and Bondage
Sept. 17 Homer:
Odyssey
XVII-XXIV		 Bible
Psalms
(selections)*		 Milton:
Paradise Lost,
I-III		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Stoicism and Skepticism (197-206)
Sept. 21 Plato:
Meno		 Bible
Amos; Jonah;
Isaiah 40-55		 Milton:
Paradise Lost,
Books IV; V;
VI Argument only;
VII Argument,
1-39; VIII		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Unhappy Consciousness
(207-230)
Sept. 24 Aeschylus
Agamemnon		 Bible
Job		 Milton:
Paradise Lost
IX-X
XI to 428
XII 446
to end		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Conscience and
The Beautiful Soul
sections 632-658
Sept. 28 Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers;
Eumenides		 Lucretius:
De Rerum Natura
I-III		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Letter of Dedication,
Author's Preface,
Chapters 1-11		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, The Beautiful
Soul and Forgiveness
(659-671);
Absolute Knowing,
sections 806-808
Oct. 1 Plato:
Gorgias
447A-481B		 Lucretius:
De Rerum Natura
IV-VI		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 12-18		 Marx:
Communist Manifesto; The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, (Prometheus edition, pages 69-114) Chapters "Estranged Labor," "Antithesis of Capital and Labor," "Private Property and Labor," and "Private Property and Communism"
Oct. 5 Plato
Gorgias
481B-527E		 Virgil:
Aeneid
I-IV		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 19-21,
24-25, 27, 28 (only
the very last
paragraph), 29		 Marx:
Capital
(selections)*
Oct. 8 Plutarch:
Lives
Lycurgus;
Solon		 Virgil:
Aeneid
V-VIII		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 30-31,
32 (first four
paragraphs), 38
(paragraphs 3-6, 17-24, according to the
Hackett numbering),39, 43, 46-47; A Review and Conclusion (last paragraph)		 Marx:
Capital
(selections)*
Oct. 12 Herodotus:
History
I; II, 50-53
112-120; III,
37, 38, 66-87		 Virgil:
Aeneid,
IX-XII		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political
Treatise,
Preface and Chapters I-VI		 Marx:
The German Ideology
all of Part One (International Publishers pp. 35-95); "Theses on Feuerbach" (pp. 121-123),
"Letter to George Weydemeyer" (photocopy)
Oct. 15 Herodotus:
History
V, 76-78, 91-93, 105;
VI, 48
56-72, 94-120; VII
(entire)		 Plutarch:
Lives, Caesar; Cato the Younger		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political
Treatise,Chapters
VII, XII-XVII
(stopping right after
reference to Tacitus
on page 217 of
Dover, or page 194
of Hackett, or sentence number 17.3.13 in Yaffe);
XIX-XX		 Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling
Through Problema I
Oct. 19 Herodotus:
History
VIII; IX		 Tacitus:
Annals
I-II		 Leibniz:
Discourse on
Metaphysics		 Kierkegaard
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapters I-III
(including Appendix)
Oct. 22 Plato:
Republic
I-II 367E		 Tacitus:
Annals
III-VI		 Leibniz:
Philosophical
Essays*
(selections)*		 Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapter IV-end (Moral)
Oct. 26 Plato:
Republic
II 367E-
IV 427C		 Epictetus: Discourses and Handbook
(selections)*		 Leibniz:
Principles of
Nature and
Grace; Monadology;
Philosophical
Essays (selections)* 		Melville: Benito Cereno
Oct. 29 Plato:
Republic
IV 427D-VI 502C		 Bible
Matthew		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 2 Plato:
Republic
VI 502D-VII		 Bible
Luke		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 5 Plato:
Republic
VIII-IX		 Bible
Acts		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 9 Plato:
Republic X		 Bible
Gospel of John; First Letter of John		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 12 Aristophanes:
Clouds		 Bible
I Corinthians		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 16 Plato:
Apology and
Crito		 Bible
Romans		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 19 Plato:
Phaedo
57A-84B		 Plotinus
(selections)*		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 23 Plato:
Phaedo
84B-118B		 Augustine
Confessions
I-V		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
THANKSGIVING
Nov. 30 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
I; II, 1-46		 Augustine
Confessions
VI-IX		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 3 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
II, 47-end; III; IV,1-41		 Augustine
Confessions
X-XI		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 7 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
IV, 42-end; V; VI,
1-32		 Anselm:
Proslogium		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 10 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
VI, 33-end; VII		 Christian Creeds;*
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae

Prima Pars
(First Part),
Questions 1,2		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 14 Plato:
Symposium
beginning-198A		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
Prima Pars
First Part,
Question 3,
Articles 1-4;
Question 4;
Question 6, Articles 1-2;
Question 7, Articles 1-2;
Question 8, Article 1;
Question 9, Article 1;
Question 11,
Articles 3-4		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 18
Thursday		 Plato:
Symposium
198-end		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
Prima Pars
First Part, Question 12,
Articles 1,4,7,11-13
Question 13, Articles 1-5, 11-12;		 Preceptorial Preceptorial

END OF FIRST SEMESTER, 2009-2010

2010 Spring Semester Reading List

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Jan. 11 Plato:
Parmenides
beginning-148D, 166C 		Dante:
Divine Comedy,Inferno I-XVII 		George Eliot: Middlemarch Essay Writing Period
Jan. 14 Plato:
Theaetetus
beginning-186		 Dante:
Divine Comedy,
Inferno
 XVIII-XXXIV		 George Eliot:
Middlemarch		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 18 Plato:
Theaetetus
187-end		 Dante:
Divine Comedy,
Purgatorio
 I-XVIII		 Hume: Treatise of
Human Nature
 (selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 21 Plato:
Sophist
beginning-242B		 Dante:
Divine Comedy,
Purgatorio
 XIX-XXXIII		 Hume: Treatise of
Human Nature
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 25 Plato:
Sophist
242C to end		 Dante:
Divine Comedy,
Paradiso
 I-XVII		 Hume: Treatise of
Human Nature
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 28 Aristotle:
Nicomachean
Ethics
 (selections)*		 Dante:
Divine Comedy,
Paradiso
 XVIII-XXXIII		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Feb. 1 Aristotle:
Nicomachean
Ethics
 III (1109b27-1119b19)
IV 2-3 (1122a19-
1125a35)
V 1-7 (1129a1-
1135a14)		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, Question 90; Qu. 91, Articles 1-5; Qu. 93, Arts. 1-3, 5, 6; Qu. 94; Qu. 95, Arts. 1, 2; Qu. 96, Arts. 2-6; Qu. 97, Arts. 1-3		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Feb. 4 Aristotle:
Nicomachean
Ethics
 VI, VII		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae,
 First Part of the Second
Part, Qu. 100, Arts. 1-3,
9, 10, 12; Questions 106,
108, 109		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Feb. 8 Aristotle:
Nicomachean
Ethics
VIII, IX (1155a1-1172a15)		 Christian Creeds
(available in Bookstore)
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae,
 Second Part of the
Second Part, Questions 1,
2, 4		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:  Use and Disadvantage of History for Life
Feb. 11 Aristotle:
Nicomachean
Ethics
 X (1172a16-1181b24)		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Prologue; Knight's Tale		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:  Beyond
Good and Evil, Preface, Books 1, 2, 3
Feb. 15 Aristotle: Politics
I 1-7 (1252a1-1255b40),
12-13 (1259a37-1260b25)
III 1-11 (1274b30-1282b13)		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales;
Miller’s Prologue and
Tale; Reeve’s Prologue
and Tale		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:  Beyond
Good and Evil, Books 4, 5, 6

Feb. 18 Aristotle: Politics
III 12-18 (1282b14-1288b6)
IV 1-12 (1288b10-1297a13)
VII 1-4 (1323a14-1326b26),
7 (1327b18-1328a21),		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Nun's Priest's Tale and
Epilogue; Wife of Bath's
Prologue and Tale		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:  Beyond Good and Evil,  Books 7, 8, 9;
Aftersong
Feb. 22 Sophocles:
Oedipus Tyrannus		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Clerk’s Prologue and
Tale; Franklin’s Prologue
and Tale		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Wagner:
Tristan and Isolde
Feb. 25 Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus		 Shakespeare:
As You Like It		 Kant: Critique of
Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Conrad:
Heart of Darkness
Mar. 1 Sophocles:
Antigone		 Montaigne: Essays
(selections)*		 Locke: Second Treatise
of Government
 Chapters I-IX		 William James: Psychology, A Briefer Course (selections)*
Mar. 4 Plato:
Timaeus
Beginning-57		 Montaigne: Essays
(selections)*		 Locke: Second Treatise
of Government
 Chapters X-XIX		 William James: Psychology, A Briefer Course (selections)*
SPRING VACATION
Mar. 22 Aristotle: Physics
I (A) 1 (184a10-184b16),
7-9 (189b30-192b7)
II (B) (192b8-200b11)		 Machiavelli:
The Prince		 Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice		 Dostoevski:  TheBrothers Karamazov
Mar. 25 Aristotle: Physics
III (G) 1-3 (200b12-
202b19)
IV  (D)10-14 (217b30-
224a16)		 Machiavelli:
Discourses on Livy
 (selections)*		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the
Origins of Inequality,
 Part I, Letter, Prefaces,
(including the question
that precedes Part I, as
well as the author's
notes)		 Dostoevski:  TheBrothers Karamazov
Mar. 29 Aristotle: Physics
III (G) 4-6 (202b30-
207a32)
IV (D) 1-2 (208a28-
210a13)
4-5 (210b33-213a12)
8 (214b12-216b21)		 Shakespeare:
Richard II		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the
Origins of Inequality,
Part II		 The Federalist, 78,  81 (1st 9 paragraphs); Supreme Court Opinions (selections)*; Constitution, Articles III and VI
Apr. 1 Aristotle: Physics
VIII (q) 1 (250b11-
252b6)
4-7 (254b7-261b26)
9-10 (265a13-267b26)		 Shakespeare:
Henry IV, Part I		 Rousseau:
The Social Contract
 I, Chapters 1-3, 5-9;
II, Chapter1-7, 11;
III, Chapters 1-5, 9,
11-12, 14-18;
IV, Chapters 7-8		 Tocqueville: Democracy in America (selections)*
Apr. 5 Sophocles:
Philoctetes		 Shakespeare:
Othello		 Molière:
The Misanthrope		 Tocqueville: Democracy in America (selections)*
Apr. 8 Aristotle: Metaphysics
I (A) 1-7 (980a21-
988b22)
II (a) (993a30-
995a20)		 Shakespeare:
Hamlet		 Mozart: Don Giovanni Dred Scott Decision (available in Bookstore);
Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*

Apr. 12 Aristotle: Metaphysics
IV (G) 1-4 (1003a21-
1009a5)
VII (Ζ) 1-3 (1028a10-
1029b12),
17 (1041a6-b33)		 Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
 Book I, Chapters 1-6		 Kant: Foundation of
Metaphysics of Morals;
Section I (omit Kant’s
Preface), II (through the
3rd formulation, i.e. up
to end of marginal 430 –
which is middle of page
98 in Harper, or bottom
of page 37 in Hackett)		 Lincoln:  selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*
Apr. 15 Aristotle: Metaphysics
IX (Θ) 6 (1048a25-b36),
8 (1049b4-1051a3)
XII (Λ) 1 (1069a18-b7),
6-10 (1071b3-
1076a4)		 Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
Book III, Chapter 19,
Chapter 20, sections 1-
11, Chapter 21		 Kant:
Foundations of
Metaphysics of Morals;
 remainder of
Section II, III		 Booker T. Washington: (photocopy of speeches in Bookstore); W. E. B.  DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk (selections)*
Apr. 19 Euripides:
Hippolytus		 J. S. Bach:
St. Matthew Passion		 Swift: Gulliver’s
Travels
“Advertisement”;
“Letter from Gulliver”;
“Publisher to Reader”; I,
II		 Faulkner:  Go Down Moses
“The Old People” “The Bear,” I-III
Apr. 22 Euripides:
The Bacchae		 Bacon: Novum
Organum, Book I,
Preface and Aphorisms
1-92 (LLA Edition,
pp. 31-91; Open Court
Edition, pp. 37-103;
Cambridge Edition
pp. 27-77)		 Swift: Gulliver’s
Travels
 III, IV		 Faulkner:  Go Down
Moses
“The Bear,” IV-V
“Delta Autumn”
Apr. 26 Aristotle:
Poetics		 Bacon: Novum
Organum, Book I,
Aphorisms 93-130; Book
II, Aphorisms
1-20 (LLA Edition
pp. 91-162; Open Court
Edition, pp. 104-180;
Cambridge Edition
pp. 77-135)		 Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations
(selections)*		 Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (selections)*
Apr. 29 Aristophanes:
The Frogs		 Descartes:
Discourse on Method
I-IV		 Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations
(selections)*		 Freud: The
Interpretation of Dreams(selections)*
“Psychoanalysis”
(photocopy of article in Bookstore)
May 3 Aristotle:
On the Soul
 I, 1; II, 1-7, 11-12		 Descartes:
Discourse on Method
 V-VI		 Declaration of
Independence, Articles
of Confederation, and
Madison, Hamilton, Jay:
The Federalist
 (selections)*		 Wittgenstein:
Philosophical Investigations,
Preface and
sections 1-134
May 6 Aristotle:
On the Soul
 III, 1-13		 Shakespeare:
Macbeth		 U. S. Constitution and
Madison, Hamilton,
Jay: The Federalist
(selections)*		 Heidegger: Introduction
to Metaphysics
(selections)*
May 10 Plato:
Phaedrus
beginning-257		 Shakespeare:
King Lear*		 Madison, Hamilton, Jay:
The Federalist
(selections)*		 Heidegger: Introduction
to Metaphysics
(selections)*
May 13 Plato:
Phaedrus
257-end		 Shakespeare:
The Tempest		 Mark Twain:
Huckleberry Finn		 Plato: Phaedrus

END OF SECOND SEMESTER, 2009-2010

* See appendix

APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE OF SEMINAR READINGS

FRESHMAN

January 28 - All Aristotle assignments are listed both by book and chapter divisions and by marginal numbers.  The marginal line numbers are the same in all editions when they are used.  The book
divisions are fairly standard, but some editions vary the chapters.  When in doubt, follow the
marginal line numbers, which should serve as a reliable guide.  For January 28 the assignment is Nicomachean Ethics I-II (1094a1-1109b26).

SOPHOMORE

The Psalms for the September 17 reading are: Psalms 1,8,14,19,22,23,42,46,51,90,121,122,126,130,131,137,139,148. (These numbers are as in the RSV and Jerusalem Bibles. Users of other editions should cross check numbering.)

The selections from Epictetus for October 26 are:
Discourses I 29;II 1,2,4,5,8,9,10,11,16,18,22,26;
III 5,12,13,15,18; IV 2, and Handbook 1-27.

The selections from Plotinus for November 19 are (in the The Essential Plotinus, O'Brien):
The Descent of the Soul: IV.8 (pp. 62-71), The Good and the One: VI.9 (pp. 73-89),
The Three Primal Hypostases: V.1 (pp. 91-105), Contemplation: III.8 (pp. 163-175).

The assignment for December 10 includes three Christian Creeds, the Apostolic, Nicene, and Athansian (available in the Bookstore) and the following selections from Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: Prologue; Prima Pars (First Part), Questions 1 and 2.

The assignments in Montaigne are as follows:

March 1
To the Reader; I, 31 (Of Cannibals); II, 11 (Of Cruelty); III, 2 (Of Repentance)

March 4
III, 13 (Of Experience)

The assignment for March 25 in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy is as follows:

Introductory Letter
Book I: Preface, 1-28, 58 to end
Book II: Preface, 1-5

May 10 - Shakespeare - Avoid newer editions that print two separate versions of King Lear.

JUNIOR

The selections from Pascal's Pensees (Penguin Edition) to be read for the seminars on September 10 and 14 are listed below. Please note that in the list of readings below, pensees from the non-classified papers have sometimes been added to chapters of the classified papers to which they seem to be clearly related.

September 10

Chapter II: 13, 21, 25, 30, 36, 44, 47, 413, 627, 628, 688, 697, 806, 978
Chapter III: 54-56, 58, 60, 65, 71, 72, 75
Chapter IV: 78, 79, 622, 641, 771
Chapter V: 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89-93, 95, 97, 98, 101-103, 577, 665, 711, 828
Chapter VI: 106-108, 111-116, 118
Chapter VII: 119, 121, 122, 124-128, 131, 398, 401, 410
Chapter VIII: 132-134, 136, 138, 139, 414
Chapter IX: 140, 143, 145, 407
Chapter X: 148, 152, 198-201

September 14

Chapter VI: 110
Chapter XI: 149
Chapter XII: 151, 157, 160-162, 165, 166, 418, 427, 428, 434, 442, 444
Chapter XIII: 170, 173-175, 182-185, 187, 188
Chapter XIV: 189, 190, 192, 446, 449
Chapter XV: 194, 511, 512
Chapter XV (bis): 416, 417, 431, 471
Chapter XVI: 205, 208, 210, 214-216, 219, 220
Chapter XVIII: 228, 232, 234, 239, 241, 242
Chapter XIX: 255, 265
Chapter XXIII: 298, 300, 301, 308, 309, 423, 424
Chapter XXIV: 332,335
Chapter XXVI: 351-354, 357, 358, 360, 364, 372, 373, 808, 821
Chapter XXVII: 378, 380, 381, 835, 846, 913 (Memorial)

The assignment for October 22 is as follows:

Leibniz, Philosophical Essays (R. Ariew and D. Garber)
Part I: No. 17, "New System of Nature" (pp. 138-145);
Nos. 20-21, "On the Ultimate Origination of Things," "On Nature Itself" (pp. 149-167).

The assignment for October 26 from Philosophical Essays is as follows: Part I: No. 7, "Primary Truths" (pp. 30-34); Part II E: No. 4, "Letter to Clarke: Third Paper" [through paragraph 8] (pp. 324-326). (Don't forget that the assignment includes also: Principles of Nature and Grace and Monadology.)

The reading assignments for Hume's Treatise of Human Nature are as follows:

January 18
Introduction; Book I, Part I; Part II, section 6; Part III, sections 1-8

January 21
Book I, Part III, section 14 and 15; Part IV, sections 2, 6-7; Appendix, pp. 633-636
(paragraphs 10-21) (old Oxford, also Prometheus) or pp. 398 bottom-401 (Oxford new ed.
of 2004) or 675 middle-678 middle (Penguin)

January 25 
Book II, Part 3, section iii, entire section (which occupies pp. 413-418 in old Oxford and Prometheus, pp.265-268 in Oxford new ed. of 2004); Book III, Part I; Part II, sections 1, 2, 5; Part III, sections 1, 3, 5, 6. 

The reading assignments for the seminars on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason are as follows:
A= First edition, 1781; B= Second edition, 1787

January 28
Preface and Introduction: Bvii-B30 (omitting the note on Bx1-Bxli) 

February 1
Transcendental Aesthetic: B33-B73 (=A19 sq.)

February 4
Introduction to Transcendental Logic 
I.  Logic in General: B74-B76 beginning (=A50-A52 beginning)
II. Transcendental Logic: B79-B82 beginning (=A55-A57)
Transcendental Analytic: B89-B91 (=A64-A66)
Analytic of Concepts:
Chapter I through Table of Categories
B91-B107 (=A66-A82 beginning)

Chapter II, Section 1
B116-B129 (=A84-A95 beginning)

February 8
Transcendental Deduction in B (complete): B130-169

February 11
Analytic of Principles:  Introduction, Chapter I (Schematism) & Chapter II, Sections 1, 2 & 3: B169-B202 (=A130-A162)

February 15
Analogies of Experience:  First Analogy and Second Analogy: B218-B244 beginning (=A176-A199 beginning)
Refutation of Idealism: B274-B279 beginning
Footnote from Second Preface: Bxxxix-Bxli

February 18
Ground of the Distinction…: B294-B306 (=A235-248) 
Phenomena and  Noumena: A248 end-A253)
Transcendental Dialectic:  Introduction and Book I:  B349-B396 (=A293-A338)

February 22
Transcendental Dialectic: 
Book II, Chapter II
Section 1: B432-B438 (=A406-A411)
Section 2
First, Second, Third Antinomies: B454-B481 (=A426-A453) and Statement of Fourth Antinomy
Section  3: B490-B504   beginning (=A462-A476 beginning)

February 25
Transcendental Dialectic:
Book II, Chapter II
Sections 7 & 8: B525-B543 (=A497-A515)
Section 9 
Solution of Third Antinomy: B560-B586 (=A532-A558)

The reading assignments for the seminars on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations are as follows (page numbers are from the Liberty Press edition):

April 26 
ook I, Chapters I-X with following omissions:

Chapter V - omit paragraph 20 to end (omit pp. 55-64):  Stop just before the paragraph beginning "Though at distant ..."

Chapter X, part I - omit paragraph 27 to end of Part I (pp. 125-135):  Stop just before the paragraph beginning "That the chance ..."

Chapter X, Part II - omit paragraph 33-59 (pp. 146-157):  Stop just before the paragraph beginning "Secondly ..." and start with paragraph beginning "I shall conclude ..."

April 29 
Book II, Chapter I (pp. 279-285)
Book II, Chapter III - omit paragraph 33 to end (pp. 344-349): Stop just before paragraph beginning "The annual produce of the land and the labor of England...” 
Book III, Chapter I (pp. 376-380)
Book III, Chapter IV - omit paragraphs 19-end (pp. 422-427): Stop just before
paragraph beginning "This order, however, being contrary to the natural...”
Book IV, Chapter II - read only paragraphs 1-15 (pp. 452-459): Stop just before paragraph beginning “Merchants and manufacturers are the people...”
Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, paragraphs 1-11 (pp. 488-495):  Stop just before paragraph beginning “It is in consequence of these maxims...”
Book IV, Chapter IX – read only paragraphs 48-52 (pp. 686-688):  Start with paragraph beginning “The greatest...” and continue to the end of the chapter
Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Art. 2, paragraph 46-end of Article 2 (pp. 780-788):  Start with paragraph beginning “Were there no publick institutions for education...”

The reading assignments in The Federalist and founding documents are as follows:

May 3
Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation
The Federalist, 1, 2, 6, 9-11, 12 (first three paragraphs)

May 6
The Constitution of the United States
The Federalist,15-17, 23, 31, 37-39

May 10
The Federalist, 47-51, 57, 62-63, 68, 69, 76, 78

SENIOR

The reading in Marx's Capital for the seminars on October 5 and 8 are as follows (the Bookstore carries the International Publishers and Vintage editions):

October 5
2-page photocopy from Contributions to the Critique of Political Economy Capital, Vol. I, Author's Preface to 1st and Postface to 2nd German ed.

Capital, Vol. I., Author's Preface to 1st and Postface to 2nd German ed. (International Publishers: 18-29; Vintage: 89-103)

Part I
Chapter I, Chapter II, 1st 4 paragraphs
Chapter III, Section 2a (International Publishers: 43-90 (top) & 106-115; Vintage: 125-180 (mid) & 198-209

October 8

Capital, Vol. I

Part II
Chapter IV,V,VI (International Publishers: 145-172; Vintage: 247-280)

Part III
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII, 1st 8 paragraphs
Chapter IX, Section 1 (International Publishers: 173-192; 193-195 (bot) & 204-209 (mid) (omit 210-212); Vintage: 283-306; 307-310 (top) & 320-325 (omit 326-329))

Chapter X, Section 1 (International Publishers: 222-225; Vintage: 340-344 (mid))

Capital, Vol. III (photocopy in Bookstore) (International Publishers: 247-249; 283 & 292-301)

The assignment from James's Psychology:  A Briefer Course (i.e. not the two volume Psychology) is:

March 1
Chapters I (Introduction), X (Habit), XI (The Stream of Consciousness, XII (The Self) (omitting pp. 205-216)
Notre Dame edition:  Introductory, Chapter 1 (Habit), Chapter 2 (The Stream of Consciousness), Chapter 3 (The Self) (omitting pp. 72-83).

March 4 
Chapters XXIV (Emotion), XXVI (Will), Epilogue
Notre Dame edition:  Chapter 15 (Emotion), 17 (Will), Epilogue

The reading assignment for March 29 is:

The Federalist 78, first nine paragraphs of 81; and Supreme Court Opinion:  Marbury v. Madison, 1803 and “Note for Non Lawyers” in Senior Seminar Readings (Bookstore – photocopy, pp.1-12)
State Court Opinion:  Eakin v. Raub, 1825 (photocopy, pp. 13-15)
U.S. Constitution, Articles III and VI
The reading assignments in Tocqueville are as follows in the 2-volume Vintage paperback (Bradley), Harper Perennial (George Lawrence) and University of Chicago Press (Mansfield):

April 1

(Vintage) Volume I:  Author's Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 68 bottom-85 bottom third), chapter 6 (to 103 middle), chapters 15-16, chapter 17 (beginning at 326 top), chapter 18 (from 421 bottom-429 top third; and 434, final 2 paragraphs)

(Harper Perennial) Volume I:  Author's Introduction; Pt. I, chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 70 bottom-86), chapter 6 (to 104 top); Pt. II, chapter 7-8, chapter 9 (beginning at 311 bottom), chapter 10 (400-407 and 412 middle-413)

(University of Chicago Press)  Part I:  Author’s Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting page 65 bottom-82 top), chapter 6 (to page 98 top); Part II, chapters 7-8, chapter 9 (beginning at page 298 bottom), chapter 10 (pages 384-390; and 395 [beginning “There are two great peoples”]-396)

April 5

(Vintage) Volume II: Book I, chapters 1-3, 5, Book II, chapters 1-15, Book IV, chapters 6-8

(Harper Perennial)  Volume II: Part I, chapters 1-3, 5; Part II, chapters 1-15, Part IV; chapters 6-8

(University of Chicago Press)  Volume II: Part I, chapters 1-3, 5; Part II, chapters 1-15; Part IV, chapters 6-8

The Lincoln assignments for April 8 and April 12 are taken from the Dover Thrift Edition and photocopies in Senior Seminar Readings (Bookstore).

April 8
Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy, pp. 17-21)
Lincoln:  The Constitution and The Union, 1860 (photocopy, p. 23)
Lincoln:  "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions":  Address Before Springfield Young Men's Lyceum, 1838
Lincoln:  “The Declaration of Independence Includes All Men”:  Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, 1857 (photocopy, pp. 24-28)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
1.  "Difference Between the White and Black Races," Charleston, September 18 (photocopy, p. 29)
2.  “Now, While I am Upon this Subject,” Alton, October 15 (photocopy, pp. 30-32)
3.  “I Have Intimated that I Thought,” Alton, October 15 (photocopy, pp. 33-34)
Lincoln:  Address at the Cooper Union, 1860
Lincoln:  Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, February 12, 1861
Frederick Douglass, "The Constitution of the United States:  Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?"  1860 (photocopy, pp. 37-43)

April 12 
Lincoln:  First Inaugural Address, 1861
Lincoln:  ‘My Paramount Object”:  Reply to Horace Greeley, 1862 (photocopy, p. 35)
Lincoln:  Second Annual Message to Congress, 1862
Lincoln:  Gettysburg Address, 1863
Lincoln:  Second Inaugural Address, 1865
Frederick Douglass, "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" 1876 (photocopy, pp. 45-50)

The readings for April 15 are:

Booker T. Washington (Bookstore – in Senior Seminar Reading)
“Atlanta Exposition Address,” 1901 (photocopy, pp. 51-52)
“Our New Citizen,” 1896 (photocopy, pp. 53-54)
“Democracy and Education,” 1890 (photocopy, pp. 54-59)

W.E.B.DuBois:   Souls of Black Folk
Chapter I ("Of Our Spiritual Strivings")
Chapter III ("Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others")
Chapter VI ("Of the Training of Black Men")

The assignments from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams are as follows:

April 26 
(Avon Edition) The epigraph on the title page, quoting Aeneid VII, 1. 312, can be translated, “If I cannot bend Heaven, I will move Hell.”  Read chapters II, III, IV in part (pp. 128-179) and chapter V in part (pp. 224-231, 274-300).
(Oxford Edition) pp. 78-114; 147-152; 185-204 (bottom of page)

April 29 
(Avon Edition) Chapter VI in part (pp. 312 bottom-318 bottom, 340-343, 374-379, 526-531; chapter VII in part (pp. 547-550, 571-592, 601-623 middle).
(Oxford Edition) pp. 212-217; 232-235 (bottom); 254-259 (top); 318-322; 330-332; 346-363; 366 (bottom)-382 (bottom)

The assignments from Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics are as follows (page numbers are from the Fried and Polt edition):

May 6
Chapter 1 (pp. 1-44); Chapter 3 (pp. 79-91)

May 10 
Chapter 4:  (pp. 98-113, 122-125, 130-155, 191-210)