Academic Program

Annapolis Undergraduate Reading List 2007-08

Seminar Reading List

First Semester Seminar Reading List
Updated 4/21/08

* see appendix

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Aug. 23 Homer:
Iliad
I-VI
Bible
Genesis
1-11
Cervantes:
Don Quixote
Part I
Tolstoi
War and Peace
Aug. 27 Homer:
Iliad,
VII-XII
Bible
Genesis
12-25
Cervantes:
Don Quixote
Tolstoi
War and Peace
Aug. 30 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. 3 Homer:
Iliad
XIX-XXIV
Bible
Exodus;
Numbers, 20
Descartes:
Mediations
IV-VI
Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Introduction,
sections 73-89
Sept. 6 Homer:
Odyssey,
I-VIII
Bible
Leviticus
11, 18-20;
Deuteronomy
Pascal:
Pensees
(selections)*
Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Sense Certainty,
Perception, sections
90-116
Sept. 10 Homer:
Odyssey,
IX-XVI
Bible
Judges 19-21;
I Samuel 8-31;
II Samuel;
I Kings 1-4
Pascal:
Pensees
(selections)*
Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit
,
178-196;
Lordship and Bondage
Sept. 13 Homer:
Odyssey
XVII-XXIV
Bible
Psalms
(selections)*
Milton:
Paradise Lost,
I-III
Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Stoicism and Skepticism (197-206)
Sept. 17 Plato:
Meno
Bible
II Chronicles
36; 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. 20 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. 24 Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers;
Eumenides
Plutarch:
Lives Caesar;
Cato the Younger
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
Sept. 27 Plato:
Gorgias
447A-481B
Virgil:
Aeneid
I-V
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. 1 Plato
Gorgias
481B-527E
Virgil:
Aeneid
VI-VIII
Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 19-21,
24-25, 27, 28 (only
the very last
paragraph), 29
Marx:
Capital
(selections)*
Oct. 5 Plutarch:
Lives
Lycurgus;
Solon
Virgil:
Aeneid
IX-XII
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. 8 Herodotus:
History
I; II, 50-53
112-120; III,
37, 38, 66-87
Tacitus:
Annals, I-II
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. 11 Herodotus:
History
V, 76-78, 91-93, 105;
VI, 48
56-72, 94-120; VII
(entire)
Tacitus:
Annals, III-VI
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. 15 Herodotus:
History
VIII; IX
Epictetus:
Discourses
and Handbook
(selections)*
Leibniz:
Discourse on
Metaphysics
Kierkegaard
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapters I-III
(including Appendix)
Oct. 18 Plato:
Republic
I-II 367E
Bible
Matthew
Leibniz:
Philosophical
Essays*

(selections)*
Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapter IV-end (Moral)
Oct. 22 Plato:
Republic
II 367E-
IV 427C
Bible
Luke
Leibniz:
Principles of
Nature and
Grace; Monadology;
Philosophical
Essays
Melville: Benito Cereno
Oct. 25 Plato:
Republic
IV 427D-VI 502C
Bible
Acts
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Oct. 29 Plato:
Republic
VI 502D-VII
Bible
Gospel of
John; First
Letter of John
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 1 Plato:
Republic
VIII-IX
Bible
I Corinthians
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 5 Plato:
Republic X
Bible
Romans
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 8 Aristophanes:
Clouds
Aristotle:
De Anima
II, 1-7, 11-12
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 12 Plato:
Apology and
Crito
Aristotle:
De Anima
III, 1-13; I, 4, 408b
18-30
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 15 Plato:
Phaedo
57A-84B
Plotinus
(selections)*
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 19 Plato:
Phaedo
84B-118B
Augustine
Confessions
I-V
Preceptorial Preceptorial
THANKSGIVING
Nov. 26 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
I; II, 1-46
Augustine
Confessions
VI-IX
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 29 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
II, 47-end; III; IV,1-41
Augustine
Confessions
X-XI
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 3 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
IV, 42-end; V; VI,
1-32
Anselm:
Proslogium
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 6 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
VI, 33-end; VII
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
(selections)*
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 10 Plato:
Symposium
beginning-198A
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
Prima Pars
First Part,
Questions 2,3,4
Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 13
Thursday
Plato:
Symposium
198-end
Thomas Acquinas:
Summa Theologiae
Prima Pars
First Part, Question 5,
articles 1-4;
Question 6;
Question 7, articles 1-2;
Question 8;
Question 9;
Question 11,
articles 3-4
Preceptorial Preceptorial

END OF FIRST SEMESTER, 2007-2008


APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE OF SEMINAR READINGS -
FIRST SEMESTER 2007-2008


SOPHOMORE

The Psalms for the September 13 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 15 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 15 are (in the The Essential Plotinus, O'Brien):
The Descent of the Soul (pp. 62-71), The Good and the One (pp. 73-89),
The Three Primal Hypostases (pp. 91-105). Contemplation (pp. 163-175).

The assignment for December 6 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), Question 1 [Nature of Theology]; Secunda-Secundae (Second Part of the Second Part), Question 1 [Object of Faith].

JUNIOR

The selections from Pascal's Pensees (Penguin Edition) to be read for the seminars on September 6 and 10 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 6

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 10

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 18 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 22 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.)

SENIOR

The reading in Marx's Capital for the seminars on October 1 and 4 are as follows (the Bookstore carries the International Publishers and Vintage editions):

October 1    
International Publishers   Vintage
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.
18-29   89-103
Part I
Chapter I, Chapter II, 1st 4 paragraphs
Chapter III, Section 2a

43-90 (top)
106-115  

125-180 (mid)
198-209
October 4    
Captial, Vol. I    
Part II
Chapter IV,V,VII

145-172 

247-280
Part III
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII, 1st 8 paragraphs
Chapter IX, Section 1

173-192
193-195 (bot)
204-209 (mid)
(omit 210-212)  

283-306
307-310 (top)
320-325
(omit 326-329)
Chapter X, Section 1 222-225  340-344 (mid)
Captial, Vol. III (photocopy in Bookstore) 247-249
283
292-301
 

UNDERGRADUATE SECOND SEMESTER READING LIST 2007-2008

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Jan. 7 Platos:
Parmenides
beginning-148D, 166C
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Inferno
I-XVII
George Eliot:
Middlemarch
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 10 Plato:
Theaetetus
beginning-186
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Inferno
XVIII-XXXIV
George Eliot:
Middlemarch
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 14 Plato:
Theaetetus,
187-end
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
I-XVIII
Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 17 Plato:
Sophist,
beginning-242B
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
XIX-XXXIII
Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 21 Plato:
Sophist,
242C-end
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Paradiso
I-XVII
Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 24 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics,
selections
Dante:
Divine Comedy, Paradiso
XVIII-XXXIII
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 28 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,
Questions 90-94
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Jan. 31 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics
VI,VII
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part,
Questions 95-97
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Essay Writing Period
Feb. 4 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics,
VIII, IX(1155al-1172a15)
Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part,
Questions 100, (arts. 1-3,9,10,12), Questions 106,108,109
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Nietzsche:
Use and Disadvantage of History for Life
Feb. 7 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics,
X (1172a16-1181b24)
Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Prologue (through Knight and Squire); Knight's Tale
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Preface, Books 1,2,3
Feb. 11 Aristotle:
Politics
I 1-7(1252a1-1255b40), 12-13 (1259a37-1260b25) III 1-9(1274b30-1281a10), 12-13 (1282b14-128b34)
Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Prologue (to end); Miller's Prologue and Tale; Reeve's Prologue and Tale
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*
Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Preface, Books 4,5,6
Feb. 14 Aristotle:
Politics
III 14-18(1284b34-1288b6) IV 1-13(1288b10-1297b34) VII 1-4 (1323a14-1326b26),7(1327b18-1328a21), 13 (1331b23-1332b10)
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. 18 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. 21 Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus
Shakespeare:
As You Like It
Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason (selections)*
Conrad:
Heart of Darkness
Feb. 25 Sophocles:
Antigone
Montaigne:
Essays (selections)*
Locke:
Second Treatise of Government
Chapters I-IX
William James:
Psychology, A Briefer Course (selections)*
Feb. 28 Aristophanes:
Birds
Montaigne:
Essays (selections)*
Locke:
Second Treatise of Government
Chapters X-XIX
William James:
Psychology, A Briefer Course (selections)*
SPRING VACATION
Mar. 17 Plato:
Timaeus
beginning-57
Shakespeare:
Richard II
Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice
Dostoevski
The Brothers Karamazov
Mar. 20 Aristotle:
Physics
I(A) 1(184a10-184b16), 7-9, (189b30-192b7) II(B) (192b8-200b11)
Shakespeare:
Henry IV, Part I
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
The Brothers Karamazov
Mar. 24 Aristotle:
Physics
III(Γ)1-3(200b12-202b19)IV(Δ)10-14(217b30-224a16)
Machiavelli:
The Prince
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
Mar. 27 Aristotle:
Physics
III(Γ) 4-6(202b30-207a32)IV(Δ)1-2(208a28-210a13)4-5(210b33-213a12) 8(214b12-216b21)
Machiavelli:
Discourse on Livy
(selections)*
Rousseau:
The Social Contract
I,Chapters 1-3,5-9; II,Chapters 1-7,11; III,Chapters 1-5,9,11-12,14-18; IV, Chapters 7-8
Tocqueville:Democracy in America
(selections)*
Mar. 31 Aristotle:
Physics
VIII (φ) 1 (250b11-252b6) 4-7 (2254b7-261b26) 9-10 (265a13-267b26)
Shakespeare:
Othello
Moliere:
The Misanthrope
Tocqueville:Democracy in America
(selections)*
Apr. 3 Aristotle:
Metaphysics
I(Α)1-7(980a21-988b22) II (α) (993a30-995a20)
Shakespeare:
Hamlet
Mozart:
Don Giovanni
(selections)*
Dred Scott Decision (available in Bookstore); Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*
Apr. 7 Aristotle:Metaphysics
IV(Γ)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 the end of marginal 430-which is the middle of page 98 in Harper, or bottom of page 37 in Hackett)

Letter (photocopy)"On a Supposed Right to Lie for Philanthropic Reasons"
Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*
Apr. 10 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:
Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals;
remainder Section II,III
Booker T. Washington: (photocopy of speeches in Bookstore); W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk (selections)*
Apr. 14 Sophocles:
Philoctetes
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. 17 Euripides:
Hippolytus
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. 21 Euripides:
The Bacchae
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. 24 Aristotle:
Poetics
Descartes:
Discourse on Method
I-IV
Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations
(selections)*
Freud:
The Interpretation of Dreams (selections)*
Freud:
"Psychoanalysis"
(photocopy of article in Bookstore)
Apr. 28 Aristotle:
On the SoulII, 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 1 Aristotle:
On the Soul
I,4 (408b17-30) III, 1-13
Shakespeare:
Macbeth
U.S. Constitution
and Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist
(selections)*
Heidegger:
Introduction to Metaphysics
(selections)*
May 5 Plato:
Phaedrus
beginning-257
Shakespeare:
King Lear*
Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist
(selections)*
Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics
(selections)*
May 8 Plato:
Phaedrus
257-end
Shakespeare:
The Tempest
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn Plato:
Phaedrus

END OF SECOND SEMESTER


APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE OF SEMINAR READINGS -
SECOND SEMESTER 2007-2008


FRESHMAN

January 24 - 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 24 the assignment is Nicomachean Ethics I-II (1094a1-1109b26).


SOPHOMORE

The assignments in Montaigne are as follows:

February 25: To the Reader; I, 31 (Of Cannibals); II, 11 (Of Cruelty); III, 2 (Of Repentance)

February 28: III, 13 (Of Experience)

The assignment for March 27 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 5: Shakespeare - Avoid newer editions that print two separate versions of King Lear.


JUNIOR

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

January 14 Introduction; Book I, Part I; Part II, section 6; Part III, sections 1-8
January 17 Book I, Part III, section 14 and 15; Part IV, sections 2, 6-7; Appendix, pp. 633-636 (paragraphs 10-21) (old Oxford edition, also Prometheus) or pp. 398 bottom-401 (Oxford new edition of 2004) or 675 middle-678 middle (Penguin)
January 21 Book II, Part 3, section iii, entire section, (which occupies pp. 413-418 in old Oxford, 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 Addition, 1781; B=Second edition, 1787

Date/Reading Assignment
January 24
Preface and Introduction
Bvii-B30
(omitting the note on Bx1-Bxli)
January 28
Transcendental Aesthetic
B33-B73(=A19 sq.)
January 31
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
I. Logic in General
B74-B76 beginning (=A50-A52 beginning)
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
II. Transcendental Logic
B79-B82 beginning (=A55-A57)
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
Transcendetal Analytic
B89-B91(=A64-A66)
Analytic of Concepts:
Chapter I through Table of Categories
B91-B107(=A66-A82 beginning)
Analytic of Concepts:
Chapter II, Section I
B116-B129(=A84-A95 beginning)
February 4
Transcendental Deduction in A (complete)
A95-A130
February 7
Analytic of Principles:
Introduction,
Chapter I (Schematism) & Chapter II,
Sections 1,2, & 3
B169-B202(=A130-A162)
February 11
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 14
Ground of the Distinction ... Phenomena and Noumena
B294-B306(=A235-248) (A248 end-A253)
Transcendental Dialectic:
Introduction and Book I
B349-B396(=A293-A338)
February 18
Transcendental Dialectic:
Book II, Chapter II, Section 1
B432-B438(=A405-A411)
Antithetic of Pure Reason B448-B453(=A420-A425)
Statements of the Four Antinomies B454(=A426)
B462(=A434)
B472(=A444)
B480(=A452)
Third Antinomy B472-B479(=A444-A451)
Antinomy of Pure Reason,
Section 3
B490-B504 beginning(=A462-A476 beginning)
Section 7 B530-B535(=A502-A507)
February 21
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of Totality In the Derivation of Cosmical Events from their Causes
B560-586 (=A532-558)
Canon of Pure Reason, Sections 1 & 2 B823-848 (=A795-819)

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 21 Book I, Chapters I-X with following omissions:
(a) Chapter V - omit paragraph 20 to end (omit pp. 55-64): Stop just before the paragraph beginning "Though at distant ..."
(b) Chapter X, part I - omit paragraph 27 to end of Part I (pp. 125-135): Stop just before the paragraph beginning "That the chance ..."
(c) 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 24 Book II, Chapter I (pp. 279-285)
Book II, Chapter III - omit paragraph 32 to end (pp. 343-349): Stop just before paragraph beginning "The annual produce ..."
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, howeer, 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 the 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, paragraphs 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 are as follows:

April 28 1, 2, 6, 9-11, 12 (first three paragraphs), together with the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation
May 1 15-17, 23, 31, 37-39, together with the Constitution of the United States
May 5 47-51, 57, 62-63, 68, 69, 76, 78

SENIOR

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

February 25 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).
February 28 Chapters XXIV (Emotion), Chapter XXVI or 17 (Will), Epilogue (Notre Dame edition: Chapter 15 (Emotion), 17 (Will), Epilogue)

The reading assignment for March 24 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):

March 27

(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)

March 31

(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 3 and April 7 are taken from the Dover Thrift Edition and photocopies in Senior Seminar Readings (Bookstore).

April 3

  • 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-Douglass Debates:
    "Difference Between the White and Black Races," Charleston, September 18 (photocopy, p. 29)
    "Now, While I am Upon this Subject," Alton, October 15 (photocopy, pp. 30-32)
    "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 7

  • 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" (photocopy, pp. 45-50) )

The readings for April 10 are:

  • Booker T. Washington (Bookstore - 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 (Avon edition) are as follows:

  • April 21:
    (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 24:
    (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, 631 top-660).

    (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 1:
    Chapter 1 (pp. 1-54); Chapter 3 (pp. 79-97).

  • May 5:
    Chapter 4; Introduction (pp. 98-100), Section 3 (pp. 122-210)