Academic Program
Annapolis — Undergraduate Reading List 2011-2012
The following reading list may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean's office. Asterisks (*) indicate selections detailed in the supplement sheets. To view the detailed reading lists, click on the class header.
| Date | Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| Aug. 25,
2011 |
Homer: Iliad I-VI | Bible: Genesis 1-11 | Cervantes: Don Quixote Part I | Tolstoi: War and Peace |
| Aug. 29,
2011 |
Homer: Iliad VII-XII | Bible: Genesis 12-25 | Cervantes: Don Quixote | Tolstoi: War and Peace |
| Sep. 01,
2011 |
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 |
| Sep. 05,
2011 |
Homer: Iliad XIX-XXIV | Bible: Exodus; Numbers 20 | Descartes: Meditations IV-VI | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Introduction, sections 73-89 |
| Sep. 08, 2011 |
Homer: Odyssey I-VIII | Bible: Leviticus 11, 18-20; Deuteronomy | Pascal: Pensées (selections)* | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Sense Certainty, Perception, sections 90-116 |
| Sep. 12,
2011 |
Homer: Odyssey IX-XVI | Bible: Samuel I, II; Kings I, 1-4 | Pascal: Pensées (selections)* | Hegel: Phenomenologyof Spirit Lordship and Bondage, sections 178-196 |
| Sep. 15,
2011 |
Homer: Odyssey XVII-XXIV | Bible: Psalms (selections)* | Milton: Paradise Lost I-III | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Stoicism and Skepticism, sections 197-206 |
| Sep. 19,
2011 |
Plato: Meno | Bible: Amos; Jonah; Isaiah 40-55 | Milton: Paradise Lost IV; V; VI Argument only; VII Argument, 1-39; VIII | Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Unhappy Consciousness, sections 207-230 |
| Sep. 22,
2011 |
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 |
| Sep. 26,
2011 |
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, sections 659-671; AbsoluteKnowing, sections 806-808 |
| Sep. 29,
2011 |
Plato: Gorgias 447A-481B | Lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV-VI | Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 12-18 | Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto; The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selections)* |
| Oct. 03,
2011 |
Plato: Gorgias 481B-527E | Virgil: Aeneid I-IV | Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* | Marx and Engels: Capital Vol. I Part I (selections)* |
| Oct. 06,
2011 |
Plutarch: Lives Lycurgus; Solon | Virgil: Aeneid V-VIII | Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* | Marx and Engels: Capital Vol. I Part II (selections)* |
| Oct. 10,
2011 |
Herodotus: History I; II, 50-53, 112-120; III, 37, 38, 66-87 | Virgil: Aeneid IX-XII | Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise (selections)* | Marx: The German Ideology (selections)* |
| Oct. 13,
2011 |
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 (selections)* | Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling beginning - Problema I |
| Oct. 17,
2011 |
Herodotus: History VIII; IX | Tacitus: Annals I-II | Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics | Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapters I - III (incl. Appendix) |
| Oct. 20,
2011 |
Plato: Republic I-II 367E | Tacitus: Annals III-VI | Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (selections)* | Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapter IV - end (Moral) |
| Oct. 24,
2011 |
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. 27,
2011 |
Plato: Republic IV 427D-VI 502C | Bible: Matthew | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Oct. 31,
2011 |
Plato: Republic VI 502D-VII | Bible: Luke | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 03,
2011 |
Plato: Republic VIII-IX | Bible: Acts | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 07,
2011 |
Plato: Republic X | Bible: Gospel of John; First Letter of John | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 10,
2011 |
Aristophanes: Clouds | Bible: I Corinthians | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 14,
2011 |
Plato: Apology and Crito | Bible: Romans; James | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 17,
2011 |
Plato: Phaedo 57A-84B | Plotinus: (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 21,
2011 |
Plato: Phaedo 84B-118B | Augustine: Confessions I-V | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Nov. 28,
2011 |
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War I; II, 1-46 | Augustine: Confessions VI-IX | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 01,
2011 |
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War II, 47-end; III; IV, 1-41 | Augustine: Confessions X-XI | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 05, 2011 |
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War IV, 42-end; V; VI, 1-32 | Anselm: Proslogium | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 08, 2011 |
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War VI, 33-end; VII | Christian Creeds: (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 12,
2011 |
Plato: Symposium beginning-198A | Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
| Dec. 15,
2011 |
Plato: Symposium 198-end | Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)* | Preceptorial | Preceptorial |
2011-2012 Seminar Reading List - Spring Semester
| Date | Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| Jan. 9, 2012 |
Plato: Parmenides beginning-148D, 166C | Dante: Divine Comedy, Inferno I-XVII | George Eliot: Middlemarch | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 12, 2012 |
Plato: Theaetetus beginning-186 | Dante: Divine Comedy, Inferno XVIII-XXXIV | George Eliot: Middlemarch | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 16, 2012 |
Plato: Theaetetus 187-end | Dante: Divine Comedy, Purgatorio I-XVIII | Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)* | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 19, 2012 |
Plato: Sophist beginning-242B | Dante: Divine Comedy, Purgatorio XIX-XXXIII | Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)* | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 23, 2012 |
Plato: Sophist 242C to end | Dante: Divine Comedy, Paradiso I-XVII | Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)* | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 26, 2012 |
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (selections)* | Dante: Divine Comedy, Paradiso XVIII-XXXIII | Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)* | Essay Writing Period |
| Jan. 30, 2012 |
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. 2, 2012 |
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. 6, 2012 |
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. 9, 2012 |
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. 13, 2012 |
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. 16, 2012 |
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. 20, 2012 |
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. 23, 2012 |
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus | Shakespeare: As You Like It | Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)* | Conrad: Heart of Darkness |
| Feb. 27, 2012 |
Sophocles: Antigone | Montaigne: Essays (selections)* | Locke: Second Treatise of Government Chapters I-IX | William James: Psychology, A Briefer Course(selections)* |
| Mar. 1, 2012 |
Plato: Timaeus Beginning-57 | Montaigne: Essays(selections)* | Locke: Second Treatise of Government Chapters X-XIX | William James: Psychology, A Briefer Course(selections)* |
| Mar. 19, 2012 |
Aristotle: Physics I (A) 1 (184a10-184b16), 7-9 (189b30-192b7) II (B) (192b8-200b11) | Machiavelli: The Prince | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice | Dostoevski: The Brothers Karamazov |
| Mar. 22, 2012 |
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: The Brothers Karamazov |
| Mar. 26, 2012 |
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 |
| Mar. 29, 2012 |
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. 2, 2012 |
Sophocles: Philoctetes | Shakespeare: Othello | Molière: The Misanthrope | Tocqueville: Democracy in America (selections)* |
| Apr. 5, 2012 |
Aristotle: Metaphysics I (A) 1-7 (980a21- 988b22) II (a) (993a30- 995a20) | Shakespeare: Hamlet | Mozart: Don Giovanni | Dred Scott Decision (available in Bookstore), and Dissenting Opinion of Mr. Justice Curtis (separately available in Bookstore); Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches* |
| Apr. 9, 2012 |
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 number 430 – which is in the middle of page 98 in Harper, at the bottom of page 37 in Hackett) | Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches* |
| Apr. 12, 2012 |
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 ofSection II; III | Plessy v. Ferguson (available in Bookstore); Booker T. Washington: (photocopy of speeches in Bookstore); W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk (selections)* |
| Apr. 16, 2012 |
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. 19, 2012 |
Euripides: The Bacchae | Bacon: Novum Organum, Book I, Preface and Aphorisms 1-115 (LLA Edition, pp. 33-106; Open Court Edition, pp. 37-117; Cambridge Edition pp. 27-89) | Swift: Gulliver’s Travels III, IV | Faulkner: Go Down Moses “The Bear,” IV-V “Delta Autumn” |
| Apr. 23, 2012 |
Aristotle: Poetics | Bacon: Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorisms 116-130; Book II, Aphorisms 1-20 (LLA Edition pp. 106-156; Open Court Edition, pp. 117-173; Cambridge Edition pp. 89-135) | Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations (selections)* | Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (selections)* |
| Apr. 26, 2012 |
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) |
| Apr. 30, 2012 |
Aristotle: On the Soul I, 1; II, 1-7, 11-12 | Descartes: Discourse on Method V-VI | Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution (without amendments), and Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections)* | Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, Preface and sections 1-134 |
| May 3, 2012 |
Aristotle: On the SoulIII, 1-13 | Shakespeare: Macbeth | Amendments to the U. S. Constitution and Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections)* | Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics (selections)* |
| May 7, 2012 |
Plato: Phaedrus beginning-257 | Shakespeare: King Lear* | Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections)* | Heidegger: Introduction to Metaphysics (selections)* |
| May 10, 2012 |
Plato: Phaedrus 257-end | Shakespeare: The Tempest | Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn | Plato: Phaedrus |
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