Academic Program
Santa Fe Reading List
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 supplement sheets, click on the class header.
| Date | Freshman | Sophomore | Junior | Senior |
| Thursday, Aug. 30 | Homer, Iliad, Books 1-6 |
Hebrew Bible |
Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume I | Tolstoy, War and Peace |
| Monday, Sept. 3 | Iliad, Books 7-12 | Genesis, 12-23 | Don Quixote, Volume II | War and Peace |
| Thursday, Sept. 6 | Iliad, Books 13-18 | Genesis, 24-50 | Descartes, Meditations, To the Reader, Synopsis, Meditations I-III | Goethe, Faust* |
| Monday, Sept. 10 | Iliad, Books 19-24 | Exodus | Meditations IV-VI | Faust* |
| Thursday, Sept. 13 | Homer, Odyssey,Books 1-8 | Deuteronomy | Pascal, Pensees,selections* | Hegel, Phenome-nology of Spirit* |
| Monday, Sept. 17 | Odyssey, Books 9-16 |
Samuel, I,II; Kings, Chronicles* | Pensees, selections* | Phenomenology* |
| Thursday, Sept. 20 | Odyssey, Books 17-24 |
Psalms* | Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 1-3 |
Phenomenology* |
| Monday, Sept. 24 | Aeschylus, Agamemnon | Jeremiah & Jonah* | Paradise Lost, Books 4-5; 8-9 |
Phenomenology* |
| Thursday, Sept. 27 | Aeschylus, Libation Bearers and Eumenides | Job | Paradise Lost, Books 10-12 |
Phenomenology* |
| Monday, Oct. 1 | Herodotus, Histories* | Livy, The Early History of Rome* | Hobbes, Leviathan, "Dedication," "Preface," Chapters 1-9 |
Phenomenology* |
| Thursday, Oct. 4 | Histories* | Plutarch, Lives, Cato the Younger and Caesar | Leviathan, Chapters 10-16 |
Phenomenology* |
| Monday, Oct. 8 | Histories* | Plutarch, Antony and Brutus |
Leviathan, Chapters 17-21,26, "Review & Conclusion" |
Tocqueville, Democracy in America* |
| Thursday, Oct. 11 | Plato, Meno | Virgil, Aeneid, Books 1-4 |
Spinoza, Theologico- Political Treatise* | Democracy in America* |
| Monday, Oct. 15 | Plato, Meno | Aeneid, Books 5-8 |
Theologico- Political Treatise* |
Democracy in America* |
| Thursday, Oct. 18 | Plato, Gorgias, 447a-481b |
Aeneid, Books 9-12 |
Locke, Second Treatise of Government* | Kierkegaard, Fear & Trembling* |
| Monday, Oct. 22 | Gorgias, 481b-527c |
Tacitus, Annals, I-II |
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality* |
Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments* |
| Thursday, Oct. 25 | Sophocles, Antigone |
Annals, III-VI | Discourse on the Origin of Inequality* |
Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments* |
| Monday, Oct. 29 | Plato, Republic, I | Epictetus, Discourses* |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Nov. 1 | Republic, II-III | New Testament Matthew |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Nov. 5 | Republic, IV-V | New Testament John (Gospel), I John (Epistle) |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Nov. 8 | Republic, VI-VII | New Testament Acts | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Nov. 12 | Republic, VIII-IX | New Testament Romans | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Nov. 15 | Republic, X | New Testament I Corinthians |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Nov. 19 | Aristophanes, Clouds |
Aristotle, On the Soul, II, 1-7, 11-12 |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Wednesday, Nov. 21 | Plato, Apology, Crito | On the Soul, III, 3-13; I, 4, 408b 18-30 |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Nov. 26 | Plato, Phaedo, 57a-89a |
Plotinus* | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Nov. 29 | Phaedo, 89b-118a | Plotinus* | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Dec. 3 | Sophocles, Oedipus Rex | Augustine, Confessions, 1-6 |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Dec. 6 | Plato, Theaetetus,142a-187a | Confessions, 7-9 | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Dec. 10 | Theaetetus, 187a-210c |
Confessions, 10-11 | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Dec. 13 | Plato, Sophist, 216a-249d |
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed* |
Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Monday, Dec. 17 | Sophist, 249d-268d |
Guide of the Perplexed* | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
| Thursday, Dec. 20 | Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound | Guide of the Perplexed* | Preceptorials | Preceptorials |
WINTER BREAK
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| Monday, Jan. 21 | Thucydides Peloponnesian War, I; II, 1-46 |
Anselm, Proslogium; Gaunilon's Reply and Anselm's Response |
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, 1-2 |
Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov, Parts I-III (Books I-IX) |
| Thursday, Jan. 24 | Peloponnesian War, II, 47-65; III, 1-86; IV, 1-41 |
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae* |
Gulliver’s Travels, 3-4 | Brothers Karamazov, Part IV (Books X and XI) |
| Monday, Jan. 28 | Peloponnesian War, IV, 42-135; V, 1-26, 84-116; VI, 1-32 | Summa Theologiae* |
Leibniz, selections* | Brothers Karamazov, Book XII and "Epilogue" |
| Thursday, Jan. 31 | Peloponnesian War, VI, 32-105; VII; VIII, 1-18 | Summa Theologiae* |
Leibniz, selections* | [Essay Preparation] |
| Monday, Feb. 4 | Plato, Phaedrus, 227a-257c | Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno | Hume, Treatise of Human Nature* | [Essay Preparation] |
| Thursday, Feb. 7 | Plato, Phaedrus, 257c-end | Divine Comedy, Inferno | Treatise of Human Nature* | [Essay Preparation] |
| Monday, Feb. 11 | Plato, Symposium, 172a-201c | Divine Comedy,Purgatorio | Treatise of Human Nature* | [Essay Preparation] |
| Thursday, Feb. 14 | Symposium, 201d-223d |
Divine Comedy,Purgatorio | Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals, Second Enquiry, I - VI; IX | [Essay Preparation] |
| Monday, Feb. 18 | Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics* | Divine Comedy,Paradiso | Kant, Critique of Pure Reason* | Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts* |
| Thursday, Feb. 21 | Nicomachean Ethics* | Divine Comedy,Paradiso | Critique of Pure Reason* | Marx, Capital* |
| Monday, Feb. 25 | Nicomachean Ethics* | Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae* | Critique of Pure Reason* | Marx, German Ideology: Part 1 |
| Thursday, Feb. 28 | Nicomachean Ethics* | Summa Theologiae* | Critique of Pure Reason* | Wagner, Tristan & Isolde |
| Monday, Mar. 3 | Nicomachean Ethics* | Chaucer Canterbury Tales* |
Critique of Pure Reason* | Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Preface, Parts I & II |
| Thursday, Mar. 6 | Sophocles, Ajax | Canterbury Tales* | Critique of Pure Reason* | Beyond Good and Evil, Parts III-V |
| Monday, Mar. 10 | Aristotle, Politics* | Canterbury Tales* | Critique of Pure Reason* | Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VI-VII |
| Thursday, Mar. 13 | Politics* | Shakespeare As You Like It |
Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 | Beyond Good and Evil, Parts VIII & IX, "Aftersong" |
Spring Break
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| Monday, Mar. 31 | Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, I-II |
Machiavelli, The Prince, I - XIV | Austen, Pride and Prejudice | Joyce, "The Dead" |
| Thursday, Apr. 3 | On the Nature of Things, III-IV | The Prince, XV -XXVI | Pride and Prejudice | Freud, Introductory Lectures, I-VIII |
| Monday, Apr. 7 | On Nature of Things, V-VI | Shakespeare, Measure for Measure |
Rousseau, Social Contract, I, II, IV-8 “Civil Religion” |
Introductory Lectures, IX-XI, XIII-XIV, XVIII-XIX |
| Thursday, Apr. 10 | Plato, Timaeus*, 17a-53e | Montaigne, Essays:"Education of Children," "Of Cannibals" | Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, “Canon;”Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals * | Introductory Lectures, XX-XXIV |
| Monday, Apr. 14 | Aristotle, Physics* | Essays, "Of Experience" |
Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals* | Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" |
| Thursday, Apr. 17 | Physics* | Shakespeare, Richard II | Mozart – Don Giovanni |
Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences* |
| Monday, Apr. 21 | Physics* | Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I |
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations* | Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences* |
| Thursday, Apr. 24 | Physics* | Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II |
Wealth of Nations* | Heidegger, Basic Writings,"What is Metaphysics?" |
| Monday, Apr. 28 | Physics* | Bacon, New Organon* |
Wealth of Nations* | Heidegger, “The Word of Nietzsche: God is Dead”* |
| Thursday, May 1 | Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book I, Ch.1-2; Book IV, Ch. 1-3 |
Bacon, New Atlantis; Great Instauration | Hawthorne, “Custom House” and Scarlet Letter | Melville, Benito Cereno |
| Monday, May 5 | Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book VII, Ch.1-4; Book IX, Ch. 6; Book XII, Ch. 6-10 |
Descartes, Discourse on Method, I-III | Scarlet Letter | Dred Scott Decision; Lincoln, selected speeches* |
| Thursday, May 8 | Euripides, Hippolytus | Discourse on Method,IV-VI | Declaration of Independence; U.S. Constitution Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist* |
W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk,Ch. 1,6,10-14 |
| Monday, May 12 | Euripides, Bacchae | Shakespeare, Hamlet | The Federalist* | Supreme Court Decisions* |
| Thursday, May 15 | Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus | Shakespeare Macbeth |
The Federalist* | Supreme Court Decisions* |
| Monday, May 19 | Aristotle, Poetics | Shakespeare, King Lear |
Twain, Huckleberry Finn | Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway |
| Thursday, May 22 | Sophocles, Philoctetes | Shakespeare, Tempest |
Huckleberry Finn | Mrs. Dalloway |