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Santa Fe Reading List
2012-13

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.

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2012-13 Santa Fe Reading List

Date	Freshman	Sophomore	Junior	Senior
Thursday Aug 23	Homer, *Iliad,* Books 1-6	Hebrew Bible *Genesis,* 1-11	Cervantes, *Don Quixote,* Volume I	Tolstoy, *War and Peace*
Monday Aug 27	*Iliad,* Books 7-12	*Genesis,* 12-23	*Don Quixote,* Volume II	*War and Peace*
Thursday Aug 30	*Iliad,* Books 13-18	*Genesis,* 24-50	Descartes, *Meditations*, To the Reader, Synopsis, Meditations I-III	Goethe, *Faust**
Monday Sep 3	*Iliad,* Books 19-24	*Exodus*	*Meditations* IV-VI	*Faust**
Thursday Sep 6	Homer, *Odyssey,* Books 1-8	*Deuteronomy*	Pascal, *Pensees,* selections*	Hegel, *Phenome-nology of Spirit**
Monday Sep 10	*Odyssey,* Books 9-16	*Samuel, I,II; Kings, Chronicles**	*Pensees,* selections*	Phenomenology*
Thursday Sep 13	*Odyssey,* Books 17-24	Psalms*	Milton, *Paradise* *Lost,* Books 1-3	Phenomenology*
Monday Sep 17	Aeschylus, *Agamemnon*	Jeremiah & Jonah*	*Paradise* *Lost,* Books 4-5; 8-9	Phenomenology*
Thursday Sep 20	Aeschylus, *Libation Bearers* and Eumenides	*Job*	*Paradise* *Lost,* Books 10-12	Phenomenology*
Monday Sep 24	Herodotus, Histories*	Livy, The Early History of Rome*	Hobbes, *Leviathan,* "Dedication," "Preface," Chapters 1-9	Phenomenology*
Thursday Sep 27	Histories*	Plutarch, *Lives,* Cato the Youngerand Caesar	*Leviathan,* Chapters 10-16	Phenomenology*
Monday Oct 1	Histories*	Plutarch, Antony and Brutus	*Leviathan,* Chapters 17-21,26, 31 [final paragraph] "Review & Conclusion"	Tocqueville, Democracy in America*
Thursday Oct 4	Plato, *Gorgias,* 447a-481b	Virgil, *Aeneid,* Books 1-4	Spinoza, *Theologico- Political Treatise**	Democracy in America*
Monday Oct 8	*Gorgias,* 481b-527c	*Aeneid,* Books 5-8	*Theologico- Political Treatise**	Democracy in America*
Thursday Oct 11	Plato, *Meno*	*Aeneid,* Books 9-12	Locke, Second Treatise of Government*	Kierkegaard, *Fear & Trembling**
Monday Oct 15	Sophocles, *Antigone*	Tacitus, *Annals,* I-II	Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality*	Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments*
Thursday Oct 18	Plato, Republic, I	*Annals,* III-VI	*Discourse on the Origin of Inequality**	Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments*
Monday Oct 22	*Republic*, II-III	Epictetus, Discourses*	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Oct 25	*Republic*, IV-V	New Testament *Matthew*	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Oct 29	*Republic,* VI-VII	New Testament John (Gospel), *I John* (Epistle)	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Nov 1	*Republic,* VIII-IX	New Testament Acts	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Nov 5	*Republic,* X	New Testament Romans	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Nov 8	Aristophanes, *Clouds*	New Testament *I Corinthians*	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Nov 12	Plato, *Apology, Crito*	Aristotle, *On the Soul,* II, 1-7, 11-12	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Nov 15	Plato, *Phaedo*, 57a-89a	*On the Soul,* III, 3-13; I, 4, 408b 18-30	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Nov 19	*Phaedo*, 89b-118a	Plotinus, Enneads*	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Nov 26	Sophocles, *Oedipus Rex*	Augustine, *Confessions,* 1-6	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Nov 29	Plato, *Theaetetus,* 142a-187a	*Confessions,* 7-9	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Dec 3	*Theaetetus,* 187a-210c	*Confessions,* 10-11	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Dec 6	Plato, *Sophist,* 216a-249d	Maimonides, *Guide of the Perplexed**	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Monday Dec 10	*Sophist* 249d-end	*Guide of the Perplexed**	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
Thursday Dec 13	Aeschylus, *Prometheus Bound*	*Guide of the Perplexed**	Preceptorials	Preceptorials
		WINTER VACATION
Monday Jan 14	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 17	*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 21	*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 24	*Peloponnesian War,* VI, 32-105; VII; VIII, 1-18	Summa Theologiae*	Leibniz, selections*	[Essay Preparation]
Monday Jan 28	Plato, *Phaedrus*, 227a-257c	Dante, *Divine Comedy,* Inferno, Cantos 1-17	Hume, Treatise of Human Nature*	[Essay Preparation]
Thursday Jan 31	Plato, *Phaedrus*, 257c-end	*Divine Comedy,* Inferno, Cantos 18-End	Treatise of Human Nature*	[Essay Preparation]
Monday Feb 4	Plato, *Symposium,* 172a-201c	*Divine Comedy,* Purgatorio, Cantos 1-18	Treatise of Human Nature*	[Essay Preparation]
Thursday Feb 7	*Symposium,* 201d-223d	*Divine Comedy,* Purgatorio, Cantos 19-End	Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals*	[Essay Preparation]
Monday Feb 11	Aristotle, *Nicomachean Ethics*; I	*Divine Comedy,* Paradiso, Cantos 1-17	Kant, Critique of Pure Reason*	Marx, *Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts**
Thursday Feb 14	*Nicomachean Ethics*; II, III	*Divine Comedy,* Paradiso, Cantos 18-End	Critique of Pure Reason*	Marx, *Capital**
Monday Feb 18	*Nicomachean Ethics*; IV, V	Thomas Aquinas, *Summa Theologiae**	Critique of Pure Reason*	Marx, *German Ideology*: Part 1
Thursday Feb 21	*Nicomachean Ethics*; VI, VII	Summa Theologiae*	Critique of Pure Reason*	Wagner, *Tristan & Isolde*
Monday Feb 25	*Nicomachean Ethics*; VIII, IX	Chaucer *Canterbury* *Tales**	Critique of Pure Reason*	Nietzsche, *Beyond Good and Evil,* Preface, Parts I & II
Thursday Feb 28	*Nicomachean Ethics*; X	*Canterbury* Tales*	Critique of Pure Reason*	*Beyond Good and Evil,* Parts III-V
Monday Mar 4	Aristotle, *Politics**	*Canterbury* Tales*	Critique of Pure Reason*	*Beyond Good and Evil*, Parts VI & VII
Thursday Mar 7	Politics*	Shakespeare *As You Like It*	Wordsworth, *Two Part Prelude*	*Beyond Good and Evil*, Parts VIII & IX, "Aftersong"
		SPRING VACATION
Monday Mar 25	Sophocles, *Ajax*	Machiavelli, *The Prince*, I - XIV	Austen, *Emma**	Joyce, "The Dead"
Thursday Mar 28	Lucretius, On *the* Nature of Things, I-II	*The Prince*, XV -XXVI	*Emma**	Freud, *Introductory Lectures*, I-VIII
Monday Apr 1	*On the Nature of Things*, III-IV	Shakespeare, *Midsummer Night’s Dream*	Rousseau, *Social Contract*, I, II, IV-8 “Civil Religion”	*Introductory Lectures*, IX-XI, XIII-XIV, XVII (pp. 323-333 only), XVIII-XIX
Thursday Apr 4	*On Nature of Things*, V-VI	Montaigne, *Essays:* "Education of Children," "Of Cannibals"	Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason,* “Canon;” Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals *	*Introductory Lectures*, XX-XXIV
Monday Apr 8	Plato, *Timaeus*, 17a-53e	*Essays*, “Of Experience”	Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals*	Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"
Thursday Apr 11	Aristotle, Physics*	Shakespeare, *Richard II*	Mozart, *Don Giovanni*	Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences*
Monday Apr 15	Physics*	Shakespeare, *Henry IV, Part I*	Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations*	Husserl, Crisis of European Sciences*
Thursday Apr 18	Physics*	Shakespeare, *Henry IV, Part II*	Wealth of Nations*	Heidegger, *Basic Writings*,"What is Metaphysics?"
Monday Apr 22	*Physics**	Bacon, New Organon*	Wealth of Nations*	Heidegger, “The Word of Nietzsche: God is Dead”*
Thursday Apr 25	*Physics**	Bacon, *New Atlantis; Great Instauration*	Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter: Author’s preface; “Custom House”; Ch. 1-8	Melville, *Benito Cereno*
Monday Apr 29	Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book I (Α), Ch.1-2; Book XII (Λ), Ch. 6-10	Descartes, *Discourse on Method,*I-III	*Scarlet Letter* Ch. 9-end	Dred Scott Decision*
Thursday May 2	Euripides, Bacchae	*Discourse on Method,*IV-VI	Declaration of Independence; U.S. Constitution Madison, Hamilton, Jay, The Federalist*	Lincoln Speeches; Constitutional Amendments*
Monday May 6	Sophocles, *Oedipus at Colonus*	Shakespeare, *Othello*	*The Federalist**	W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 1,6,10-14
Thursday May 9	Aristophanes, *Frogs*	Shakespeare *Macbeth*	*The Federalist**	Supreme Court Decisions*
Monday May 13	Aristotle, *Poetics*	Shakespeare, *King Lear*	Twain, *Huckleberry Finn* Ch. 1-21	Virginia Woolf, *Mrs. Dalloway*
Thursday May 16	Sophocles, *Philoctetes*	Shakespeare, *Tempest*	*Huckleberry Finn* Ch. 22-end	*Mrs. Dalloway*

Academic Program

Academic Program

Santa Fe Reading List 2012-13

Santa Fe Reading List
2012-13