Academic Program

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