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Schedule of readings and assignments (note: readings are to be done by the date at which they are listed) |
Tuesday September 4 First day of class–no reading
Thursday September 6 Plato, Republic Book 1
Tuesday September 11
Thursday September 13 Plato, Republic Books 2-4
Tuesday September 18 Plato, Republic Books 5-8
Thursday September 20 Plato, Republic Books 9-10 AND
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book 1; Book 2; Book 3, Chapters 1-3; Book 5 Chapters 1-7; Book 6 Chapters 5-8, 12-13; Book 8 Chapters 9-12 (note, no Book 10)
Tuesday September 25 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Book 10 AND
Aristotle, Politics Book 1; Book 2 Chapters 1-5; Book 3 Chapters 1-13; Book 4 Chapters 1-12; Book 7 Chapter 1; Book 8 Chapter 1
Thursday September 27 Hebrew Bible: Genesis Chapters 1-23, Deuteronomy
Tuesday October 2 New Testament, Luke, Acts, and Romans
Thursday October 4 al-Qur’an Suras 1, 114, 112, 75, 68, 63, 56, 26, 17, 2-4
Tuesday October 9 Augustine, City of God Book 1 Chapters. 18, 29-36; Book IV Chapters 1-4; Book V; Book VIII Chapters 1-12
Thursday October 11 Augustine, City of God Book XII 1-9, 15-18, 22-24; Book XIV; Book XV 1-6; Book XIX; Book XXII 6, 24, 29-30
Friday October 12 FIRST LONGER PAPER DUE
Tuesday October 16 Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas, On Kingship; Summa I-I, Q. 2, 12, 92, 96; Summa I-II, Q. 90-97, 100-105, 109; Summa II-II, Q. 66; Al-Ghazali, selection from Deliverance from Error in CC Virtual Reader
Thursday October 18 Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian Man" and "Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians" in Hillerbrand, The Protestant Reformation
Friday October 19 CC - WIDE LECTURE: Jonathan Spence, 11am
Tuesday October 23 Luther, "On Governmental Authority," and Calvin, "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" in Hillerbrand
Thursday October 25 REVIEW
Tuesday October 30 MIDTERM
Thursday November 1 Machiavelli, The Prince
Tuesday November 6 ELECTION DAY - UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Thursday November 8 Machiavelli, Discourses selections in Selected Political Writings
Tuesday November 13 De las Casas, Thirty Very Juridical Propositions and Apologetic History of the Indies; Sepulveda, Democrates Alter, all in CC Virtual Reader
Thursday November 15 Galileo, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" in CC Virtual Reader; and other reading TBD
Tuesday November 20 Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy,
Thursday November 22 THANKSGIVING DAY - UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
Tuesday November 27 Hobbes, Leviathan, Introduction, Chapters 1-16
Thursday November 29 Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapters 17-21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 46, 47, Review
Tuesday December 4 Locke, Second Treatise of Government Chapters 1-9, 18, 19
Thursday December 6 REVIEW
Monday December 10 SECOND LONGER PAPER DUE
Friday December 14 FINAL EXAMINATION