Term I Origins
Bible
Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, Job, Isaiah, Daniel
Homer
Iliad, Odyssey
Presocratics
Thales, Anaximander, Anaximines; Heraclitus; Parmenides; Pythagoras; Gorgias; Protagoras; Thrasymachus; Anaxagoras; Democritus; Hippocrates;
Greek Tragedy
(Aeschylus, Orestia; Sophocles, Oedipus, Antigone; Euripides, Medea, Bacchae)
Aristophanes
Clouds, Frogs
Thucydides,
Peloponnesian War
Plato
Republic, Symposium, Protagoras, Gorgias, Phaedrus, Phaedo
Aristotle,
Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics
Virgil
Aeneid
Roman Writers
Horace, Juvenal, Lucian
Roman History
Tacitus, Livy, Sallust
Roman Politics
Seneca, Cicero, Aurelius
Term II Faith and Skepticism
Bible
Synoptics, Acts, James, Romans, John, Revelation (Gnostic Thomas)
Augustine
Confessions
Koran
Song of Roland
Aquinas
Summa Theologica
Dante
The Divine Comedy
Meister Eckhardt
German Sermons
Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Machiavelli
The Prince, The Discourses on Livy, Mandragola
More
Utopia
Montaigne
The Essays
Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
Term III Science, Nature and Society
Shakespeare
Hamlet, King Lear
Galileo
Dialogue on the Two World Systems
Descartes
Discourse on Method
Pascal
The Pensees
Hobbes
Leviathan
Moliere
The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid
Locke
Second Treatise of Government
Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Hume
Inquiry Concerning Morals, Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
Rousseau
Social Contract, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences,
Kant
Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Political Essays
Comte
System of Positive Philosophy
Term IV Self and Sentiment
Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Shelley
Frankenstein
Hegel
Phenomenology of Mind
Kierkegaard
Either/Or Vol. I, Fear and Trembling
Melville
Moby Dick
Bentham
Principles of Morals and Legislation, Handbook of Political Fallacies
Dickens
Hard Times,
Marx
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Grundrisse
Hardy
Jude the Obscure
Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Term V A Labyrinth of Anxiety
Nietzsche
The Gay Science
Tolstoy
War and Peace
Ibsen
A Dolls House, An Enemy of the People
Freud
Interpretation of Dreams, The Future of an Illusion, Totem and Taboo
Kafka
The Metamorphosis
Eliot
Four Quartets
Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, Philosophical Investigations
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Rawls
A Theory of Justice
McIntyre
After Virtue
Burgess/Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange
Conclusion: Sugrue’s Index of Hypothetical Books, Found in the Library of St. Victor