MA in Liberal Arts Reading Lists
Philosophy & Theology
Genesis
Exodus
Job
Matthew
John
Romans
Plato Meno
Plato Phaedo
Plato Symposium
Aristotle Metaphysics
Aristotle De Anima
Augustine Confessions
Aquinas Summa Theologica
Descartes Meditations
Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume Treatise of Human Nature
Kant Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics
Kant Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
Kierkegaard Philosophical Fragments
Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Aristotle Metaphysics
Augustine Confessions
Calvin Institutes
Gospel of John
Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit
Heidegger Being and Time
Hume A Treatise of Human Nature
Kant Critique of Pure Reason
Kierkegaard Either/Or
Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology of Perception
Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed
Nietzche On the Genealogy of Morals
Porete; Julian of Norwich; Teresa of Avila Three Female Christian Mystics
Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise
Whitehead Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality
Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations
Xenophon Education of Cyrus
Albert Camus Essays and Novels on Rebellion, History, and the Absurd Ethics
Descartes Discourse on Method and Passions of the Soul
Carl Jung Essential Readings
Politics & Society
Plutarch Lives of Lycurgus and Solon
Plato Republic
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics
Aquinas Summa Theologica
Machiavelli The Prince
Hobbes Leviathan
Locke Second Treatise of Civil Government
Rousseau Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals
Marx Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
Marx The German Ideology
Tocqueville Democracy in America
Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws
Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution
Madison, Hamilton, Jay The Federalist Papers
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Aristotle Politics
Hegel Philosophy of Right
Hobbes Leviathan
Lincoln Selected Speeches
Machiavelli Discourses on Livy
Mentesquieu The Spirit of the Laws
Nozick Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Plato Gorgias
Rousseau First and Second Discourses
Tocqueville Democracy in America
Weber Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Xenophon The Education of Cyrus
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
Mathematics & Natural Science
Lucretius On the Nature of Things
Plato Timaeus
Aristotle Physics
Euclid Elements
Ptolemy Almagest
Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Descartes Discourse on Method
Bacon The New Organon
Newton Principia
Darwin On the Origin of Species
Lobachevski Theory of Parallels
Freud Selected case studies
Jung 鈥淭he 1912 Lectures on the Theory of Psychoanalysis鈥�
Apollonius, Pascal Conic Sections
Aristotle Philosophical Issues in Aristotle鈥檚 Biology
Bacon, Swift The Project of Modern Science
Darwin On the Origin of Species
Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle
Einstein Relativity: the Special and General Theory
Euclid Book V of the Elements
Galileo Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Goethe Theory of Color
Hilbert Foundations of Geometry
Lorenz Studies in Animal and Human Behavior
Ramachandran Readings in Cognitive Neuroscience
Thompson On Growth and Form
Shelley Frankenstein
Literature
Homer lliad
Homer Odyssey
Aeschylus Agamemnon
Aeschylus Libation Bearers
Aeschylus Eumenides
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles Antigone
Euripides Hippolytus
Euripides Bacchae
Aristophanes Frogs
Aristotle Poetics
Chaucer Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare King Lear
Selected English poetry and short fiction
Black American Writers
Cervantes Don Quixote
Dante The Divine Comedy
Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov, Demons
Eliot Middlemarch
Ellison Invisible Man
Flaubert Madame Bovary
Halld贸r Laxness Independent People
Icelandic Sagas
Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones
Joyce Ulysses
Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Melville Moby Dick
Milton Paradise Lost
Montaigne Essays
翱鈥机辞苍苍辞谤 Wise Blood and selected short stories
Proust Remembrance of Things Past
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Racine Ph猫dre, Brittanicus, and Athalie
Rousseau Emile
Rousseau, Julie, or the New Heloise Letters of Two Lovers who live in a Small Town at the Foot of the Alps
Shakespeare King Lear; A Winter鈥檚 Tale
Tolstoy Anna Karenina; War and Peace
Virgil The Aeneid; Georgics
Woolf To the Lighthouse; Jacob鈥檚 Room
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury; Go Down, Moses
History
I鈥揑I Samuel
Herodotus Histories
Thucydides Peloponnesian War
Polybius Histories
Tacitus Annals
Augustine City of God
Livy History of Rome
Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Vico The New Science
Kant Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Kant The Contest of Faculties
Marx The German Ideology
Nietzsche The Use and Abuse of History
Husserl The Vienna Lecture: 鈥淧hilosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity鈥�
Heidegger The Age of the World Picture
Adams History of the United States during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France
Carlyle The French Revolution: A History
Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Hegel Philosophy of History
Herodotus Histories
Husserl The Crisis of European Sciences
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
Tocqueville The Old Regime and the French Revolution