Contemporary Civilization Texts
Fall SemesterRepublic, Plato

Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

Politics, Aristotle

The Hebrew Bible

Roman & Hellenistic Thought

New Testament

City of God, Augustine

The Qur'an

Medieval Philosophy

The Discourses, Machiavelli

The Prince, Machiavelli
The Protestant Reformation (Selected Readings), Various

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes

The Scientific Revolution

New World Writings

Leviathan, Hobbes

Second Treatise, LockeSpring SemesterThe Writings of David Hume

Discourse on Inequality and Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant

American Revolution and Founding Texts

Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

The French Revolution

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

On Liberty and Other Essays, John Stuart Mill

Selections from the Marx-Engels Reader, Karl Marx

On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche

The Writings of Charles Darwin

The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Writings of Sigmund Freud

Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf