CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION READING LIST 2011-2012

REQUIRED CC READINGS--CC1101 FALL 2011

Plato, Republic (complete)

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics

Hebrew Bible: Exodus (entire), Isaiah (Chpts 1-39), Ecclesiastes (entire)

Hellenistic and Roman Thought: Epicurus (selections on CC Web) and Epictetus, Handbook

The New Testament: Matthew (entire), Romans (entire), Galatians (entire)

Augustine, City of God

The Qur'an

Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas, Selected Writings (pp. 3-7, 14-29, 30-38, 46-53); Al-Ghazali, The Rescuer

from Error (selection on CC Web)

Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses

The Protestant Reformation: selections from the Hillerbrand Anthology

Descartes, Meditations, and Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess ( CC Web)

New World: Vitoria, On The American Indians; de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies and Thirty

Very Juridical Propositions; de Sepulveda, Democrates Alter; Or, On the Just Causes for War Against the

Indians (on CC Web)

Hobbes, Leviathan

Locke, Second Treatise and Letter on Toleration

Texts: Optional Readings:

Plato, Republic (Hackett) Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford University Press) Descartes, Discourse on Method (Hackett)

Aristotle, Politics (Hackett)

The Holy Bible (Revised Standard Edition)

Epictetus, Handbook (Hackett)

Augustine, City of God (Penguin)

The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an (Amana)

Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett), Machiavelli, The Discourses (Penguin)

Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett)

The Protestant Reformation (Harper & Row)

Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford)

Locke, Second Treatise (Hackett) and Letter on Toleration (Hackett)

REQUIRED CC READINGS—CC1102 SPRING 2012

Assignment over the break, to be discussed in first class of spring semester: Kant, "What is

Enlightenment?" (CC Web)

Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality and Social Contract

Smith, Wealth of Nations

Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals OR Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

American Revolution: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist Papers (CC Web)

French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, Robespierre, "On the Moral and

Political Principles of Domestic Policy?; Sieyès, "What is the Third Estate?" (CC Web)

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History

Mill, On Liberty

Marx, selections from the Marx-Engels Reader

Darwin, selections from Origin of Species and Descent of Man

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis OR Civilization and its Discontents

Woolf, Three Guineas

TEXTS: OPTIONAL TEXTS:

Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings (Hackett) Mill, Utilitarianism (Oxford)

Smith, Wealth of Nations (Modern Library) Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage) Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett) Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago)

Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hackett) Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)

Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge) Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage) Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford) MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of State (Harvard)

Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover) Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard)

Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Penguin) Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago) Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (Hackett) Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (MIT)

Mill, On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford) Voltaire, Candide (Penguin)

Marx-Engels Reader (Norton) Darwin, On the Origin of Species and Descent of Man (Broadview)

Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo (Vintage) Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Dover)

Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Norton),

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton) Woolf, Three Guineas (Harcourt)