Seminar Reading List

2006-2007 Seminar Reading List

* see appendix

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Aug. 24 Homer:
Iliad
I-VI		 Bible
Genesis
1-11		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote
Part I		 Tolstoi
War and Peace
Aug. 28 Homer:
Iliad,
VII-XII		 Bible
Genesis
12-25		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoi
War and Peace
Aug. 31 Homer:
Iliad,
XIII-XVIII		 Bible
Genesis
26-50		 Descartes:
Meditations
Letter of Dedication,
Preface, I-III		 Hegel: Logic,
(Part One of the Encyclopedia),
sections 79-89
Sept. 4 Homer:
Iliad
XIX-XXIV		 Bible
Exodus;
Numbers, 20		 Descartes:
Mediations
IV-VI		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,Introduction,
sections 73-89
Sept. 7 Homer:
Odyssey,
I-VIII		 Bible
Leviticus
11, 18-20;
Deuteronomy		 Pascal:
Pensees
(selections)*		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Sense Certainty,
Perception, sections
90-116
Sept. 11 Homer:
Odyssey,
IX-XVI		 Bible
Judges 19-21;
I Samuel 8-31;
II Samuel;
I Kings 1-4		 Pascal:
Pensees
(selections)*		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
178-196;
Lordship and Bondage
Sept. 145 Homer:
Odyssey
XVII-XXIV		 Bible
Psalms
(selections)*		 Milton:
Paradise Lost,
I-III		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Stoicism and Skepticism (197-206)
Sept. 18 Plato:
Meno		 Bible
II Chronicles
36; Amos; Jonah;
Isaiah 40-55		 Milton:
Paradise Lost,
Books IV; V;
VI Argument only;
VII Argument,
1-39; VIII		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit,
Unhappy Consciousness
(207-230)
Sept. 21 Aeschylus
Agamemnon		 Bible
Job		 Milton:
Paradise Lost
IX-X
XI to 428
XII 446
to end		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, Conscience and
The Beautiful Soul
sections 632-658
Sept. 25 Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers;
Eumenides		 Plutarch:
Lives Caesar;
Cato the Younger		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Letter of Dedication,
Author's Preface,
Chapters 1-13		 Hegel: Phenomenology
of Spirit, The Beautiful
Soul and Forgiveness
(659-671);
Absolute Knowing,
sections 806-808
Sept. 28 Plato:
Gorgias
447A-481B		 Virgil:
Aeneid
I-V		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 14-18		 Marx:
Communist Manifesto; The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, (Prometheus edition, pages 69-114) Chapters "Estranged Labor," "Antithesis of Capital and Labor," "Private Property and Labor," and "Private Property and Communism"
Oct. 2 Plato
Gorgias
481B-527E		 Virgil:
Aeneid
VI-VIII		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 19-21,
24-25, 27, 28 (only
the very last
paragraph), 29		 Marx:
Capital
(selections)*
Oct. 5 Plutarch:
Lives
Lycurgus;
Solon		 Virgil:
Aeneid
IX-XII		 Hobbes:
Leviathan
Chapters 30-31,
32 (first four
paragraphs), 38
(paragraphs 3-6, 17-24, according to the
Hackett numbering),39, 43, 46-47; A Review and Conclusion (last paragraph)		 Marx:
Capital
(selections)*
Oct. 9 Herodotus:
History
I; II, 50-53
112-120; III,
37, 38, 66-87		 Tacitus:
Annals, I-II		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political
Treatise,
Preface and Chapters I-VI		 Marx:
The German Ideology
all of Part One (International Publishers pp. 35-95); "Theses on Feuerbach" (pp. 121-123),
"Letter to George Weydemeyer" (photocopy)
Oct. 12 Herodotus:
History
V, 76-78, 91-93, 105;
VI, 48
56-72, 94-120; VII
(entire)		 Tacitus:
Annals, III-VI		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political
Treatise,Chapters
VII, XII-XVII
(stopping right after
reference to Tacitus
on page 217 of
Dover, or page 194
of Hackett, or sentence number 17.3.13 in Yaffe);
XIX-XX		 Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling
Through Problema I
Oct. 16 Herodotus:
History
VIII; IX		 Epictetus:
Discourses
and Handbook
(selections)*		 Leibniz:
Discourse on
Metaphysics		 Kierkegaard
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapters I-III
(including Appendix)
Oct. 19 Plato:
Republic
I-II 367E		 Bible
Matthew		 Leibniz:
Philosophical
Essays*
(selections)*		 Kierkegaard:
Philosophical Fragments,
Chapter IV-end (Moral)
Oct. 23 Plato:
Republic
II 367E-
IV 427C		 Bible
Luke		 Leibniz:
Principles of
Nature and
Grace; Monadology;
Philosophical
Essays		 Melville: Benito Cereno
Oct. 26 Plato:
Republic
IV 427D-VI 502C		 Bible
Acts		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Oct. 30 Plato:
Republic
VI 502D-VII		 Bible
Gospel of
John; First
Letter of John		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 2 Plato:
Republic
VIII-IX		 Bible
I Corinthians		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 6 Plato:
Republic X		 Bible
Romans		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 9 Aristophanes:
Clouds		 Aristotle:
De Anima
II, 1-7, 11-12		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 13 Plato:
Apology and
Crito		 Aristotle:
De Anima
III, 1-13; I, 4, 408b
18-30		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 16 Plato:
Phaedo
57A-84B		 Plotinus
(selections)*		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 20 Plato:
Phaedo
84B-118B		 Augustine
Confessions
I-V		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
THANKSGIVING
Nov. 27 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
I; II, 1-46		 Augustine
Confessions
VI-IX		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Nov. 30 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
II, 47-end; III; IV,1-41		 Augustine
Confessions
X-XI		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 4 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
IV, 42-end; V; VI,
1-32		 Anselm:
Proslogium		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 7 Thucydides:
Peloponnesian War
VI, 33-end; VII		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
First Part, Ques. 1;
Second Part of the
Second Part, Question 1:
Creeds		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 11 Plato:
Symposium
beginning-198A		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae
First Part,
Questions 2,3,4		 Preceptorial Preceptorial
Dec. 14
Thursday		 Plato:
Symposium
198-end		 Thomas Acquinas:
Summa Theologiae
First Part, Question 5,
articles 1-4;
Question 6;
Question 7, articles 1-2;
Question 8;
Question 9;
Question 11,
articles 3-4		 Preceptorial Preceptorial

END OF FIRST SEMESTER, 2006-2007

APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE OF SEMINAR READINGS -
FIRST SEMESTER 2006-2007


SOPHOMORE

The Psalms for the September 14 reading are: Psalms 1,8,14,19,22,23,42,46,51,90,121,122,126,130,131,137,139,148. (These numbers are as in the RSV and Jerusalem Bibles. Users of other editions should cross check numbering.)

The selections from Epictetus for October 16 are:
Discourses I 29;II 1,2,4,5,8,9,10,11,16,18,22,26;
III 5,12,13,15,18; IV 2, and Handbook 1-27.

The selections from Plotinus for November 16 are (in the The Essential Plotinus, O'Brien):
The Descent of the Soul (pp. 62-71), The Good and the One (pp. 73-89),
The Three Primal Hypostases (pp. 91-105). Contemplation (pp. 163-175).

JUNIOR

The selections from Pascal's Pensees (Penguin Edition) to be read for the seminars on September 7 and 11 are listed below. Please note that in the list of readings below, pensees from the non-classified papers have sometimes been added to chapters of the classified papers to which they seem to be clearly related.

September 7

Chapter II 13, 21, 25, 30, 36, 44, 47, 413, 627, 628, 688, 697, 806, 978
Chapter III 54-56, 58, 60, 65, 71, 72, 75
Chapter IV 78, 79, 622, 641, 771
Chapter V 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 89-93, 95, 97, 98, 101-103, 577, 665, 711, 828
Chapter VI 106-108, 111-116, 118
Chapter VII 119, 121, 122, 124-128, 131, 398, 401, 410
Chapter VIII 132-134, 136, 138, 139, 414
Chapter IX 140, 143, 145, 407
Chapter X 148, 152, 198-201

September 11

Chapter VI 110
Chapter XI 149
Chapter XII 151, 157, 160-162, 165, 166, 418, 427, 428, 434, 442, 444
Chapter XIII 170, 173-175, 182-185, 187, 188
Chapter XIV 189, 190, 192, 446, 449
Chapter XV 194, 511, 512
Chapter XV (bis) 416, 417, 431, 471
Chapter XVI 205, 208, 210, 214-216, 219, 220
Chapter XVIII 228, 232, 234, 239, 241, 242
Chapter XIX 255, 265
Chapter XXIII 298, 300, 301, 308, 309, 423, 424
Chapter XXIV 332,335
Chapter XXVI 351-354, 357, 358, 360, 364, 372, 373, 808, 821
Chapter XXVII 378, 380, 381, 835, 846, 913 (Memorial)

The assignment for October 19 is as follows:

Leibniz, Philosophical Essays (R. Ariew and D. Garber)
Part I: No. 17, "New System of Nature" (pp. 138-145);
Nos. 20-21, "On the Ultimate Origination of Things," "On Nature Itself" (pp. 149-167).

The assignment for October 23 from Philosophical Essays is as follows: Part I: No. 7, “Primary Truths” (pp. 30-34); Part II E: No. 4, “Letter to Clarke: Third Paper” [through paragraph 8] (pp. 324-326). (Don't forget that the assignment includes also: Principles of Nature and Grace and Monadology.)

SENIOR

The reading in Marx's Capital for the seminars on October 2 and 5 are as follows (the Bookstore carries the International Publishers and Vintage editions):

October 2    
International Publishers   Vintage
2-page photocopy from Contributions to the
Critique of Political Economy Capital, Vol. I, Author's Preface to 1st and
Postface to 2nd German ed.		 18-29   89-103
Part I
Chapter I, Chapter II, 1st 4 paragraphs
Chapter III, Section 2a
43-90 (top)
106-115  
125-180 (mid)
198-209
October 5    
Capital, Vol. I    
Part II
Chapter IV,V,VII
145-172 
247-280
Part III
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII, 1st 8 paragraphs
Chapter IX, Section 1
173-192
193-195 (bot)
204-209 (mid)
(omit 210-212)  
283-306
307-310 (top)
320-325
(omit 326-329)
Chapter X, Section 1 222-225  340-344 (mid)
Capital, Vol. III (photocopy in Bookstore) 247-249
283
292-301		  

SECOND SEMESTER READING LIST 2005-2006

DATE FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR
Jan. 9 Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Inferno
I-XVII		 George Eliot:
Middlemarch		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 12 Sophocles:
Antigone		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Inferno
XVIII-XXXIV		 George Eliot:
Middlemarch		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 16 Plato:
Parmenides,
beginning-148D,166C		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
I-XVIII		 Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 19 Plato:
Theaetetus,
beginning-186		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
XIX-XXXIII		 Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 23 Plato:
Theaetetus,
187-end		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Paradiso
I-XVII		 Hume:
Treatise of Human Nature
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 26 Plato:
Sophist,
beginning to 242 B		 Dante:
Divine Comedy, Paradiso
XVIII-XXXIII		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Jan. 30 Plato:
Sophist,
242 C to end		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part,
Questions 90-94		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Feb. 2 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics
(selections)*		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part,
Questions 95-97		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Essay Writing Period
Feb. 6 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics,
III(1109b27-1119b19)IV 2-3(1122a19-1125a35)V 1-7 (1129a1-1135a14)		 Thomas Aquinas:
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part,
Questions 100, (arts. 1-3,9,10,12), Questions 106,108,109		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:
Use and Disadvantage of History for Life
Feb. 9 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics,
VI,VII 		Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Prologue (through Knight and Squire); Knight's Tale		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Preface, Books 1,2,3
Feb. 13 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics
VIII, IX(1155al-1172a15)		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Prologue (to end); Miller's Prologue and Tale; Reeve's Prologue and Tale		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Preface, Books 4,5,6
Feb. 16 Aristotle:
Nicomachean Ethics
X (1172a16-1181b24)		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Nun's Priest's Tale and Epilogue; Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Books 7,8,9; Aftersong
Feb. 20 Aristotle:
Politics
I (1252a1-1260b25) III 1-5(1274b30-1278b5)		 Chaucer:
Canterbury Tales,
Clerk's Prologue and Tale; Franklin's Prologue and Tale		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Wagner:
Tristan and Isolde
Feb. 23 Aristotle:
Politics
III 6-12(1278b6-1288b6) IV 1(1288b10-1289a25) V 1-2(1301a19-1302b4) VII 1-7,13 (1323a14-1328a21, and 1331b23-1332b10)		 Shakespeare:
As You Like It		 Mozart:
Don Giovanni		 Conrad:
Heart of Darkness
SPRING VACATION
Mar. 13 Sophocles:
Philoctetes		 Rabelais:
Gargantua, Book I		 Jane Austen:
Pride and Prejudice		 Dostoevski
The Brothers Karamazov
Mar. 16 Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus		 Montaigne:
Essays
(selections)*		 Locke:
Second Treatise of Government
Chapters I-IX		 Dostoevski
The Brothers Karamazov
Mar. 20 Plato:
Timaeus
beginning-57		 Montaigne:
Essays
(selections)*		 Locke:
Second Treatise of Government
Chapters X-XIX		 William James:
Psychology, A Briefer Course
(selections)*
Mar. 23 Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things
I-III		 Shakespeare:
Richard II		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Part I, Letter, Prefaces, (including the question that precedes Part I, as well as the author's notes)		 William James:
Psychology, A Briefer Course
(selections)*
Mar. 27 Lucretius:
On the Nature of Things
IV-VI		 Shakespeare:
Henry IV
Part I		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Part II		 The Federalist,
78, 81 (1st 9 paragraphs); Supreme Court Opinions (selections) Constitution, Articles III and VI
Mar. 30 Aristophanes: Birds Machiavelli:
The Prince		 Rousseau:
The Social Contract
I,Chapters 1-3,5-9; II,Chapters 1-7,11; III,Chapters 1-5,9,11-12,14-18; IV, Chapters 7-8		 Tocqueville:Democracy in America
(selections)*
Apr. 3 Euripides:
Hippolytus		 Machiavelli:
Discourses on Livy
(selections)*		 Moliere:
The Misanthrope		 Tocqueville:Democracy in America
(selections)*
Apr. 6 Aristotle:
Physics
I(A) 1(184a10-184b16) II(B) (192b8-200b11)		 Shakespeare:
Othello		 Kant:
Critique of Pure Reason
(selections)*		 Dred Scott Decision (available in Bookstore); Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*
Apr. 10 Aristotle:
Physics
III(Γ)1-3(200b12-202b19)IV(Δ)10-14(217b30-224a16)		 Shakespeare:
Hamlet		 Kant:
Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals;
Section I (omit Kant's Preface), II(through the 3rd formulation, i.e. up to the end of marginal 430-which is the middle of page 98 in Harper, or bottom of page 37 in Hackett)

Letter (photocopy)"On a Supposed Right to Lie for Philanthropic Reasons"		 Lincoln: selected speeches*; Frederick Douglass: selected speeches*
Apr. 13 Aristotle:
Physics
IV(Δ)1-2(208a28-210a13)4-5(210b33-213a12) 8(214b12-216b21) III(Γ) 4-6(202b30-207a32)		 Luther:
The Freedom of a Christian
(omitting the "Letter to the Pope")		 Kant:
Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals;
remainder Section II,III		 Booker T. Washington: (photocopy of speeches in Bookstore); W. E. B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk (selections)*
Apr. 17 Aristotle:
Physics
VIII (Θ) 1(250b11-252b6) 4-7(2254b7-261b26) 9-10(265a13-267b26)		 J.S. Bach:
St. Matthew Passion		 Swift:
Gulliver's Travels
"Advertisement";
"Letter from Gulliver";
"Publisher to Reader";
I, II		 Faulkner: The Bear
(version containing all 5 parts)
Apr. 20 Aristotle:
Metaphysics
I(Α)1-7(980a21-988b22) II (α) (993a30-995a20)		 Bacon:
Novum Organum
Book I, Preface and Aphorisms 1-92 (LLA Edition, pp.31-91; Open Court Edition, pp.37-103)		 Swift:
Gulliver's Travels
III,IV		 Flannery O'Connor:
"Parker's Back"
Apr. 24 Aristotle:
Metaphysics
IV(Γ)1-4(1003a21-1009a5)
VII(Ζ)1-3(1028a10-1029b12),17(1041a6-b33)		 Bacon:
Novum Organum
Book I, Aphorisms 93-130; Book II,Aphorisms 1-20 (LLA Edition, pp.91-162; Open Court Edition, pp.104-180)		 Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations
(selections)*		 Freud:
The Interpretation of Dreams
(selections)*
Apr. 27 Aristotle:
Metaphysics
IX(Θ)6(1048a25-b36)
8(1049b4-1051a3)
XII(Λ) 1(1069a18-b7)
6-10(1071b3-1076a4)		 Descartes:
Discourse on Method
I-IV		 Adam Smith:
Wealth of Nations
(selections)*		 Freud:
The Interpretation of Dreams (selections)*
Freud:
Psychoanalysis
(photocopy of article in Bookstore)
May 1 Euripides:
The Bacchae		 Descartes:
Discourse on Method
V-VI		 Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Madison, Hamilton, Jay:The Federalist
(selections)*		 Freud:
Three Case Histories,
"Notes on a Case of Obsessional Neurosis," both parts "I. Extracts from the Case History" and "II. Theoretical"
May 4 Aristotle:
Poetics
(1447a7-1462b18)		 Shakespeare:
Macbeth		 Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist
(selections)*
and U.S. Constitution		 Wittgenstein:
Philosophical Investigations
Preface and sections 1-134
May 8 Plato:
Phaedrus
Beginning-257		 Shakespeare:
King Lear*		 Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist
(selections)*		 Heidegger:
What is Philosophy?
May 11 Plato:
Phaedrus
257-end		 Shakespeare:
The Tempest		 Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn Plato:
Phaedrus

END OF SECOND SEMESTER,

APPENDIX TO SCHEDULE OF SEMINAR READINGS -
SECOND SEMESTER 2005-2006


FRESHMAN

February 2 - All Aristotle assignments are listed both by book and chapter divisions and by marginal numbers. The marginal line numbers are the same in all editions when they are used. The book divisions are fairly standard, but some editions vary the chapters. When in doubt, follow the marginal line numbers, which should serve as a reliable guide. For February 2 the assignment is Nicomachean Ethics I-II (1094a1-1109b26).

SOPHOMORE

The assignments in Montaigne are as follows:
March 16: To the Reader; I, 31 (Of Cannibals); II, 11 (Of Cruelty); III, 2 (Of Repentance)

March 20: III, 13 (Of Experience)

The assignment for April 3 in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy is as follows:

May 8: Shakespeare - Avoid newer editions that print two separate versions of King Lear.

JUNIOR

The reading assignments for Hume's Treatise of Human Nature are as follows:

January 16 Introduction; Book I, Part I; Part II, section 6; Part III, sections 1-8
January 19 Book I, Part III, section 14 and 15; Part IV, sections 2, 6-7; Appendix, pp. 633-636 (paragraphs 10-21) (old Oxford edition, also Prometheus) or pp. 398 bottom-401 (Oxford new edition of 2004) or 675 middle-678 middle (Penguin)
January 23 Book II, Part 3, section iii, entire section, (which occupies pp. 413-418 in old Oxford, Prometheus, pp. 265-268 in Oxford new ed. of 2004); Book III, Part I; Part II, sections 1, 2, 5; Part III, sections 1, 3, 5, 6; or Book II, Part 3, all of section iii, pp. 265-268 (new Oxford new edition of 2004)

The reading assignments for the seminars on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason are as follows:
A=First Addition, 1781; B=Second edition, 1787

Date/Reading Assignment
January 26
Preface and Introduction		 Bvii-B30
(omitting the note on Bx1-Bxli)
January 30
Transcendental Aesthetic		 B33-B73(=A19 sq.)
February 2
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
I. Logic in General		 B74-B76 beginning (=A50-A52 beginning)
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
II. Transcendental Logic		 B79-B82 beginning (=A55-A57)
Introduction to Transcendental Logic
Transcendetal Analytic		 B89-B91(=A64-A66)
Analytic of Concepts:
Chapter I through Table of Categories		 B91-B107(=A66-A82 beginning)
Analytic of Concepts:
Chapter II, Section I		 B116-B129(=A84-A95 beginning)
February 6
Transcendental Deduction in A (complete)		 A95-A130
February 9
Analytic of Principles:
Introduction,
Chapter I (Schematism) & Chapter II,
Sections 1,2, & 3		 B169-B202(=A130-A162)
February 13
Analogies of Experience:
First Analogy and Second Analogy		 B218-B244 beginning(=A176-A199 beginning)
Refutation of Idealism B274-B279 beginning
February 16
Footnote from Second Preface		 Bx1-Bxli
Ground of the Distinction ... Phenomena and Noumena B294-B306(=A235-248)(omitting the long note on A248 end-A253)
Transcendental Dialectic:
Introduction and Book I		 B349-B396(=A293-A338)
February 20
Transcendental Dialectic:
Book II, Chapter II, section 1		 B432-B438(=A405-A411)
Antithetic of Pure Reason B448-B453(=A420-A425)
Statements of the Four Antinomies B454(=A426)
B462(=A434)
B472(=A444)
B480(=A452)
Third antinomy B472-B479(=A444-A451)
Antinomy of Pure Reason,
section 3		 B490-B504 beginning(=A462-A476 beginning)
section 7 B530-B535(=A502-A507)
April 6
Solution of the Cosmological Idea of Totality In the Derivation of Cosmical Events from their Causes		 B560-586 (=A532-558)
Canon of Pure Reason, Sections 1 & 2 B823-847 (=A795-819)

The reading assignments for the seminars on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations are as follows (page numbers are from the Liberty Press edition):

April 24 Book I, Chapters I-X with following omissions:
(a)Chapter V - omit paragraph 20 to end (omit pp. 55-64): Stop just before the paragraph beginning "Though at distant ..."
(b)Chapter X, part I - omit paragraph 27 to end of Part I (pp. 125-135): Stop just before the paragraph beginning "That the chance ..."
(c) Chapter X, Part II - omit paragraph 33-59 (pp. 146-157): Stop just before the paragraph beginning "Secondly ..." and start with paragraph beginning "I shall conclude ..."
April 27 Book I, Chapter XI - Introduction and Conclusion (omitting tables at end) only (pp. 160-162 and 264-267)
Book II, Chapter I (pp. 279-285)
Book II, Chapter III - omit paragraph 32 to end (pp. 343-349): Stop just before paragraph beginning "The annual produce ..."
Book III, Chapter I (pp. 376-380)
Book III, Chapter IV - omit paragraphs 20-end (pp. 424-427): Stop just before paragraph beginning "England ..."
Book IV, Chapter II - read only paragraphs 1-11 and paragraphs 43-45 (pp. 452-457 and pp. 471-472): Stop just before paragraph beginning "What is prudence ..." and start with paragraph beginning "To expect ..."
Book IV, Chapter IX - read only paragraphs 48-52 (pp. 686-688): Start with paragraph beginning "The greatest ..."
Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Art. 2, paragraphs 46-end," 'end' means the end of Article 2.

The reading assignments in The Federalist are as follows:

May 1 1, 2, 6, 9-11, 12 (first three paragraphs), 14, together with the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation
May 4 15-17, 23, 31, 37-39, together with the Constitution of the United States
May 8 47-51, 57, 62-63, 68, 69, 76, 78

SENIOR

The assignment from James's Psychology: A Briefer Course (i.e. not the two volume Psychology) is:

March 20 Chapters I (Introduction), X (Habit), XI (The Stream of Consciousness), XII (The Self)(omitting pp. 205-216) Notre Dame edition: Introductory, Chapter 1 (Habit), Chapter 2 (The Stream of Consciousness), Chapter 3 (The Self), (omitting pp. 72-83).
March 23 Chapters XXIV (Emotion), Chapter XXVI or 17 (Will), Epilogue (Notre Dame edition: Chapter 15 (Emotion), 17 (Will), Epilogue)

The reading assignment for March 27 is:

  • The Federalist 78, first nine paragraphs of 81; and Supreme Court Opinion: Marbury v. Madison -- with State Court Opinion: Eakin v. Raub
  • U.S. Constitution, Articles III and VI

    • The reading assignments in Tocqueville are as follows in the 2-volume Vintage paperback (Bradley), Harper Perennial (George Lawrence) and University of Chicago Press (Mansfield):

    March 30

    (Vintage) Volume I: Author's Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 68 bottom-85 bottom third), chapter 6 (to 103 middle), chapters 15-16, chapter 17 (beginning at 326 top), chapter 18 (from 421 bottom-429 top third; and 434, final 2 paragraphs)
    (Harper Perennial) Volume I: Author's Introduction; Pt. I, chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting 70 bottom-86), chapter 6 (to 104 top); Pt. II, chapter 7-8, chapter 9 (beginning at 311 bottom), chapter 10 (400-407 and 412 middle-413)
    (University of Chicago Press) Part I: Author’s Introduction; chapter 3, chapter 5 (omitting page 65 bottom-82 top), chapter 6 (to page 98 top); Part II, chapters 7-8, chapter 9 (beginning at page 298 bottom), chapter 10 (pages 384-390; and 395 [beginning “There are two great peoples”]-396)

    April 3

    (Vintage) Volume II: Book I, chapters 1-3, 5, Book II, chapters 1-15, Book IV, chapters 6-8
    (Harper Perennial) Volume II: Part I, chapters 1-3, 5; Part II, chapters 1-15, Part IV; chapters 6-8
    (University of
    Chicago Press)    		 Volume II: Part I, chapters 1-3, 5; Part II, chapters 1-15; Part IV, chapters 6-8

    The Lincoln assignments for April 6 and April 10 are taken from the Dover Thrift Edition and photocopy supplements.

    April 6

    April 10

    The readings for April 13 are:

    The assignments from Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (Avon edition) are as follows:

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