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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4320 An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] by David Hume | * [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4320 An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals] by David Hume | ||
| + | * [http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/kant_groundwork_metaphysics_morals01.htm Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals] by Immanuel Kant | ||
*[http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/discourse-on-inequality/ Discourse on the Origins of Inequality] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | *[http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/discourse-on-inequality/ Discourse on the Origins of Inequality] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
* [http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/social-contract-or-principles-/ The Social Contract] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | * [http://www.online-literature.com/rousseau/social-contract-or-principles-/ The Social Contract] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ||
Revision as of 12:54, 30 April 2007
This page links to free, online versions of the major texts discussed in the two main Core Curriculum classes, Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization.
Contents
Literature Humanities
First semester
- The Iliad by Homer
- Hymn to Demeter by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The History by Herodotus
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Medea by Euripides
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus:
- The Symposium by Plato
- The Bible:
Second semester
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- The Confessions by Saint Augustine
- The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
- The Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Contemporary Civilization
First semester
- The Republic by Plato
- Politics by Aristotle
- City of God by Saint Augustine
Second semester
- An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
- Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
- Discourse on the Origins of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
