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Most '''Core Curriculum texts''' are available free of charge on the interweb. On this page, you'll find links to online versions of the major texts discussed in the two main [[Core Curriculum]] classes, [[Literature Humanities]] and [[Contemporary Civilization]].  
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Most '''Core Curriculum texts''' are available free of charge on the interweb. See the [[Literature Humanities]] and [[Contemporary Civilization]] pages for links to online versions.
  
[[Free Culture at Columbia]], a student group, has compiled the core texts and distributed the package on USB drives. The package can be found [http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~njb2114/core-texts_rev0.zip here].
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[[Free Culture at Columbia]], a defunct student group, previously made a compilation of the texts and distributed this on USB drives and online.
 
 
== Literature Humanities ==
 
 
 
=== First semester ===
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html The Iliad] by Homer
 
*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/demeter.htm Hymn to Demeter] by Homer
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html The Odyssey] by Homer
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html The History] by Herodotus
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html The History of the Peloponnesian War] by Thucydides
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html Oedipus Rex] by Sophocles
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/medea.html Medea] by Euripides
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7700 Lysistrata] by Aristophanes
 
*The Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus:
 
:*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html Agamemnon]
 
:*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/choephori.html The Libation Bearers]
 
:*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/choephori.html Eumenidies]
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html The Symposium] by Plato
 
*The Bible:
 
:*[http://ebible.org/asv/Genesis.htm Book of Genesis]
 
:*[http://ebible.org/asv/Job.htm Book of Job]
 
 
 
=== Second semester ===
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html The Aeneid] by Virgil
 
*[http://www.stoa.org/hippo/frame_entry.html The Confessions] by Saint Augustine
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/dante/inferno The Inferno] by Dante Alighieri
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3600 The Essays] by Michel de Montaigne
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/cervantes/don_quixote/ Don Quixote] by Miguel de Cervantes
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/crimeandpunishment/ Crime and Punishment] by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/austen/prideprejudice/ Pride and Prejudice] by Jane Austen
 
 
 
== Contemporary Civilization ==
 
 
 
=== First semester ===
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html The Republic] by Plato
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html Politics] by Aristotle
 
*[http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html Nicomachean Ethics] by Aristotle
 
*[http://ebible.org/asv/Exodus.htm Book of Exodus] in the Bible
 
*[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.toc.html City of God] by Saint Augustine
 
*[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html The Holy Qu'ran]
 
*[http://sidereus.org/library/the-prince.htm The Prince] by Niccolo Machiavelli
 
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10827 The Discourses] by Niccolo Machiavelli
 
*[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html The Leviathan] by Thomas Hobbes
 
*[http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke2/locke2nd-a.html Second Treatise of Government] by John Locke
 
 
 
=== Second semester ===
 
*[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/social-contract-or-principles-/ The Social Contract] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/originofspecies/ The Origin of Species] by Charles Darwin
 
*[http://www.online-literature.com/karl-marx/communist-manifesto/ The Communist Manifesto] by Karl Marx
 
*[http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogytofc.htm On the Genealogy of Morals] by Friedrich Nietzsche
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:23, 30 November 2013

Most Core Curriculum texts are available free of charge on the interweb. See the Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization pages for links to online versions.

Free Culture at Columbia, a defunct student group, previously made a compilation of the texts and distributed this on USB drives and online.