Reading List ST John's College
Reading List ST John's College
Reading List ST John's College
Timaeus, Phaedrus ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals EUCLID: Elements LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thompson, Mendeleyev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust
SOPHOMORE YEAR
HEBREW BIBLE THE BIBLE: New Testament ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories APOLLONIUS: Conics VIRGIL: Aeneid PLUTARCH: "Caesar," "Cato the Younger," "Antony," "Brutus" EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual TACITUS: Annals PTOLEMY: Almagest PLOTINUS: The Enneads AUGUSTINE: Confessions MAIMONIDES: Guide for the Perplexed ST. ANSELM: Proslogium AQUINAS: Summa Theologica DANTE: Divine Comedy CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses KEPLER: Epitome IV RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli MONTAIGNE: Essays VIETE: Introduction to the Analytical Art BACON: Novum Organum SHAKESPEARE: Richard II, Henry IV, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King
JUNIOR YEAR
CERVANTES: Don Quixote GALILEO: Two New Sciences HOBBES: Leviathan DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind MILTON: Paradise Lost LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes LA FONTAINE: Fables PASCAL: Pensees HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
ELIOT: Middlemarch SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise LOCKE: Second Treatise of Government RACINE: Phaedre NEWTON: Principia Mathematica KEPLER: Epitome IV LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of
Nature and Grace SWIFT: Gulliver's Travels HUME: Treatise of Human Nature ROUSSEAU: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality MOLIERE: Le Misanthrope ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations KANT: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals MOZART: Don Giovanni JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
DEDEKIND: "Essay on the Theory of Numbers" "Articles of Confederation," "Declaration of Independence," "Constitution of the United States of America" HAMILTON, JAY AND MADISON: The Federalist TWAIN: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn WORDSWORTH: The Two Part Prelude of 1799 Essays by: Young, Taylor, Euler, D. Bernoulli, Orsted, Ampere, Faraday, Maxwell
SENIOR YEAR
Supreme Court opinions GOETHE: Faust DARWIN: Origin of Species HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia) LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America LINCOLN: Selected Speeches FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Selected Speeches KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde MARX: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology DOSTOEVSKI: Brothers Karamazov TOLSTOY: War and Peace MELVILLE: Benito Cereno O'CONNOR: Selected Stories WILLIAM JAMES; Psychology, Briefer Course NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil FREUD: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: Selected Writings DUBOIS: The Souls of Black Folk HUSSERL: Crisis of the European Sciences HEIDEGGER: Basic Writings EINSTEIN: Selected papers CONRAD: Heart of Darkness FAULKNER: Go Down Moses FLAUBERT: Un Coeur Simple WOOLF: Mrs. Dalloway Poems by: Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Valery, Rimbaud
Essays by: Faraday, J.J. Thomson, Millikan, Minkowski, Rutherford, Davisson, Schrodinger, Bohr, Maxwell, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Mendel, Boveri, Sutton, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Sussman, Watson & Crick, Jacob & Monod, Hardy
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