We've recieved our official reading list for the Liberal Studies program. It's daunting, but at least I've had the fortune of having read a few texts. A very few.
I've read Genesis, King Lear, Lysistrata, and Gulliver's Travels. I've read a bit of Euripides,
Plato, Hume, Moliere, Bacon, and Doctor Faustus, which is different than Goethe's Faust, but should follow the same lines.
I'm excited to read the Bhagavad Gita, The Symposium, and Mary Wollstonecraft's work.
There are a lot of texts to cover, but most of them are relatively short. We'll be having a "intro" session in July... just to meet everyone and get our feet wet. The first book up to bat is Phaedrus... Allons-y!
Here's the list:
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Genesis
- Plato, The Symposium
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Sappho, Poems and Fragments
- Euripides, Medea
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Sophocles, Antigone
- Jean Racine, Phèdre
- Lucretius, The Nature of Things
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditation
- Mencius
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno (vol. 1)
- Rumi, Love Is A Stranger
- William Shakespeare, King Lear
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
- Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond
- Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- René Descartes, A Discourse on the Method
- Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
- Molière, The Misanthrope
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Letter Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
- Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Johann Goethe, Faust, Part 1
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