Sequence of Readings

Philosophy & Humanities Seminars I & II:
Ancient Greece & Philosophical Inquiry

Readings for Part 1: Ancient Greece

• Homer, Iliad, Odyssey
• Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days
• Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides, Promethius Bound
• Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
• Euripides, The Bacchae
• Aristophanes, The Clouds
• Herodotus, The Histories
• Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
• Plutarch, Lycurgas, Pericles, Alcibiades, Alexander
• Plato, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
• Xenophon, Memorabilia
• Aristotle, Ethics, Politics, Poetics

Readings for Part 2: Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry

• Golding, Lord of the Flies
• Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov
• Freud, The Future of an Illusion
• Tocqueville, Democracy in America
• Camus, The Stranger
• St. Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
• Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
• Frankl, Mans Search for Meaning
• Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture
• The Venerable John Paul II, Fides et Ratio
• Guardini, The Death of Socrates

Philosophy & Humanities Seminar III:
Greece, Rome, and the Birth of Christianity

• The Presocratics, Fragments
• Aristotle, Physics, Metaphysics, De anima
• Sacred Scripture, I & II Maccabees
• Plutarch, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero, (at Norcia:) Coriolanus, Marcus Brutus, Antony
• Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire
• Cicero, Catilinarian Orations, Philippicae (Norcia)
• Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline
• Caesar,The Conquest of Gaul
• Vergil, Aeneid
• Horace, Odes
• Suetonius, Life of Horace
• Ovid, Metamorphoses
• Seneca, On the Tranquility of Mind
• The Martyrdom of St. Polycarp of Smyrna
• The Martyrdom of Sts. Perpetua & Felicity
• St. Justin Martyr, First Apology
• St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies
• Origen, Commentary on the Song of Songs, On Prayer
• St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation, The Life of Antony
• St. Syncletica,Sayings
• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Procatechesis, Catecheses, Mystagogic Catecheses
• Egeria, Itinerarium
• St. Augustine, Confessions, De doctrina Christiana, City of God, Sermons on the Psalms
• Prudentius, Psychomachia
• Ambrosian Chant
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, The Mystical Theology
• Pope Benedict XVI, Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine
• Blessed John Henry Newman, Church of the Fathers
• R.L. Wilken,The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
• Christopher Dawson,The Formation of Christendom

Philosophy & Humanities Seminar IV:
The Medieval Flowering of Christendom

• St. Benedict, Rule
• St. Gregory, Life of St. Benedict
• Beowulf
• Blessed Hildegard of Bingen, Ordo virtutum
• St. Bonaventure, Life of St. Francis
• Abelard, O quanta qualia
• Blessed Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae
• Pieper, Guide to Thomas Aquinas
• Selected chansons from the Troubadours
• Dante, La Vita Nuova, La Divina Commedia
• Hollander, Dante: A Life in Works, Dante: A Party of One
• Dor, Illustrations for the Divine Comedy
• Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame, Rose liz
• The Limbourg brothers, Les Trs Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
• Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

Rome and Norcia

• Cicero, The Second Philippic Against Antony
• Plutarch, Brutus, Mark Antony, Coriolanus
• St. Benedict, Rule
• St. Gregory, Life of St. Benedict
• St. Bonaventure, Life of St. Francis
• Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
• Guardini, The Death of Socrates
• Pieper, Leisure the Basis of Culture, Hope and History
• Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum pontificum
• The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
• Monastic Diurnal and The Liturgy of the Hours

Philosophy & Humanities Seminar V:
Renaissance, Reformation, Catholic Renewal, & the Early Modern Stage

• Petrarch, Letter to Posterity, The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, Canzoniere
• Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
• Dawson, The Dividing of Christendom
• St. Thomas More, Utopia
• Columbus, The Journal of Christopher Columbus
• Erasmus, The Freedom of the Will
• Luther, The Bondage of the Will
• Calvin, Institutes
• St. John Fisher, A Spiritual Consolation
• St. Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation
• Southwell, An Epistle of Comfort
• St. Ignatius of Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises
• St. Teresa of Avila, Vida
• Thomas Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
• Decrees from the Council of Trent
• Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass
• Montaigne, That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die
• Machiavelli, The Prince
• Shakespeare, Selected sonnets, Hamlet, The Tempest, Henry V, King Lear, Twelfth Night,
• The Winters Tale (read in English 202), (the following are read in the Rome-Norcia Program:) Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, & Antony and Cleopatra
• Donne, Selected Poems
• Caldern, Life Is a Dream
• Corneille, Le Cid

Philosophy & Humanities Seminar VI:
The Dialectics of Enlightenment

• Kant, What is Enlightenment?
• Bartolem de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies
• Selected Slave Narratives
• Bradstreet, Selected Poems
• Hobbes, Leviathan
• Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
• Locke, Second Treatise of Government
• Milton, When I consider how my light is spent, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost
• Pascal, Penses
• Molire, The Misanthrope
• Racine, Iphigenia
• Swift, Satirical Works
• Leibniz, Essays on Theodicy
• Voltaire, Candide
• dAlembert, Preliminary Discourse
• Johnson, Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language, Preface to Shakespeare
• Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, The Social Contract
• Smith, Wealth of NationsThe Declaration of Independence
• The Articles of Confederation
• Selected Federalist and Antifederalist Papers
• The United States Constitution
• Speeches and Decrees from the French Revolution
• Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Mozart, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute
• Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
• Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals
• Hegel, The Philosophy of History
• Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Philosophy & Humanities Seminars VII & VIII:
Late Modernity and Postmodernity

• Arendt, On Revolution
• Marx, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Theses on Feuerbach
• Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
• The Venerable John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua
• St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
• Documents of the First Vatican Council
• Hopkins, "The Wreck of the Deutschland", "Pied Beauty, Gods Grandeur"
• Whitman, "Song of Myself"
• Dickinson, selected poems
• Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
• Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?"
• Douglass, "What to the slave is the fourth of July?"
• Washington, "Up From Slavery"
• Du Bois, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Talented Tenth: Memorial Address"
• Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil
• Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
• Heidegger, Being and Time
• Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception
• Pound, "Salutation", and "Ballad of the Goodly Fere", "What I Feel About Walt Whitman", "The Tradition", "James Joyce, At Last the Novel Appears", and "Paris Letter, May 1922"
• Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, selections from Ulysses
• Eliot, The Waste Land
• Crane, The Bridge
• Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex
• Wilder, Our Town
• Copland, Suite from Our Town
• O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
• Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
• Lowell, "For the Union Dead"
• Copland & Graham, Appalachian Spring
• Frost, "Dust of Snow", "The Rose Family", "The Line Gang"
• Carter, settings of Dust of Snow, The Rose Family, and The Line Gang
• Belloc, The Servile State
• Chaplin, Modern Times
• Kafka, The Metamorphosis
• Kurtg, Kafka Fragments
• Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Huxley, Brave New World
• Camus, The Rebel
• Arendt, Totalitarianism
• Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will
• Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
• Celan, "Todesfuge"
• Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
• Sauvage, Weapons of the Spirit
• Resnais, Night and Fog
• Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
• Heidegger, "The Letter on Humanism"
• Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"
• Benjamin, "The Concept of History"
• Klee, Angelus novus
• Adorno, Negative Dialectics
• Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?"
• Ratzinger & Habermas, Dialectics of Secularization
• MacIntyre, After Virtue
• King, Letter from the Birmingham Jail
• Vaclav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless"
• The Documents of the Second Vatican Council
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Fides et ratio
• Pope Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est, Spe salvi

Sacred Scripture & The Economy of Salvation

• Sacred Scripture
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Dei verbum

Sacred Scripture, the Sacraments, & Prayer

• Sacred Scripture
• St. Ambrose, On the Mysteries
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum

The Profession of Faith

• Sacred Scripture
• St. Augustine, A Sermon to Catechumens on the Creed, Of Faith and the Creed
• The Athanasian Creed (Quicumque vult)
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• de Lubac, Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed
• Cantalamessa, Obedience: The Authority of the Word

Christian Anthropology & The Moral Life

• Sacred Scripture
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Veritatis splendor

Divine Revelation & Christology

• Sacred Scripture
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Redemptor hominis, Dives in misericordia
• Pope Benedict the XVI, Jesus of Nazareth
• Guardini, The Lord

Ecclesiology & Liturgical Theology

• Sacred Scripture
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Code of Canon Law
• The Liturgy of the Hours: Office of Corpus Christi
• General Instruction on the Roman Missal
• The Venerable Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, Mediator Dei
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Lumen gentium, Sacrosanctam concilium
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Ecclesia de eucharistia
• Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy
• Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum pontificum (Norcia)
• The Missal of John XXIII (The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite) (Norcia)

Domestica ecclesia: Theology of Marriage and Family

• Sacred Scripture
• The Catechism of the Catholic Church
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et Spes
• Pope Pius XI, Casti connubii
• Pope Paul VI, Humanae vitae
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Familiaris consortio, Gratissimam sane, Evangelium vitae

Catholic Social Teaching and Canon Law

• Sacred Scripture
• Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Gaudium et spes
• Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Centesimus annus, Catechesi tradendae, Laborem exercens
• The Code of Canon Law
• Compendium of Catholic Social Teaching

Quadrivium: Music & Singing I & II

• Sacred Scripture
• Missal Gregorin
• Jubilate Deo
• Homer, The Odyssey
• Hesiod, Theogony, Works and Days
• Plato, Republic, Timaeus, Phaedo
• Aristotle, Politics
• St. Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, Paedagogus
• St. Basil the Great, Homily on Psalm I
• St. Augustine, Confessions
• Pope St. Pius X, Tra le Sollecitudini
• The Venerable Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, De musica sacra et sacra liturgia
• The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum concilium
• Sacred Congregation of Rites, Musicam sacram
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Chirograph on Sacred Music
  Ratzinger, Selected writings on sacred music and the liturgy
• USCCB, Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship
• Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Worship
• Kerman & Tomlinson, Listen
• Benward & Saker, Music in Theory and Practice

Principles of Seeing and Drawing I & II

• Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception
• Feynman, Color Vision, Mechanisms of Seeing
• Held, Plasticity in Sensory-Motor Systems

Masterpieces of the Visual Arts I &II

• The Venerable John Paul II, Letter to Artists
• Chesteron, St. Francis of Assisi, The Everlasting Man
• Janson, A History of Art
• Pieper, Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
• Sacks, To See and Not See
• Shakespeare, Selected Sonnets
• Sontag, On Photography
• Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
• OBrien, The Phantom Empire
• Keaton, The General
• Dreyer, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
• Chaplin, City Lights
• De Sica, The Bicycle Thief
• Welles, Citizen Kane
• Wilder, Sunset Boulevard
• von Donnersmarck, Das Leben der Anderen

Trivium: Logic

• Aristotle, Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations
• Porphyry, Isagoge

Quadrivium: Euclidean Geometry

• Euclid, Elements

Quadrivium:Astronomy

• Ptolemy, Almagest
• Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
• Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
• Galileo, Starry Messenger
• Descartes, Discourse on Method
• Bacon, The New Organon

Quadrivium: Physics

• Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
• Newton, Principia, Selected Letters
• Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
• Einstein, Relativity
• Heisenberg, The History of Quantum Theory from Physics and Philosophy
• Selected papers from The Scientific American

Biology

• Aristotle, History of Animals, On Generation and Corruption, Parts of Animals, De anima
• Margulis, Five Kingdoms
• St. Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram
• Darwin, Origin of Species
• Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
• Gould, The Pandas Thumb
• Lack, Darwins Finches
• Eiseley, The Immense Journey
• Augros & Stanciu, The New Biology
• Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridization
• Watson, The Double Helix
• Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas
• Rock, Perception
• McCulloch, Embodiments of Mind
• Tinbergen, The Shell Menace
• Lorenz, The Foundations of Ethology, King Solomon's Ring
• Fabre, The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre
• Frisch, Dialects in the Language of the Bees
• Frisch & Lindauer, The Language and Orientation of the Honey Bee
• Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind
• Other selected articles from scientific journals

Trivium: Grammar and English Composition I & II

• Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
• Weaver, Rhetoric and Composition
• Plato, Phaedrus, Ion, Republic
• Aristotle, Politics, Poetics
• St. Thomas Aquinas, On the Use of Metaphor in Scripture (ST, I^a, q. 3, articles 9 & 10)
• Hugo, This Will Kill That, from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Keller, The Story of My Life
• Lewis, The Abolition of Man
• Orwell, Animal Farm, Politics and the English Language
• McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
• Schlesinger, Politics and the American Language
• Ong, Orality and Literacy
• Carroll, Why Newspapers Matter

Trivium: Rhetoric & Persuasive Writing

• Aristotle, Rhetoric
• Strunk & White, The Elements of Style
• Weaver, Rhetoric and Composition
• Paradigms of Persuasive Writing/Oratory:
• Pericles, Funeral Oration
• St. Thomas Aquinas, selections from the Summa Theologiae
• Shakespeare, Antonys Oration from Julius Caesar
• Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
• Jefferson, et. al, Declaration of Independence
• Madison, Federalist 10
• Swift, A Modest Proposal
• Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln/Douglas, selections from the Lincoln/Douglas debates
• Kennedy, Inaugural Address
• King, I Have a Dream
• Obama, Inaugural Address
• Pollan, An Animals Place

Longer Compositional Forms

• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 89, a. 6
• Lejeune, Tom Thumb (on the personhood of the unborn child)
• Guardini, Origins and Ancestry from The Lord
• Shakespeare, The Winters Tale
• St. Augustine, Confessions
• Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Douglas, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
• Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
• Chesterton, The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
• Day, The Generations Before from The Long Loneliness
• Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth
• Lewis, Surprised by Joy, A Grief Observed
• Sacks, Housecalls from Uncle Tungsten
• Darwin, Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character
• Thurber, Doc Marlowe from Let Your Mind Alone
• Conroy, The Coldness of Public Places from Stop Time
• Churchill, Early Schooling from A Roving Commission
• St. Therese of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
• Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Truth in Fiction

• Plato, Ion, Republic
• Aristotle, Poetics
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Chesterton, The Ethics of Elfland from Orthodoxy
• Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus: A Tale of the Sea
• Dickens, I am Born from David Copperfield
• Melville, Billy Budd
• Forster, Aspects of the Novel, Howards End
• Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• James, The Art of Fiction
• OConnor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Mystery and Manners
• Tolkein, The Monsters and the Critics
• Carver, Where Im Calling From
• The Venerable Pope John Paul II, Redemptor hominis

Comparative Non-Western Cultures

• Nakamura, Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan
• Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle
• The Bhagavad Gita
• The Dhammapada
• The Upanishads
• Befu, Japan: An Anthropological Introduction
• Chuang Tzu, The Inner Chapters
• Confucius, Analects
• Hsu, Americans and Chinese
• Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
• Rowley, Principles of Chinese Painting
• Fenollosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
• Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture
• The Quran