CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION READING LIST 2011-2012
REQUIRED CC READINGS--CC1101 FALL 2011
Plato, Republic (complete)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics
Hebrew Bible: Exodus (entire), Isaiah (Chpts 1-39), Ecclesiastes (entire)
Hellenistic and Roman Thought: Epicurus (selections on CC Web) and Epictetus, Handbook
The New Testament: Matthew (entire), Romans (entire), Galatians (entire)
Augustine, City of God
The Qur'an
Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas, Selected Writings (pp. 3-7, 14-29, 30-38, 46-53); Al-Ghazali, The Rescuer
from Error (selection on CC Web)
Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses
The Protestant Reformation: selections from the Hillerbrand Anthology
Descartes, Meditations, and Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess ( CC Web)
New World: Vitoria, On The American Indians; de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies and Thirty
Very Juridical Propositions; de Sepulveda, Democrates Alter; Or, On the Just Causes for War Against the
Indians (on CC Web)
Hobbes, Leviathan
Locke, Second Treatise and Letter on Toleration
Texts:
Optional Readings:
Plato, Republic (Hackett)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford University Press)
Descartes, Discourse on Method (Hackett)
Aristotle, Politics (Hackett)
The Holy Bible (Revised Standard Edition)
Epictetus, Handbook (Hackett)
Augustine, City of God (Penguin)
The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an (Amana)
Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett), Machiavelli, The Discourses (Penguin)
Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett)
The Protestant Reformation (Harper & Row)
Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford)
Locke, Second Treatise (Hackett) and Letter on Toleration (Hackett)
REQUIRED CC READINGS—CC1102 SPRING 2012
Assignment over the break, to be discussed in first class of spring semester: Kant, "What is
Enlightenment?" (CC Web)
Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality and Social Contract
Smith, Wealth of Nations
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Principles of Morals OR Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
American Revolution: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Federalist Papers (CC Web)
French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, Robespierre, "On the Moral and
Political Principles of Domestic Policy?; Sieyès, "What is the Third Estate?" (CC Web)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History
Mill, On Liberty
Marx, selections from the Marx-Engels Reader
Darwin, selections from Origin of Species and Descent of Man
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis OR Civilization and its Discontents
Woolf, Three Guineas
TEXTS:
Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings (Hackett)
Smith, Wealth of Nations (Modern Library)
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hackett)
Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Hackett)
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford)
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover)
Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Penguin)
Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (Hackett)
Mill, On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford)
Marx-Engels Reader (Norton)
Darwin, On the Origin of Species and Descent of Man (Broadview)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo (Vintage)
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Dover)
Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Norton),
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (Norton)
Woolf, Three Guineas (Harcourt)
OPTIONAL TEXTS:
Mill, Utilitarianism (Oxford)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Vintage)
Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago)
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)
Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage)
MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of State (Harvard)
Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Harvard)
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago)
Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (MIT)
Voltaire, Candide (Penguin)