Humanities Classics: Primary Readings

1)      Plato,  Selections from the Republic

2)      Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

3)      Mencius, The Book of Mencius.

4)      Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Happy Life.

5)      Augustine, The Free Choice of the Will.

6)      Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selections)

7)      Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy.

8)      David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.                                               

9)      Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.

10)  Freidrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human.

11)  Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis.

12)  Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism.

13)  Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity.

14)  B. F. Skinner, About Behaviorism.

15)  Edward O. Wilson, On Human Nature

 

v     This is a tentative list.  As we progress through the term, other primary works may be substituted or added to our course readings.  You must use one or more primary texts for your second argument paper.