| Date | Reading | Online Resources |
|---|---|---|
| August 21 |
Cervantes: Don Quixote Part One |
Trans. John Ormsby (Project Gutenberg) Read by Roy McMillan; Trans. John Ormsby (Naxos Spoken Word Library) |
| August 25 | Cervantes: Don Quixote (complete) | (see August 22 links) |
| August 28 |
Descartes: Meditations Letter of Dedication; Preface; I-III |
Trans. Elizabeth S. Haldane (Yale University) Trans. John Veitch (Online Library of Liberty–found about 3/5 of the way down the page)
|
| September 1 |
Descartes: Meditations IV-VI |
(see August 29 links) |
| September 4 |
Pascal: Pensées (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix) |
Trans. W. F. Trotter (Project Gutenberg) Internet Archive (French) Read by William Sutherland; Trans. H. F. Stewart (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Peter Wickham; Trans. W. F. Trotter (Naxos Spoken Word Library) |
| September 8 |
Pascal: Pensées (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix) |
(see September 5 links) |
| September 11 |
Milton: Paradise Lost I-III |
Read by Ralph Cosham (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Anton Lesser (Naxos Spoken Word Library) |
| September 15 |
Milton: Paradise Lost IV; V; VI: Argument only; VII: Argument, 1-39; VIII |
(see September 12 links) |
| September 18 |
Milton: Paradise Lost IX-X; XI: to 428; XII: 446-end |
(see September 12 links) |
| September 22 |
Hobbes: Leviathan Frontispiece; Letter of Dedication; Author’s Introduction; Chapters 1-11 |
Read by James Adams (Naxos Spoken Word Library) Read by Peter Wickham (Naxos Spoken Word Library) |
| September 25 |
Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 12-18 |
(see September 23 links) |
| September 29 |
Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 19-21, 24-25; 27; 28 (only the very last paragraph); 29 |
(see September 23 links) |
| October 2 |
Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 30-31; 32 (first four paragraphs); 38 (paragraphs 3–6, 17-24, according to the Hackett numbering); 39; 43; 46-47; A Review and Conclusion (last paragraph) |
(see September 23 links) |
| October 6 |
Spinoza: Ethics Book I: beginning through proposition 29; Marginal pages II/45-II/71 |
Trans. R. H. M. Elwes (Project Gutenberg) |
| October 9 |
Spinoza: Ethics Book I: proposition 30 through end; Appendix; Book II: beginning through proposition 13; Marginal pages II/71-II/97 |
(see October 7 links) |
| October 13 | Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics |
Trans. George R. Montgomery (Internet Archive–hourly borrowing) |
| October 16 |
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber) (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix) |
Trans. Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber (antilogicalism.com) |
| October 20 |
Leibniz: Principles of Nature and Grace; (selections: see Fall Semester Appendix) |
Monadology
Principles of Nature and Grace and Monadology |
| October 23 – December 11 | (preceptorials) |