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Online Texts for Program Readings: Spring Semester

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program readings.

Online Texts

This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Johnathan Longo, Public Services Librarian, at 410-295-6927 or johnathan.longo@sjc.edu, or Catherine Dixon, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.dixon@sjc.edu.

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2020 Spring Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
February 4 George Eliot: Middlemarch
February 8 George Eliot: Middlemarch
February 11 No seminar—Move-in day
February 15 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
February 18 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
February 22 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
February 25 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 1 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 4 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix

March 8 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 11 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 15 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 18 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 22 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 25 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix
March 29 Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Chapters I–IX
April 1 Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Chapters X–XIX
April 5 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
April 8
Rousseau: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Part I, Letter, Prefaces, (including the question that
precedes Part I, as well as the author’s notes)
April 12 Rousseau: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
Part II
April 15 Rousseau: The Social Contract
I, Chapters 1–3, 5–9
II, Chapters 1–7, 11
III, Chapters 1–5, 9, 11–12, 14–18
IV, Chapters 1, 2, 7–8
April 19 Molière: The Misanthrope
April 22 Mozart: Don Giovanni
April 26

Kant: Foundation of Metaphysics of Morals
Section I (omit Kant’s Preface)
Section II (through the 3rd formulation,
i.e. up to end of marginal number 430—
middle of page 98 in Harper ; 
bottom of page 37 in Hackett)

April 29 Kant: Foundations of Metaphysics of Morals
Remainder of Section II; Section III
May 3 Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
“Advertisement”
“Letter from Gulliver”
“Publisher to Reader”
I, II
May 6
Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
III, IV
May 10 Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
See Spring Semester Appendix
May 13 Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
See Spring Semester Appendix
May 17
  • Declaration of IndependenceArticles of Confederation
  • U.S. Constitution (without amendments)
  • Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections)
  • See Spring Semester Appendix
Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
U.S Constitution 
May 20

U.S. Constitution

The Federalist

May 24 Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections)
See Spring Semester Appendix

May 27 Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn