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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 Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library Early Modern Texts Naxos Spoken Word Library Open Library (Internet Archive) Project Gutenberg

2024 Spring Semester Reading List

Date Reading Online Resources
January 8 George Eliot: Middlemarch
January 11 George Eliot: Middlemarch  (see January 8 links)
January 15 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)
January 18 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)  (see January 15 links)
January 22 Hume: Treatise of Human Nature (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)  (see January 15 links)
January 25 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)
January 29 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 1 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 5 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 8 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 12 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 15 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 19 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 22 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see January 25 links)
February 26

Locke: Second Treatise of Government

Chapters I–IX

Complete Two Treatises of Government Texts

Second Treatise of Government-Only Texts

February 29

Locke: Second Treatise of Government

Chapters X–XIX

(see February 26 links)
March 18 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
March 21

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)

March 25

Rousseau: Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

Part II

(see March 21 links)

March 28

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, 7-8

April 1 Molière: The Misanthrope
April 4 Mozart: Don Giovanni

Recordings

April 8

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—which is in the middle of page 98 in Harper, bottom of page 37 in Hackett)

April 11

Kant: Foundations of Metaphysics of Morals

Remainder of Section II;

Section III

(see April 8 links)
April 15

Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

“Advertisement”;

“Letter from Gulliver”;

“Publisher to Reader”;

I-II

April 18

Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

III-IV

(see April 15 links)
April 22 Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)
April 25 Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see April 22 links)
April 29

Declaration of Independence;

Articles of Confederation;

U.S. Constitution (without Amendments);

Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

U.S. Constitution (without Amendments)

The Federalist

May 2

Amendments to the U. S. Constitution;

Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix)

U.S. Constitution with Complete Amendments

Complete Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Amendments 1-10 (Bill of Rights)

Amendments 11-27

May 6 Madison, Hamilton, Jay: The Federalist (selections: see Spring Semester Appendix) (see May 2 links)
May 9 Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn