Dr. Platt's Proposed Curriculum
Thursday, June 2, 2005
First Year
First Quarter
First Week
1) Genesis
2) Hesiod, Theogony
3) Hesiod, Works and Days
Second Week
1) Homer, Iliad 1-4
2) Homer, Iliad 5-8
3) Homer, Iliad 9-12
Third Week
1) Homer, Iliad 13-16
2) Homer, Iliad 17-20
3) Homer, Iliad 21-24
Fourth Week
1) Gilgamesh
2) Thucydides 1
3) Thucydides 2
Fifth Week
1) Thucydides 3-5
2) Thucydides 6-8
3) Job
Sixth Week
1) Aeschylus, Oresteia
2) Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
3) Sophocles, Antigone
Seventh Week
1) Isaiah
2) Aristophanes, Clouds
3) Aristophanes, Frogs
Eighth Week
1) Plato, Apology
2) Plato, Crito
3) Plato, Phædo
Ninth Week
1) Plato, Republic
2) Plato, Republic 2-3
3) Plato, Republic 4-5
Tenth Week
1) Plato, Republic 6-7
2) Plato, Republic 8-9
3) Plato, Republic 10
Second Quarter
First Week
1) Plato's Symposium
2) Song of Solomon
3) Psalms
Second Week
1) Aristotle, Ethics 1-2
2) Aristotle, Ethics 3-4
3) Aristotle, Ethics 5-6
Third Week
1) Aristotle, Ethics 7-8
2) Aristotle, Ethics 9-10
3) Aristotle, Politics 1-2
Fourth Week
1) Aristotle, Politics 3-4
2) Aristotle, Politics 7-8
3) Aristotle, Poetics
Fifth Week
1) Aristotle, Metaphysics 1
2) Aristotle, Metaphysics 1
3) Aristotle, Physics 2
Sixth Week
1) Aristotle, Physics 2
2) Aristotle, On The Soul 1-2
3) Aristotle, On The Soul 2-3
Seventh Week
1) Aristotle, Physics 7
2) Aristotle, Physics 7
3) Aristotle, Metaphysics 11
Eighth Week
1) Lucretius, On The Nature of Things 1-2
2) Lucretius, On The Nature of Things 3-4
3) Lucretius, On The Nature of Things 5-6
Ninth Week
1) Livy 1
2) Polybius 6
3) Cicero, De Re Publica
Tenth Week
1) Plutarch, Caesar, Alexander
2) Plutarch, Romulus, Theseus
Third Quarter
First Week
1) Exodus
2) Exodus
3) Deuteronomy
Second Week
1) Virgil, Aeneid 1-3
2) Virgil, Aeneid 4-6, Georgics 4
Third Week
1) Virgil, Aeneid 7-12
2) Tacitus, Annals 1-6
3) Tacitus, History 1-5
Fourth Week
1) Matthew
2) Paul, Romans
3) Revelation
Fifth Week
1) Augustine, Confessions
2) Augustine, Confessions
3) Augustine, City of God
Sixth Week
1) Augustine, City of God
2) Aquinas, Summa Theologica
3) Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Seventh Week
1) Aquinas, Summa Theologica
2) Aquinas, Summa Theologica
3) Dante, Inferno
Eighth Week
1) Ibn Kaldun, The Muqaddimah
2) Ibn Kaldun, The Muqaddimah
3) Dante, Inferno
Ninth Week
1) Dante, Inferno
2) Dante, Paradiso
3) Dante, Paradiso
Tenth Week
1) Njal Saga
2) Njal Saga
3) Song of Roland
Second Year
First Quarter
First Week
1) Montaigne, Essays
2) Montaigne, Essays
3) Machiavelli, Prince
Second Week
1) Machiavelli, Prince
2) Machiavelli, Discourses
3) Machiavelli, Discourses
Third Week
1) Cervantes, Don Quixote
2) Cervantes, Don Quixote
3) Cervantes, Don Quixote
Fourth Week
1) Racine, Phædre
2) Shakespeare, Hamlet
3) Shakespeare, Lear
Fifth Week
1) Shakespeare, Lear
2) Shakespeare, Tempest
3) Bacon, New Atlantis
Sixth Week
1) Galileo, Two World Systems
2) Galileo, Two World Systems
3) Descartes, Discourse on Method
Seventh Week
1) Descartes, Discourse on Method
2) Descartes, Meditations
3) Descartes, Meditations
Eighth Week
1) Hobbes, Leviathan
2) Hobbes, Leviathan
3) Hobbes, Leviathan
Ninth Week
1) Hobbes, Leviathan
2) Pascal, Pensées
3) Pascal, Pensées
Tenth Week
1) Vico, The New Science
2) Vico, The New Science
3) Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Second Quarter
First Week
1) Locke, Second Treatise
2) Locke, Second Treatise
3) Locke, Second Treatise
Second Week
1) Montesquieu, Persian Letters
2) Montesquieu, Persian Letters
3) Hume, Dialogues on Natural Religion
Third Week
1) Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
2) Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
3) Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Fourth Week
1) Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections)
2) Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections)
3) D'Alembert, Preface to L'Encyclopedie
Fifth Week
1) Rousseau, First Discourse
2) Rousseau, Second Discourse
3) Rousseau, Third Discourse
Sixth Week
1) Rousseau, Emile 1
2) Rousseau, Emile 2
3) Rousseau, Emile 3
Seventh Week
1) Rousseau, Emile 4
2) Rousseau, Emile 5
3) Rousseau, Social Contract 1
Eighth Week
1) Rousseau, Social Contract 2
2) Rousseau, Social Contract 3-4
3) Rousseau, Reveries
Ninth Week
1) Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
2) Tocqueville, The Ancient Regime and the French Revolution
3) Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1
Tenth Week
1) Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1
2) Tocqueville, Democracy in America 2
3) Tocqueville, Democracy in America 3
Third Quarter
First Week
1) Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals
2) Kant, Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals
3) Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Introduction)
Second Week
1) Goethe, Faust 1
2) Goethe, Faust 1
3) Goethe, Faust 2
Third Week
1) Goethe, Faust 2
2) Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind (selections)
3) Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind (selections)
Fourth Week
1) Hegel, Philosophy of History
2) Hegel, Philosophy of History
3) Hegel, Philosophy of History
Fifth Week
1) Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
2) Marx, 1844 Manuscripts
3) Marx, German Ideology
Sixth Week
1) Marx, Das Kapital (selections)
2) Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
3) Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Seventh Week
1) Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
2) Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
3) Darwin, Origin of Species
Eighth Week
1) Darwin, Origin of Species
2) Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
3) Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
Ninth Week
1) Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2) Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3) Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (selections)
Tenth Week
1) Weber, Science as a Vocation
2) Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
3) Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
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