Many of the readings may be downloaded as excerpts in PDF format or, in complete form, from the Project Gutenberg site. Those available for download have a direct link to the text listed next to the bibliographic entry.
| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction Genesis. (download from Project Gutenberg site) |
| 2 |
Sophocles. Antigone. Martin Luther King. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. (PDF) |
| 3 | Plato. The Republic. Parts I and II (pp. 61-128) [327a-376c].** (PDF) |
| 4 | Plato. The Republic. Part III, section 2 (pp. 166-176) [403d-412a]; Parts IV and V (pp. 177-24) [412a-445d]. |
| 5 | Plato. The Republic. Part VII (pp. 260-325) [471c-521b], Part IX, section 10 (pp. 398-420) [576c-592a]. |
| 6 | Aristotle. Excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics. |
| 7 | Aristotle. Excerpt from Nichomachean Ethics. (continued) |
| 8 |
Excerpt from The Gospel According to St Matthew. (download from Project Gutenberg site) Dante. Inferno. (download from Project Gutenberg site) |
| 9 | Dante. Inferno. (continued) |
| 10 | Dante. Inferno. (continued) |
| 11 |
Machiavelli. Excerpt from The Prince. Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. (PDF) |
| 12 | Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. (continued) |
| 13 | Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. (continued) |
| 14 | Thomas Hobbes. Excerpt from Leviathan. |
| 15 | Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. |
| 16 | Melville, Herman. Billy Budd. (continued) |
| 17 | Kant, Immanuel. Excerpts from Metaphysics of Morals. (PDF) |
| 18 | Mill, J.S. Excerpts from Utilitarianism. |
| 19 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part I. (download from Project Gutenberg site) |
| 20 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part II; Part III, Chap. 1-3. |
| 21 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part III, 4-end, Part IV, Part V. |
| 22 | Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment. Part VI; Epilogue. |
| 23 | Conrad. The Secret Sharer. (download from Project Gutenberg site) |
| 24 | Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. (PDF) |
| 25 | Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. (continued) |
| 26 | O'Connor, Flannery. "The Displaced Person." (PDF) |
** Numbers in brackets are standard marginal notations for all translations and editions, based by convention on the edition of Plato's works edited by Stephanus and published in 1578.