Western Tradition II
Employing and building upon the strategies of critical thinking, critical reading, and shared inquiry learned in previous seminars, students will read, write about and discuss a selection of Renaissance, 17th, 18th and 19th century texts from the Western tradition.
The reading list is current but subject to modification. From some texts selections are read.
Reading List
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Luther, On Christian Liberty
- Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
- Descartes, Discourse on Method
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
- Voltaire, Candide
- Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Selections from Romantic Poetry
- Dickens, Hard Times
- Marx, Communist Manifesto
- Nightingale, Cassandra
- Darwin, The Origin of Species
- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum