Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Comp Lists

For the philosophy students - other readers will want to skip this post (new posts below).

Remember me complaining about my comps reading lists? I have transcribed the Ancient and Medieval ones here. When the feeling returns to my fingers, I might do the other ones.

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Kirk and Raven (eds.)
The Presocratic Philosophers, Chapters II-VII, IX-XI, XIV-XV, XVII

Plato
Euthyphro
Apology of Socrates
Crito
Phaedo
Meno
Gorgias
Protagoras
Phaedrus
Republic
Timaeus
Symposium
Theaetetus
Sophist
Statesman
Philebus


Aristotle
Categories
On Interpretation
Posterior Analytics
Physics
, Books I-IV, VII
Metaphysics
, Books I-IX, XII (i.e. Alpha through Theta, and Lambda)
de Anima
Nicomachean Ethics
Politics
, Books I-III, VII-VIII
On Poetics

Epicurus
Letters
Principal Doctrines
Sayings

Lucretius
The Nature of the Universe

Sextus Empiricus
Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Plotinus
Enneads

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY

Augustine
Concerning the Teacher
On the Immorality of the Soul
On the Free Choice of the Will
The Confessions,
Books VII-XI
On the Trinity,
Books VII-XV

D. Proclus
The Elements of Theology

Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy

John the Scot (Eriugena)
Periphyseon
On the Division of Nature

Anselm of Canterbury
Basic Writings
(ed. S. S. Deane)

Al-Farabi
The Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle

Averroes
On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
The Decisive Treatise in Medieval Political Philosophy


Thomas Aquinas
The Division and Methods of the Sciences
Concerning Being and Essence
Summa Theologiae,
Vols. I and II

Duns Scotus
Philosophical Writings
God and Creature


William of Ockham
Philosophical Writings
(Library of Liberal Arts)
Predestination, God's Foreknowledge and Future Contingents

Nicholas of Cusa
Of Learned Ignorance

Meister Eckhart
Sermons and Treatises

Francisco Suarez
Selections from Three Works
(Classics of International Law, No. 20, Oxford, 1944)

Maimonides
The Guide of the Perplexed

Leonardo da Vinci
The Notebooks

Marsilio Ficino
Commentary on Plato's Symposium

Pico della Mirandola
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Of Being and Unity

D. Erasmus
The Praise of Folly

Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
The Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy

Thomas More
Utopia

Tommaso Campanella
The City of the Sun

Giordano Bruno
The Ash Wednesday Supper
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds

Johannes Kepler
Mysterium Cosmographicum

Galileo Galilei
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

E. Cassirer, P.O. Kristeller, and J.H. Randall, eds.
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah yes ... but what will the questions be?