The Humanities Reading
August 12, 2023 2023-08-12 15:38The Humanities Reading
The Humanities Reading List
Sattler College’s core curriculum in the humanities consists of four components:
- An intensive introduction to expository writing, rhetoric, and the tradition of liberal arts education
- A three-semester sequence of lectures and discussion-based seminars devoted to the key philosophical, literary, and artistic works of the western intellectual tradition, from Antiquity to the modern era
- A three-semester sequence of seminars on the Old and New Testaments, the foundational texts of Christian theology, and apologetics
- A survey of Global Christianity, equipping students with understanding of the history and life of the Church in non-western societies
Students will grapple with the core texts that generation upon generation has returned to read – in times of war and peace, in times of plague and plenty – in order to gain special insights into our human struggles and to reclaim our highest ideals:
- The Bible
- Homer, Iliad
- Homer, Odyssey
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
- Herodotus, Histories
- Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
- Plato, Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, The Republic
- Aristotle, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics
- Cicero, On Duties, On the Orator
- Livy, The History of Rome
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Seneca, On Tranquility of Mind, On the Shortness of Life, On Mercy, On Liberal and Vocational Studies
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives, On Listening, On Contentment
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Athanasius, Life of St. Antony
- The Rules of St. Basil and St. Benedict
- Augustine, Confessions, City of God, On the Catechizing of the Uninstructed
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- Cassiodorus, Introduction to Divine and Humane Letters
- The Song of Roland
- Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion
- Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalicon
- Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs
- Aquinas, Summa Theologica
- Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- Petrarch, The Ascent of Mont Ventoux, Secretum
- Boccaccio, The Decameron
- Catherine of Siena, Dialogue
- Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
- Vergerio, The Character and StudiesBefitting a Free-Born Youth
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Erasmus, Enchiridion, Paraclesis, The Complaint of Peace
- Luther, Two Kinds of Righteousness, The Freedom of a Christian, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Large Catechism
- Sattler, The Schleitheim Confession
- Calvin, The Institutes
- Ursinus, The Heidelberg Catechism
- Teresa of Avila, Autobiography
- Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians
- The Book of Common Prayer
- Shakespeare,Richard II, King Lear
- de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- van Braght, Martyrs’ Mirror
- van Schurman, Eukleria
- Milton, Samson Agonistes
- Molière, The Misanthrope
- Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Locke, Second Treatise on Government
- Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, The Social Contract, Emile
- Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, The Wealth of Nations
- Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, What is Enlightenment?
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Franklin, Autobiography
- Hamilton, Madison & Jay, The Federalist Papers
- Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Blake, Poems
- Wordsworth & Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
- Austen, Sense and Sensibility
- Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit
- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Marx, Capital
- Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
- Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
- DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
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