###LISTS The official department reading lists for M&E (as of 2013)
Plato, Meno; Phaedo; Republic, Books V-VII; Parmenides 127-135;
Theaetetus; Timaeus 27-52
Aristotle, Categories, Chaps. 1-5; Posterior Analytics I.1-3, II.19; Physics I.7,
II.1-3, 7-9, IV.10-14; De Anima, Books II and III; Metaphysics I.1-4, 6, 9,
IV.1-2, VI.1, VII.1-6, 13-17, VIII.1-2, XII.6-10
Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus
Diogenes Laertius, Lives VII.45-54, 132-59 (on Stoics)
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism I.1-13
Plotinus, Enneads I.6, V.1, and VI.9
Porphyry, Isagoge
Augustine, On the Free Choice of the Will, Book II; Confessions VII, VIII.5, 8-10,
XI.14-28; City of God, VIII.1-12, XII.1-9; Against the Academics II. 11-13,
III.1-8
Boethius, Commentary on Isagoge I.10-11 (on universals); Consolation of
Philosophy V.2, 3, 6 (on eternity and foreknowledge)
Anselm, Proslogion + debate between Gaunilo and Anselm
Abelard, Glosses on Porphyry (on universals)
Aquinas, Summa Theologica I, Questions 2, 12-14, 19
William of Ockham, Summa Logicae Part I, Chaps. 14-17
Descartes, Meditations
Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics; Monadology; “Primary Truths” and “A New
System of Nature”
Spinoza, Ethics, Parts I-II
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding I.1, II. 1-12, 21, 23, 27, III.2-
4, 6, IV.1-4, 6, 9-11
Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge
Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding; Treatise of Human Nature
I.4.6 (“Of Personal Identity”) and Appendix (on belief)
Kant, selections from Critique of Pure Reason: “Preface to the Second Edition”;
“Introduction”; “Transcendental Aesthetic”; “Transcendental Analytic”
(incl. “Analytic of Concepts” and “Analytic of Principles”); “Transcendental
Dialectic,” Introduction and Book II, Chap. 2 (The Antinomy of Pure
Reason”); “The Paralogisms of Pure Reason”
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, Chapter Four, Pt. A (“Independence and
Dependence of Self-Consciousness”); Encyclopedia (Introduction); The
Philosophy of History (Introduction); Lectures on the History of
Philosophy, Volume Three, Section Three, Part E (“The Final Result”)Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Please let me know if you have the most recent list. Thanks.