Summer Reading List

Read in Honors HUM-105, The History of Great Ideas:

• Leo Tolstoy - "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
  
• Plato - "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic (≈ 360 B.C.)
• Aristotle - "Aristotle on Slavery" from Politics (≈ 330 B.C.)
• Selections from the Rig-Veda (≈ 15th-10th Century B.C.), Upanishads, & the Bhagavad Gita (≈ 8th Century B.C.)
• Asvaghosa - "The Enlightenment of the Buddha: Buddhacarita" (2nd Century A.D.)
  
• Confucius - Selections from The Analects (5th Century B.C.)
• "Moses and the Ten Commandments: Israel at Mount Sinai" from The Torah (Events ≈ 13th Century B.C.)
• "The Night Journey" from The Koran (650)
• The Dalai Lama - "The Ethic of Compassion" from Ethics for the New Millennium (1999)
• Lao-tzu - Selections from the Tao-te Ching (6th Century B.C.)
• Alan Watts - "Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen" (1958)
• C. S. Lewis - "Meditation in a Toolshed" from God In the Dock (1979)
  
• Niccolò Machiavelli - "The Qualities of the Prince" from The Prince (1513)
• Francis Bacon - "The Four Idols" from Novum Organum (1620)
• Voltaire - Candide: Or, Optimism (1759)
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
  
• Jonathan Swift - "A Modest Proposal" (1729)
• Margaret Killjoy & Colin Foran - Selections from A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse (2007)
  
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Origin of Civil Society" from The Social Contract (1762)
• Thomas Jefferson - "The Declaration of Independence" (1776)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)
• Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto (1848)
• Charles Darwin - "Natural Selection" from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)
• Stephen Jay Gould - "Nonmoral Nature" (1982)
• William Paley - Selection from Natural Theology (1802)
• Sigmund Freud - "The Oedipus Complex" from The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
• Howard Gardner - "A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" (1993)
• Frederick Douglass - Selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
• Jamaica Kincaid - Selections from A Small Place (1988)

Currently reading for fun:

• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)
  
• Herman Melville - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)