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St. John's College, Santa Fe is a liberal arts school that teaches its entire curriculum based on the Great Books of Western literature.

The Great Books (Santa Fe)

Freshman Year

Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
Euripedes: Hippolytus, Bacchae
Herodotus: Histories
Aristophanes: Clouds
Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
Euclid: Elements
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Plutarch: Lycurgus, Solon
Nicomachus: Arithmetic
Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood
Essays by: Archimedes, Fahrenheit, Avogadro, Dalton, Cannizzaro, Virchow, Mariotte, Driesch, Gay-Lussac, Spemann, Stears, J.J. Thomson, Mendeleev, Berthollet, J.L. Proust

Sophomore Year

The Bible
Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
Apollonius: Conics
Virgil: Aeneid
Plutarch: Caesar and Cato the Younger
Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
Tacitus: Annals
Ptolemy: Almagest
Plotinus: The Enneads
Augustine: Confessions
St. Anselm: Proslogion
Aquinas: Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles
Dante: Divine Comedy
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Des Prez: Mass
Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
Luther: The Freedom of a Christian
Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Montaigne: Essays
Viete: Introduction to the Analytical Art
Bacon: Novum Organum
Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
Poems by: Marvell, Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
Haydn: Quartets
Mozart: Operas
Beethoven: Sonatas
Schubert: Songs
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Junior Year

Cervantes: Don Quixote
Galileo: Two New Sciences
Descartes: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Milton: Paradise Lost
La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
La Fontaine: Fables
Pascal: Pensees
Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
Eliot: Middlemarch
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
Locke: Second Treatise of Government
Racine: Phaedre
Newton: Principia Mathematica
Kepler: Epitome IV
Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Hume: Treatise of Human Nature
Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
Moliere: The Misanthrope
Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers

Senior Year

Declaration of Independence
The Constitution
Supreme Court opinions
Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist Papers
Darwin: Origin of Species
Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, "Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Lincoln: Selected Speeches
Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Melville: Benito Cereno
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Flannery O'Connor: Selected Stories
Sigmund Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Booker T. Washington: Selected Writings
Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk
Heidegger: What is Philosophy?
Heisenberg: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Millikan: The Electron
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Essays by: Michael Faraday, J.J. Thomson, Gregor Mendel, Minkowski, Rutherford, Davisson, Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, de Broglie, Dreisch, Hans Christian Ørsted, Ampere, Boveri, Sutton, Morgan, Beadle & Tatum, Sussman, Watson & Crick, Jacob & Monod, Hardy

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