Great Books Seminar IV

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Continuing from Great Books Seminar III, and the second in the junior seminar sequence, this course focuses on works from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment period. The texts include Shakespeare's <i>Tempest</i>, Bacon's <i>New Organon</i>, Descartes' <i>Discourse on Method</i> and <i>Meditations on First Philosophy</i>, Hobbes's <i>Leviathan</i>, Pascal's <i>Pensees</i>, Swift's <i>Gulliver's Travels</i>, Hume's <i>Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding</i>, Rousseau's <i>Discourse on the Origin of Inequality</i>, Smith's <i>Wealth of Nations</i>, Kant's <i>Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics</i>, Malthus's <i>Essay on the Principles of Population</i>, Austen's <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, Goethe's <i>Faust</i>, and Mozart's <i>Don Giovanni</i>.