Great Books Seminar V

(4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The first in the senior Great Books seminar sequence, this course focuses on classic texts from the nineteenth-century literature, and, in addition, on important works from the Eastern tradition that entered the European canon during the nineteenth century. The works studied include Tolstoy's <i>War and Peace</i>, Confucius's <i>Analects</i>, <i>The Way of Lao Tzu</i>, the <i>Bhagavad Gita</i>, Hegel's <i>Philosophy of History</i>, Kierkegaard's <i>Philosophical Fragments</i>, Newman's <i>Idea of a University</i>, De Tocqueville's <i>Democracy in America</i>, Melville's <i>Moby Dick</i>, Thoreau's <i>Walden</i>, Mill's <i>On Liberty</i>, and Darwin's <i>Descent of Man</i>.