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"Inspired by one of the most incredible presidents in U.S. History, The Thomas Jefferson Center at UT at Austin is aimed at “educating citizens and leaders to understand the meaning of liberty and to exercise it wisely.” Jefferson believed this to be possible by being educated in the liberal arts tradition of Great Books."
Thomas Jefferson Center, core texts
liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/
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Welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Center Book Shelf. This web page offers a list of many of the core texts which are read and discussed in Jefferson Center classes, and which can provide the foundation for a serious great books education. We are offering this list, accessible on the left of this page and broken down by four major categories, for two main reasons. First, we want to give students an idea of what works they can expect to study if they decide to pursue our certificate. Second, we want to provide a public resource to help guide people outside the university who are interested in studying the core texts on their own. We hope that this list will help guide you in your own reading.
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Philosophy and Literature of the Ancient World
liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/resources/book-shelf/the-ancient-world.php
So for Plato they rae reading Republic, Gorgias, and Symposium. ( need more than that )
Also Apology and they recommend: Thomas and Grace Starry West,
in Four Texts on Socrates, Cornell University Press
For Aristotle it is Nichomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, and The Poetics
And they use the NRSV Bible, w/ Apocrypha.
Don't know that they read the whole thing.
THey read Aristotle's Politics, and they Read Kant, and Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Genealogy of Morals.
They read lots of stuff, including:
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto and Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1848
www.amazon.com/Philosophic-Manuscripts-Communist-Manifesto-Philosophy/dp/087975446X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365377089&sr=1-1&keywords=marx+manuscripts
All in all a most impressive program from UT. Is it practical for people who are majoring in other things? Hard to say. No matter, anyone who wants to can follow their lead and read the same things.
symposiumsa.com/
Thomas Jefferson Center, core texts
liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/
"
Welcome to the Thomas Jefferson Center Book Shelf. This web page offers a list of many of the core texts which are read and discussed in Jefferson Center classes, and which can provide the foundation for a serious great books education. We are offering this list, accessible on the left of this page and broken down by four major categories, for two main reasons. First, we want to give students an idea of what works they can expect to study if they decide to pursue our certificate. Second, we want to provide a public resource to help guide people outside the university who are interested in studying the core texts on their own. We hope that this list will help guide you in your own reading.
"
Philosophy and Literature of the Ancient World
liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/resources/book-shelf/the-ancient-world.php
So for Plato they rae reading Republic, Gorgias, and Symposium. ( need more than that )
Also Apology and they recommend: Thomas and Grace Starry West,
in Four Texts on Socrates, Cornell University Press
For Aristotle it is Nichomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, and The Poetics
And they use the NRSV Bible, w/ Apocrypha.
Don't know that they read the whole thing.
THey read Aristotle's Politics, and they Read Kant, and Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Genealogy of Morals.
They read lots of stuff, including:
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto and Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1848
www.amazon.com/Philosophic-Manuscripts-Communist-Manifesto-Philosophy/dp/087975446X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365377089&sr=1-1&keywords=marx+manuscripts
All in all a most impressive program from UT. Is it practical for people who are majoring in other things? Hard to say. No matter, anyone who wants to can follow their lead and read the same things.
symposiumsa.com/