Texts

The texts selected for study in Western Heritage are outstanding works of literature, social and political philosophy, science, film and music. The following texts are read in Western Heritage I & II.

Please note, translations and editions may vary. Please purchase the specific edition specified by your professor, available in the Carthage Bookstore.

CORE 110: Intellectual History of Western Heritage

Homer, Odyssey
Plato, Euthyphro and Apology
Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Matthew, and John)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics & Physics
Virgil, Aeneid
Raphael, Stanza della Segnatura
Rules for Writer's/Research Pack/Webster's Dictionary
Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Augustine, Confessions

CORE 111: Intellectual History of Western Heritage II

Dante, Inferno
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Montaigne, Essays
Bacon, The New Atlantis and Great Instauration
Locke &, Declaration of Independence
Rousseau, Second Discourse 
Marx, Communist Manifesto
Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk
Sabrina Dhawan, Monsoon Wedding

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