Texts

The texts selected for study in Western Heritage are outstanding works of literature, social and political philosophy, and science. 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.

COR 1100: 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, School of Athens
Rules for Writers (Carthage Edition)
Aeschylus, The Oresteia (optional)
Augustine, Confessions (optional)

COR 1110: Intellectual History of Western Heritage II

Dante, Inferno
Shakespeare, The Tempest
Montaigne, Essays (optional)
Bacon, The New Atlantis and Great Instauration
Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
Rousseau, The First and Second Discourses
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk

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