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Why do we
think the
earth goes
around
the sun?
What is the
meaning of the
inscription above
the gates of Hell?
What does it
mean for man to
be made in
the image of God?
Why
would
someone
with
magical
powers
renounce
them?
Sophomore
Year
*
The Bible
Aristotle
*
De Anima,
On
Interpretation, Prior
Analytics, Categories
Apollonius
Conics
*
Virgil
Aeneid
*
Plutarch
“
Caesar,” “Cato
the Younger,”
“
Anthony,” “Brutus”
*
Epictetus
Discourses, Manual
*
Tacitus
Annals
Ptolemy
Almagest
*
Plotinus
The Enneads
*
Augustine
Confessions
*
Anselm
Proslogium
*
Aquinas
Summa Theologiae
*
Dante
Divine Comedy
*
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Des Prez
Mass
*
Machiavelli
The Prince,
Discourses
Copernicus
On the Revolutions
of the Spheres
*
Luther
The Freedom of
a Christian
Kepler
Epitome IV
Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
*
Montaigne
Essays
Viète
“
Introduction to the
Analytical Art”
*
Bacon
NovumOrganum
Shakespeare
*
Richard II, *Henry
IV,
*
The Tempest,
*
As You Like It,
*
Hamlet, *Othello,
*
Macbeth, *King Lear,
Sonnets
Poems by:
Marvell, Donne, and
other 16th- and
17
th-century poets
Descartes
Geometry,
*
Discourse onMethod
Pascal
Generation
of Conic Sections
Rabelais
Gargantua and
Pantagruel
Bach
St. Matthew Passion,
Inventions
Hayden
Quartets
Monteverdi
L’Orfeo
Mozart
Operas
Beethoven
Third Symphony
Schubert
Songs
Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms
*
Maimonides
Guide for the
Perplexed
What is the
imagination?
How does
Bach’s
music change
our experience
of the
Passion
story?
Is politics the
enemy of love?
Does a prince
have to be
morally bad in
order to be a
good ruler?
How did
music come
to express
striving and
triumph?