Reading List

Instructions: Read all documents prior to arriving at Perennial College and review reading before the class as assigned.

CLASS ONE

Plato, The Republic, Book VII (6 pages)
Hamilton and Cairns, ed., Plato: Collected Dialogues
Random House 1863
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Socrates, The Apology (23 pages)
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CLASS TWO

Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, preface (13 pages) 
W.W. Norton 2012 356 pages
ISBN-13: 978 0393 343 403
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Rondo Keel, Ockham Explained: From Razor to Rebellion 
Open House 2010 192 pages
ISBN-13 978 0812 696508
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CLASS THREE

Matthew, in The Holy Bible. Any translation except King James.  
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Romans, in The Holy Bible. Any translation except King James.
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CLASS FOUR

The Qu’ran: “The Cow” (Al-Baqara) (20 pages)
The Holy Qur’an
Wordsworth Editions ISBN: 978 1953 2678 26
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“The Prophets” (Al-Anbya)  (10 pages)
The Holy Qur’an
Wordsworth Editions ISBN: 978 1953 2678 26
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CLASS FIVE

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex,  Introduction (not the editor’s introduction, but Simone de Beauvoir’s introduction) 16 pages
Vintage Books 1989    800 pages
ISBN :  067 972 4516
ISBN-13:  978 067 972 4513
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W.E.B. Dubois, Darkwater, ch. II, “The Souls of White Folk”  (23 pages) 
Dover Publications 1999
ISBN-13:  978 0 486 40890 3
ISBN-10: 0 486 40890 6
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CLASS SIX

The Dalai Lama, How to See Yourself as You Really Are, Jeffrey Hopkins ed.
Atria Books.  288 pages.
ISBN-10: 074 329 0461
ISBN-13: 978 074 329 0463
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