1. Leo Tolstoy - A Confession (literature/religion/philosophy)
2. Keith Lehrer - Theory of Knowledge (philosophy)
3. Thomas Sowell - Black Rednecks and White Liberals (cultural studies/ethnic studies)
4. The Bible (religion, Protestant canon/NRSV translation)
5. Talcott Parsons - "The System of Modern Societies" [reading from James Farganis (editor) - Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism] (sociology)
6. Stanley Rosen (editor) - The Examined Life: Readings from Western Philosophers from Plato to Kant (philosophy)
Part One: Social and Political Philosophy
Part Four: Metaphysics
G.W.F. Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy
7. William Dembski - "Reinstating Design Within Science" [reading from Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger (editors) - Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings] (philosophy/science)
8. Robert Nozick - The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations (philosophy)
9. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Letters and Papers from Prison (prison literature/religion, edited by Eberhard Bethge, translated by Reginald Fuller, Frank Clark, and others)
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Character" (literature/philosophy)
11. Charles E. Moore (editor) - Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard (philosophy/theology)
12. Jerry Z. Muller (editor) - Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present (political science)
I have read the introduction and chapters 1–2. While I went to the effort of writing out the individual excerpts from Rosen's anthology that I read, I have decided not to do that here, so as to not waste time. Perhaps I will share some interesting quotations from this year's readings in future posts. Did anyone notice that there are two books here titled The Examined Life?
I remember Nozick from political philosophy class...sort of. I at least remember liking what I read of what he wrote but I don't remember any details.
ReplyDeleteIs your life thoroughly examined now? Hah.
Nice! The first thing I read from him was an excerpt from "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" about the experience machine. Good times in intro philosophy. :)
DeleteThank you for appreciating the double title! I try to live a thoroughly examined life. If only I could understand and retain more information from the books I read lol. Sometimes I feel like I read beyond my pay grade.