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February 13, 2007 by kevinstilley

Life and Thought Seminars at The College at Southwestern

If you are in the process of deciding what college you will attend, you must give serious consideration to The College at Southwestern. I am probably The College’s biggest fan.

Check out some of the texts being used in the Life and Thought seminars.

Early Western Civilization

Aristotle – Rhetoric
Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics
Plato – Republic
Plato – Timaeus and Critias
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Sophocles – Antigone

Church and Empires Seminar

Athanasius – On the Incarnation
Augustine – Confessions
Augustine – The City of God
Cicero – On Duties

World Religions Seminar

Buddhism – The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
Confucianism – The Analects of Confucius
Hinduism – The Bhagavad Gita
Islam – The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an
Judaism – The Talmud

Renaissance and Reformation Seminar

Aquinas – Summa Theologiae
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Luther/Erasmus – Captivation of the Will
Hubmaier – On the Christian Baptism of Believers
Habmaier – Catechism
Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
C.S. Lewis – The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Enlightenment and Romantic Seminar

John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress
Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method
John Locke – Two Treatises on Gov’t
Blaise Pascal – Pensees
Jean Rousseau – Emile
John Wesley – Selected Works
Jonathan Edwards – Religious Affections

The 19th Century Seminar

Charles Darwin – On The Origin of Species
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Charles Finney – Lectures on Revivals of Religion
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
Charles Spurgeon – Lectures to My Students
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution

The Early 20th Century Seminar

G. K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
John Dewey – Experience and Education
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land
Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
William James – Pragmatism
Bertrand Russell – Why I am Not a Christian
Churchill’s – Second World War

The Late 20th Century Seminar

Karl Barth – The Word of God and the Word of Man
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
H. Richard Niebuhr – Christ and Culture
Vatican II Texts
J. F. Lyotard – Selected Works
Peter Kreeft – Between Heaven and Hell

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