Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare are the only credited literary writers. Outside of HVDS--everything is garbage. HTH.

For social sciences--- The classical modern period of philosophy is the most credited. Descartes, Locke, Bacon, Newton, Hume, and Kant are most credited. Ancient comes second with Aristotle and Plato.

In ancient history, Herodotus is garbage, and Tacitus is credited.

For contemporary philosophy russell, wittgenstein, and quine are credited and anything french, existential or post-modern is garbage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936614)

Dostoevsky belongs on the literature list.

I don't see how you can argue modern philosophy is "more prestigious" than ancient. Plato is the most prestigious author of philosophy, and it's really not close. He is philosophy's Shakespeare.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936690)

Aug. 30 Homer: Iliad VII-XII Bible: Genesis 12-25 Cervantes: Don Quixote Tolstoi: War and Peace

Sep. 02 Homer: Iliad XIII-XVIII Bible: Genesis 26-50 Descartes: Meditations Letter of Dedication, Preface, I-III Hegel: Logic (Part One of the Encyclopedia), sections 79-89

Sep. 06 Homer: Iliad XIX-XXIV Bible: Exodus; Numbers 20 Descartes: Meditations IV-VI Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Introduction, sections 73-89

Sep. 09 Homer: Odyssey I-VIII Bible: Leviticus 11, 18-20; Deuteronomy Pascal: Pensées (selections)* Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Sense Certainty, Perception, sections 90-116

Sep. 13 Homer: Odyssey IX-XVI Bible: Samuel I, II; Kings I, 1-4 Pascal: Pensées (selections)* Hegel: Phenomenologyof Spirit Lordship and Bondage, sections 178-196

Sep. 16 Homer: Odyssey XVII-XXIV Bible: Psalms (selections)* Milton: Paradise Lost I-III Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Stoicism and Skepticism, sections 197-206

Sep. 20 Plato: Meno Bible: Amos; Jonah; Isaiah 40-55 Milton: Paradise Lost IV; V; VI Argument only; VII Argument, 1-39; VIII Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Unhappy Consciousness, sections 207-230

Sep. 23 Aeschylus: Agamemnon Bible: Job Milton: Paradise Lost IX-X, XI to 428, XII 446 to end Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit Conscience and The Beautiful Soul, sections 632-658

Sep. 27 Aeschylus: Libation Bearers; Eumenides Lucretius: De Rerum Natura I-III Hobbes: Leviathan Letter of Dedication, Author's Preface, Chapters 1-11 Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit The Beautiful Soul and Forgiveness, sections 659-671; AbsoluteKnowing, sections 806-808

Sep. 30 Plato: Gorgias 447A-481B Lucretius: De Rerum Natura IV-VI Hobbes: Leviathan Chapters 12-18 Marx: Communist Manifesto; The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (selections)*

Oct. 04 Plato: Gorgias 481B-527E Virgil: Aeneid I-IV Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* Marx: Capital Vol. I Part I (selections)*

Oct. 07 Plutarch: Lives Lycurgus; Solon Virgil: Aeneid V-VIII Hobbes: Leviathan (selections)* Marx: Capital Vol. I Part II (selections)*

Oct. 11 Herodotus: History I; II, 50-53, 112-120; III, 37, 38, 66-87 Virgil: Aeneid IX-XII Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise (selections)* Marx: The German Ideology (selections)*

Oct. 14 Herodotus: History V, 76-78, 91-93, 105; VI, 48, 56-72, 94-120; VII (entire) Plutarch: Lives Caesar; Cato the Younger Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise (selections)* Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling beginning - Problema I

Oct. 18 Herodotus: History VIII; IX Tacitus: Annals I-II Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapters I - III (incl. Appendix)

Oct. 21 Plato: Republic I-II 367E Tacitus: Annals III-VI Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (selections)* Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments Chapter IV - end (Moral)

Oct. 25 Plato: Republic II 367E-IV 427C Epictetus: Discourses and Handbook (selections)* Leibniz: Principles of Nature and Grace; Monadology; Philosophical Essays (selections)* Melville: Benito Cereno

Oct. 28 Plato: Republic IV 427D-VI 502C Bible: Matthew Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 01 Plato: Republic VI 502D-VII Bible: Luke Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 04 Plato: Republic VIII-IX Bible: Acts Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 08 Plato: Republic X Bible: Gospel of John; First Letter of John Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 11 Aristophanes: Clouds Bible: I Corinthians Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 15 Plato: Apology and Crito Bible: Romans Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 18 Plato: Phaedo 57A-84B Plotinus: (selections)* Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 22 Plato: Phaedo 84B-118B Augustine: Confessions I-V Preceptorial Preceptorial

Nov. 29 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War I; II, 1-46 Augustine: Confessions VI-IX Preceptorial Preceptorial

Dec. 02 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War II, 47-end; III; IV, 1-41 Augustine: Confessions X-XI Preceptorial Preceptorial

Dec. 06 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War IV, 42-end; V; VI, 1-32 Anselm: Proslogium Preceptorial Preceptorial

Dec. 09 Thucydides: Peloponnesian War VI, 33-end; VII Christian Creeds: (selections)* Preceptorial Preceptorial

Dec. 13 Plato: Symposium beginning-198A Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)* Preceptorial Preceptorial

Dec. 16 Plato: Symposium 198-end Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars (selections)*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936654)

edit: obv talking about their tranfer system, you could go back and forth b/w campuses every yr right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936788)

also, I thought i'd be fine with dealing with impenetrable jargon for six figures.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936818)

Some haven't done much...one thing the program is not always good at is giving people direction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936855)

"In the transaction, he was represented by Matthew Krane, a thirty-two-year-old tax lawyer at Pollock, Bloom & Dekom, a boutique firm that specialized in entertainment law, in Los Angeles. Brainy and engaging, Krane—slight, dark-haired, with a sharp, blue-eyed gaze—had eclectic interests. After graduating from St. John’s College, in Santa Fe, he won a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and spent a year in Europe, studying electronic-music composition. Then he went on to Harvard Law School. Krane revelled in the rigors of tax law."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck?currentPage=all#ixzz0yFh34FwT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936892)

http://web.jhu.edu/post_bac/profiles/james-harrison.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936849)

The decision came down to the practical reality that I didn't have many skills except for an ability to read difficult material everyday, and a tolerance for the mundane and trivial.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936835)

no, you can't rattle off speeches the way gunners do in ls. you have to learn how to work off other people in a seminar. I realized in ls that people are very, very bad at this normally--made me miss st. john's. most people at that school do learn how to talk about difficult topics in a group.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936771)

You are correct. A 4.0 may be granted only once every few years. On top of that, many tutors quietly take pride in tough grading.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936776)

Mr. André Barbera

Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Mr. William Braithwaite

Spinoza, Ethics

Mr. Matthew Caswell

Mach, The Science of Mechanics

Mr. Radoslav Datchev

Mach’s book should be a good addition to the work of the Junior Lab and Junior Math, as it examines in some detail the discoveries of Galileo, Huygens, Newton, among others. It should also be a good introduction to the work of the Senior Math, given that Einstein wrote in his Autobiography: ‘this book influenced me profoundly in my student years’. At the same time the book is concerned explicitly with the general questions raised by knowledge and its acquisition.

Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Mr. Daniel Harrell

Sophocles, Trachinian Women and Philoctetes

Ms. Katherine Heines

Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche

Mr. Peter Kalkavage

The topic is the metaphysics of music. The texts are Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and Case of Wagner. Our discussion will involve some analysis of Wagner’s Tristan. Some music analysis will be involved.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Ms. Pamela Kraus

Plato, Republic

Mr. William Pastille

Plato, Theaetetus

Mr. Alan Pichanick

The Dialogues of George Berkeley

Ms. Amanda Printz

We will be exploring the fundamental tenets of George Berkeley’s philosophical system via a close reading of his primary and most influential works, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, The Theory of Vision Vindicated and Explained, and A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. The questions and concerns with which Berkeley was engaged are familiar to us. His philosophical works could generally be viewed as a theologically motivated reaction to what he calls the ‘mechanistic philosophy’ of seventeenth century thinkers like Descartes and Locke. His response to this ‘new philosophy’ includes his examination of subjects such as the nature of matter and substance, perception and the epistemological access we have to the world in which we live, spiritual vs. material causality, the existence of God, the meaning of abstract terms, the role of mathematics in scientific investigation, and the objects and aims of all scientific inquiry.

Aristotle, Rhetoric

Mr. Greg Recco

The nature and situation of humans living in common makes persuasion a necessity. In order to understand how to persuade, then, one must know something of human nature in respect of our common opinions and susceptibility to be moved. Accordingly, Aristotle’s treatise on rhetoric contains some of his most acute observations on the powers of passions and of human situations (e.g., age, wealth, power) to incline us to be persuaded in one way or another. We will consult the Greek, but will not make translation our primary activity.

Cicero

Mr. Erik Sageng

We will read from the treatises in which Cicero has representatives of the various Hellenistic schools debate Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic principles of Ethics, Theology, and Epistemology. We will probably start with On the Nature of the Gods (De Natura Deorum), On Academic Skepticism (Academica), and On Ends (De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum).

Proust, Swann’s Way

Mr. Eric Salem

And perhaps some of the second and some of the last volume.

Readings in Social Thought

Ms. Judy Seeger

Many of the authors we read in the Program touch upon the relationship between human beings and the societies in which we live. In this preceptorial we will explore this relationship further than we are able to do in our regular seminar sequence, by reading selected works of the following 19th and 20th century authors: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (The Communist Manifesto and The German Ideology, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (selections from The Ancient City), Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism), Emile Durkheim (selections from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life), Marcel Mauss (The Gift), Clifford Geertz (selections from The Interpretation of Cultures), and Victor Turner (selections from The Forest of Symbols). We will also watch an ethnographic film.

Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

(Ms. Joan Silver)

Readings in J. Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

(Mr. Mark Sinnett)

The Institutes was the first summa of Reformed dogmatics, taking as its subject matter nothing less than the whole of the Church’s proclamation. It exercised enormous influence on virtually every aspect of Western culture, especially on modern natural science and constitutional law. The influence of Calvin’s thought in the history of American society, in particular, can hardly be overstated; the “federal” structure of both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of 1787, for example, reflect central principles of the Federal (i.e., Reformed) Theology formulated in the course of the Swiss Reformation.

Stendhal, The Red and The Black, Essay on Love

Mr. Jeffrey Smith

Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov

Mr. David Townsend

Su Dongpo, poems and writing

Mr. Cordell Yee

Su Dongo (aka Su Shi, 1037-1101) was one of China’s great polymaths, accomplished in politics, engineering, pharmacology, literature, and the visual arts. We will undertake close reading of some of his literary and calligraphic works. No knowledge of Chinese is needed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936667)

and what about milton

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936710)

He was excommunicated not because he rebelled against Judaism, but because he was interpreted to.

He actually loved GOD and Judaism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936831)

The Merchant of Venice; the speech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411315&forum_id=2#15936826)