More on the Readings, 2008-2009

September 11, 2008 - John Dewey: Habits and Will.  14 pages http://www.alexandercenter.com/jd/johndeweyhabits.html  Taken from Human Nature and Conduct


September 25, 2008 - John Stuart Mill: On Liberty.  On Liberty (essay) 26 pages http://www.billstclair.com/Serendipity/on_lib.html   Also at http://www.constitution.org/jsm/liberty.htm


October 9, 2008 - * William Shakespeare: Hamlet  http://www.william-shakespeare.info/script-text-hamlet.htm OR

126 pages http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/


October 23, 2008 - The Gospel of Mark, from the Bible.  22 pages. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/search/

Chapters: 1:1-39; 2:1-17; 3:1-19; 4; 5:1-20; 6:30-43; 8:27-38; 9:1-10; 10:17-34; 11:1-27; 12:13-34; 14; 15; 16:1-8


November 13, 2008 - Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War.  Richard Crawley's translation is at: http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html 59 pages Book 1, pages 35-49; Book 3, pages 194-223; and Book 5, pages 400-408


December 11, 2008 - Carl von Clausewitz: What Is War?  24pp. http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/On_War/BK1ch01.html  Vol. 1 is also available from http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1946


January 8, 2009 - * Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya  55pp. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1756  Study or search the play online at http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/uncle_vanya/


January 22, 2009 - Maimonides: On Evil.  19pp. http://www.teachittome.com/seforim2/seforim/the_guide_for_the_perplexed.pdf


February 12, 2009 - Homer: The Iliad  144pp. http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html


February 26, 2009 – Charles de Montesquieu: Principles of Government  26pp. http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/library/tocs/MonLaws.html  (within Spirit of Laws Ch.3.22 The Principle of Different Governments)


March 12, 2009 - Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales    81 pp. (A portion of the General Prologue, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and The Clerk's Tale) http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/14/24/frameset.html


March 26, 2009 - *Aeschylus: Agamemnon.  63pp. http://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html


April 9, 2009 - *Henry James: The Beast in the Jungle  52pp. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1093


April 23, 2009 - Machiavelli: The Prince  37 pp. http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/library/tocs/MacPrin.html


May 14, 2009 - *Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych  65pp. http://www.classicallibrary.org/tolstoy/ivan/


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