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Fall 2008 Booklist

You are required to bring all the required text to the first meeting of each class as a condition of admission to the course. A list of required texts is appended.  You can order them through eCampus.com.

Books are listed by the author's (or editorí' in some cases) last name and ISBN. The ISBN corresponds to the exact edition your tutors wish to use. If there is no ISBN listed, please follow the instructions for obtaining the text. Please contact your tutor directly for questions concerning exceptions to this list. 

You may also view a printable version of the Booklist as a PDF document.

Philosophy 
Propaedeutics (PHIL 1331)
The Complete Works of Plato ISBN: 0872203492
Kreeft, Peter Socratic Logic, St. Augustine’s Press (any edition)
Maritain, Jacques, An Introduction to Philosophy, trans. E.I. Watkin (any edition)
Pieper, Josef, Leisure, the Basis of Culture,trans. Gerald Malsbary Sout Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s
      Press, 1998. ISBN: 1890318353
Pope Leo XIII, Aeterni Patrix (Encyclical Letter, can be found on-line at http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13cph.htm)

Philosophy of Nature (PHIL 2331)
R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of Nature ISBN: 0195002172 Other editions are acceptable.
Plato, Timaeus in Complete Works ed. John M. Cooper, Hackett Publishing Company ISBN: 0872203492
Aristotle, Physics in Complete Works of Aristotle (2 vol. Set) Vol. I ed. Jonathan Barnes, Princeton University Press ISBN: 069101650X
Descartes, Selected Philosophical Writings, ed. Cottingham, Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521358124X (We will read the Discourse on Methond)
Bacon, Selected Philosophical Works, ed. Rose-Mary Sargent, Hackett Publishing Company ISBN: 0872204707 (We will be reading New Organon, Bk. I)
Kass, Towards a More Natural Science; Biology and Human Affairs, Macmillan Free Press New York, 1988. ISBN: 0029170710 (We will read the Preface and Introduction, Chapters 1, 6-12)

Ethics (PHIL JS331)
Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. James W. Ellington Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Third Edition, 1993. ISBN: 087220166X
Mill, Utilitarianism, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Second Edition, 2001. ISBN: 087220605X
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics in Complete Works of Aristotle ,Volume II ed. Jonathan Barnes Princeton       University Press, 1984. Sixth Printing, 1995. ISBN 0691016518
Aquinas, Summa Theologica Prima Secundae (typically Vol. II) (any edition).
John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, (found online at http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0222/_INDEX.HTM

Special Topics in Philosophy (PHIL JS335)
TBA

Literature
Ancient Epic (LIT 1341)
Homer, The Iliad, trans. Lattimore (Univ. of Chicago) ISBN: 0226469409
Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Fitzgerald (Vintage) ISBN: 0374525749
Virgil, The Aeneid, trans. Fitzgerald (Vintage) ISBN: 0679729526

Tragedy and Comedy (LIT 2321)
Shakespeare (all Shakespeare are Signet Classics editions)
     MacBeth ISBN: 9780451526939
     Othello ISBN: 9780451526854
     Hamlet ISBN: 9780451526922
     King Lear ISBN: 9780451526939
     A Midsummer's Night's Dream ISBN: 9780451526960
     The Merchant of Venice ISBN: 9780451526809
     Measure for Measure ISBN: 9780451527158
     The Winter's Tale ISBN: 9780451527141
     The Tempest ISBN: 9780451527127
T.S. Eliot
     Murder in the Cathedral ISBN: 0156632772
     The Cocktail Party ISBN: 0156182890
Aristophanes
      The Complete Plays: The New Translations (trans. Roche [Penquin]) ISBN:9780451214096
Samuel Beckett
      Waiting for Godot ISBN: 0802130348
Aeschylus
     Oresteia, trans. Fagles (Penguin)
Sophocles
      Oedipus the King, trans. Berg and Clay (Oxford University Press)
     The Oedipus Cycle, trans. Fitts and Fitzgerald (Harcourt)

Lyric Poetry (JS341)
Allison et al., The Norton Anthology of Poetry (3rd Edition or newer) ISBN-10: 0393979202

Classical Languages 
Greek I, II, III (GRE 1361, 1362, 2361)
Clyde Pharr, Homeric Greek (Rev. John Wright) ISBN: 0806119373
 
Latin I - III (LAT 1351, 1352, 2351)
Keller and Russell, Learn to Read Latin, ISBN: 9780300102154
Keller and Russell, Learn to Read Latin Workbook, ISBN: 9780300101942

Latin IV (LAT 2352)
TBA


 
Classics
Roman World (IC1371)
Roman Civilization Sourcebook I: The Republic, Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold eds.
Roman Civilization Sourcebook II: The Empire, Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold eds.

Seminar
TBA

Writing Tutorial
TBA

Music Tutorial
Cole, Basil, Music and Morals: A Theological Appraisal of the Moral and Psychological Effects of Music,      1993. ISBN: 081890660X
Portnoy, Julius, The Philosopher and Music: An Historical Outline (any edition)
Randel, Don, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.

Theology
Western Theological Tradition I (THEO 1321)
Henry Bettinson, ed., Documents of the Christian Church ISBN: 0192880713
Vernon Bourke, ed., The Essential Augustine ISBN: 0915144077
St. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica (5 vol. set) ISBN: 870610635
Cyril Richardson, ed., Early Christian Fathers ISBN: 0664227473
St. John of Damascus, On the Divine Images ISBN: 0913836621
Dionysius the Areopagite, The Mystical Theology and The Divine Names ISBN: 0486434591

Western Theological Tradition II (THEO 2321)
Jacques Maritain, Three Reformers, ISBN: 0837128250 (Out of print. May be purchased from bookfinder.com or bibliofinder.com)
Ronald Knox, Enthusiasm ISBN: 0268009325 (May be purchased used from bookfinder.com or bibliofinder.com)
Immanuel Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone ISBN: 0061300675
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy ISBN: 0898705525

St. Thomas (THEO JS323)
Aquinas, Summa Theologica Christian Classics (Can be ordered online or purchased from St. Anthony’s Bookstore (817-921-7224)) ISBN: 0870610635 ISBN-13: 9780870610639

 

Other Required Texts That All Students Are Asked To Possess

Summa Theologica - Christian Classics (Can be ordered online or purchased from St. Anthony’s Bookstore       (817-921-7224)) ISBN: 0870610635 ISBN-13: 9780870610639
Complete Works of Aristotle - (Can be ordered online or purchased from Barnes and Noble) ISBN-10:      0691099502ISBN-13: 978-0691099507
Complete Works of Plato     - (Can be ordered online or purchased from Barnes and Noble) ISBN-10: 0872203492 ISBN-13: 978-0872203495

For out of print or hard to find books, try abebooks.com or bookfinder.com

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