| Author | Work |
|---|---|
| Parmenides |
On Nature |
| Plato |
Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium |
| Aristotle |
Categories 1-5, 10-14, Physics I-II, On the Soul I, II.1-7, 12, III.1-8, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics I, VII, IX, XII |
| Augustine |
Confessions |
| Aquinas |
Summa Theologiae I.1-13, 75-89, I-II.90-97, De ente et essentia |
| Descartes |
Meditations on First Philosophy, Discourse on Method |
| Leibniz |
Discourse on Metaphysics |
| Locke |
An Essay concerning Human Understanding Intro.; Bk. 1, ch. 1; Bk. 2, ch. 1-13, 19-27, 31-33, Bk. 3, ch. 1-3; Bk. 4, ch. 1-4, 9-11, 18-19 |
| Hume |
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion |
| Rousseau |
First Discourse: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts |
| Kant |
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals |
| Hegel |
Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit |
| Kierkegaard |
Fear and Trembling |
| Mill |
Utilitarianism |
| Nietzsche |
Genealogy of Morals |
| Bergson |
An Introduction to Metaphysics |
| Wittgenstein |
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Heidegger |
"What is Metaphysics?", "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" |
UD students not only read St. Augustine's Confessions in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God -- they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
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