Sunday, June 28, 2020

Starting with the Classics

I have always been intrigued with the classics, but there are few schools that teach directly from the classics. One such school is http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/. Brilliant! I want to go, but I certainly do not have the funds, and hey I am not gettin any younger. (cough 45). But hey, they have published their syllabus...http://www.thomasaquinas.edu/a-liberating-education/syllabus, and while I can't go and debate with the other students...I can read and study the books. Yeah I can do this. And since these are the classics I can find many of these books online. I call that a win!



I like,  everyone else, must start off as a Freshman. Here is the Freshman syllabus





Freshman Year
Theology

The Holy Bible



Philosophy

Plato Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo

Porphyry On the Predicaments (Isagoge)

Aristotle Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics,  Topics 

 St. Thomas Aquinas Proem to the Posterior Analytics



Natural Science

Aristotle Parts of Animals

 DeKoninck The Lifeless World of Biology

Fabre Souvenirs Entomologiques

Galen On the Natural Faculties 

Harvey On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

Linnaeus Systema Naturae

Pascal On the Equilibrium of Liquids

Archimedes On Floating Bodies

Mendel Plant Hybridization

 Various AuthorsScientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et alia 

Measurements Manual



Mathematics

Euclid Elements



Language Wheelock Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors

Nesfield Aids to the Study and Composition of English



Seminar

Homer Iliad, Odyssey

Plato Ion, Symposium, Republic

Aeschylus Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers,Eumenides

Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus,Antigone

 Herodotus Histories

Plutarch Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades,  Alexander) 

Aristotle Poetics, Rhetoric

Euripides Hippolytus

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Aristophanes The Birds, The Clouds



I totally cribbed the list from the webpage. I am not sure where to start perhaps with Plato's Meno and The Bible.