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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.   Leader: Marilyn Barnes

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.  Leader:  Anita Fussell

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.  Leader:  Bob Reeves.

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/

May 28, 2009 – Snow date

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