Required Texts

The following texts are required and are available for purchase at the University Bookstore:

Augustine, Confessions (Hackett)

René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (Hackett)

Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream (Penguin)

G.W. Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, Correspondence (Hackett)

Jean de Lery, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (California)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (W.W. Norton)

Francesco Petrarch, The Secret (Bedford)

Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (Regnery)

François Poullain de la Barre, Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises (Chicago)

Ibn Tufayl, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan (Gee Tee Bee)

Other readings (labeled PCOPY on the syllabus) will be distributed as photocopies in class.