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Course Description

This is the Spring course of Great Books reading and discussion at Morningstar, provided through the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago’s Graham School. This course explores issues of human nature and humans’ relationship with nature and with society. Students should read the assigned passages before class begins, and bring the text to class since we will be referring to it and reading sections aloud during class.

This course is restricted to Morningstar employees only. Students must have a Morningstar.com email address to register for this course.

Notes

Required Texts:

  1. Plato Apology in Five Dialogues, trans. by GMA Grube, Hackett ISBN 978-0872206335
  2. Machiavelli The Prince, trans. Leo Paul S. de Alvarez, Waveland ISBN 978-0881334449
  3. Walden (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) 150th Anniversary edition with a New introduction by John Updike, ed. J. Lyndon Shanley (Princeton University Press) 2004 ISBN 978-0691096124
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