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Santa Fe Seminar Reading List Schedule

Seminar classes meet on Monday and Thursday evenings. To help students prepare in advance of each class, reading assignment schedules are provided below.

Seminar Reading Lists

These lists may be subject to change. Please always check with tutors or cross-reference with the paper reading list distributed by the dean's office

Fall 2026

Please see below for an overview of seminar readings. Printable reading lists schedules with information on specific readings are available on mySJC. To access the schedule, login using your mySJC credentials, click on the “Students,” “Staff,” or “Faculty” tab and then select “Student Reading Lists” on the left-hand navigation.

Date Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior
Aug. 27 Homer:
Iliad		 Hebrew Bible
Genesis		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoy:
War and Peace
Aug. 31 Homer:
Iliad		 Hebrew Bible
Genesis		 Cervantes:
Don Quixote		 Tolstoy:
War and Peace
Sept. 3 Homer:
Iliad		 Hebrew Bible
Genesis		 Descartes:
Meditations		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 7 Homer:
Iliad		 Hebrew Bible
Exodus		 Descartes:
Meditations		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 10 Homer:
Odyssey		 Hebrew Bible
Deuteronomy		 Pascal:
Pensées		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 14 Homer:
Odyssey		 Hebrew Bible
Samuel; Kings; Chronicles		 Pascal:
Pensées		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 17 Homer:
Odyssey		 Hebrew Bible
Psalms		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Hegel:
Phenomenology of Spirit
Sept. 21 Aeschylus:
Agamemnon		 Hebrew Bible
Jeremiah and Jonah		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Philosophy of History
Sept. 24 Aeschylus:
Libation Bearers; Eumenides		 Hebrew Bible
Job		 Milton:
Paradise Lost		 Marx:
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts; Theses on Feuerbach
Sept. 28 Herodotus:
Histories		 Livy:
The Early History of Rome		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Marx:
On the Jewish Question, Part I; The German Ideology, Part I
Oct. 1 Herodotus:
Histories		 Plutarch:
Lives, Alexander, Cato the Younger, and Caesar		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling
Oct. 5 Herodotus:
Histories		 Plutarch:
Antony and Brutus		 Hobbes:
Leviathan		 Kierkegaard:
Fear and Trembling
Oct. 8 Plato:
Meno		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political Treatise		 Kierkegaard:
Sickness Unto Death Preface
Oct. 12 Plato:
Gorgias		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Spinoza:
Theologico-Political Treatise		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Oct. 15 Plato:
Gorgias		 Virgil:
Aeneid		 Locke:
Second Treatise of Government		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Oct. 19 Sophocles:
Antigone		 Tacitus:
Annals		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Oct. 22 Plato:
Republic		 Tacitus:
Annals		 Rousseau:
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality		 Nietzsche:
Beyond Good and Evil
Oct. 26 Plato:
Republic		 Epictetus:
Discourses		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Oct. 29 Plato:
Republic		 New Testament
Matthew		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 2 Plato:
Republic		 New Testament
John, I John		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 5 Plato:
Republic		 New Testament
Acts		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 9 Plato:
Republic		 New Testament
Romans		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 12 Plato:
Republic		 New Testament
I Corinthians		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 16 Aristophanes:
Clouds		 Aristotle:
On the Soul		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 19 Plato:
Apology		 Aristotle:
On the Soul		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 23 Plato:
Crito		 Plotinus:
Enneads		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Nov. 30 Plato:
Phaedo		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Dec. 3 Plato:
Phaedo		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Dec. 7 Plato:
Theaetetus		 Augustine:
Confessions		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Dec. 10 Plato:
Theaetetus		 Maimonides:
Guide of the Perplexed		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Dec. 14 Sophocles:
Oedipus Rex		 Maimonides:
Guide of the Perplexed		 Preceptorials Preceptorials
Dec. 17 Aeschylus:
Prometheus Bound		 Maimonides:
Guide of the Perplexed		 Preceptorials Preceptorials