Topics
Reading list
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Leo Tolstoy
- Spinoza’s “Ethics”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Essays”
- Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”
- Mein Kampf
- Alasdair MacIntyre’s “After Virtue”
- Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” “Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics” and the “Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals”
- Samuel Clarke’s “Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: and Other Writings”
- John Calvin’s “Institutes of Religion”
- Paul Tillich’s “Systematic Theology”
- Karl Barth’s “Dogmatics”
- John Macquarrie’s “Principles of Christian Theology”
- F. H. Bradley’s “Appearance and Reality”
- Bernard Bosanquet’s “What Religion Is”
- Lucretius’ “De Rerum Natura”
- John Locke’s “Reasonableness of Christianity” and “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.”
Bible
- Genesis (Chapters 1–11)
- Isaiah
- Ecclesiastes
- The Gospel of Matthew
- The Gospel of John
Ten years after Oxford:
- Spinoza
- Ernst Bloch
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Martin Heidegger
- Kyoto School of philosophers
- Henry Bugbee
- Paul Wienpahl (“An Unorthodox Lecture”)
- James C. Edwards (“The Plain Sense of Things”)
- Imaoka Shinichiro