OK, new to-do list (no particular order) for Spring quarter!
- Finalize adaptation of a plugin for phpBB.
- Read for Knowledge Problems:
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes
- Theaetetus, Plato
- Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
- Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein
- Read for Nietzsche Study:
- Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche
- The Antichrist, Nietzsche
- On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
- The Gay Science, Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
- Nietzsche and Christianity, Karl Jaspers
- Total Presence, Thomas Altizer
- Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology, Mark Taylor
- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, J. Kellenberger
- Read for Fundamentalism
- Terror in the Mind of God, Mark Juergensmeyer
- Islamic Fundamentalism Since 1945, Beverley Milton-Edwards
- The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New
World Disorder, Bassam Tibi - Fundamentalism and American Culture : The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925, George Marsden
- Read for Comprehensive Exam
- Republic, Plato
- Apology, Plato
- Phaedo, Plato
- Cratylus, Plato
- Parmenides, Plato
- Timaeus, Plato
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume
- Misc. Reading
- Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- On Certainty, Wittgenstein
- Primer on Postmodernism, Stan Grenz
- Eldest, Christopher Paolini
i’m removing a couple of books to focus on class texts. i’ll read the others at a later date. Also, i am liking this list stuff, so i will continue doing during each “session” (Winter quarter, Spring quarter, Summer break, Fall quarter, Winter break) as it helps keep me on track with my readings.
For the fundamentalism you might want to read some Sayyid Qutb. A lot of Al Queda’s intellectual underpinnings result from his more austere interpretation of Islam. I’ve read “Social Justice in Islam.”