More Spring reading

1. Read for Nietzsche Study:
   • Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche
   • The Antichrist, Nietzsche
   • Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche, books I & II
   • On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche
   • Total Presence, Thomas Altizer
   • Nietzsche & Christianity, Karl Jaspers
   • Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology, Mark Taylor
   • Nietzsche, Heidegger (selections)
   • Kierkegaard & Nietzsche, J. Kellenberger
2. Read for Fundamentalism
   • Terror in the Mind of God, Mark Juergensmeyer
   • Islamic Fundamentalism Since 1945, Beverley Milton-Edwards
3. Fun Reading
   • Republic, Plato
   • Apology, Plato
   • Phaedo, Plato
   • Cratylus, Plato
   • Parmenides, Plato
   • Timaeus, Plato
   • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume
4. Misc. Reading
   • Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
   • On Certainty, Wittgenstein
   • Primer on Postmodernism, Stan Grenz
   • Eldest, Christopher Paolini

Almost finished everything required for classes…and one week left.  Also, it looks like i will not be doing both degrees, so the “Reading for Comprehensive Exam” is now “Fun Reading.”  i am finalizing my paper topics today and it looks like they will be on:

• Nietzsche’s (non-)relation to Christianity.  This is for my Nietzsche study and will argue that Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity is no longer applicable to today.
• How fundamentalism influences the mainstream.  This is for my fundamentalism class and will look at how fundamentalist ideologies shape the mainstream counterparts in both Christian and Muslim circles.
• Knowledge without perception.  This is for my epistemology class and will discuss the possibility of knowledge without perception, building off of Plato’s Theaetetus, Hume’s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.