Week 1
We are all connected
Reading
The Quadrivium
Stahl, W.H. (1977) Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts, volume II The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, New York: Columbia University Press.
Wagner, D.L. (1983) The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages, Bloomington: Indiana Press.
Ball, J. (2009) Mathmagicians, London: DK.
Boethius, (2006) Boethian Number Theory, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Diop, CA, (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, New York, Lawrence Hill, pp. 231, 236-7, 275-6, 279
Week 2
The Sound of Music (1)
Reading
Plato, (1997) Republic in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company
Plato (1997) The Laws in Plato Complete Works, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company
Aristotle, Politics, in (1984) The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume Two, Book VIII chapters 5-7 New Jersey, Princeton University Press
Wider reading
Augustine (2005) Confessions, London: Penguin Classics Book X
Boethius (1989) Fundamentals of Music, London: Yale University Press
Augustine, St Augustine De Musica, London: The orthological Institute pp 107-20, 122-4
Lippman, E. (1992) A History of Western Musical Aesthetics, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press,
Week 3
The Sound of Music (2)
Reading
Bloom, A. (1987) The Closing of the American Mind, New York, Simon and Shuster Paperbacks pp68-88
Nietzsche, F. (2000) The Birth of Tragedy, New York, Oxford University Press, pp19-25, 86 – 90
Wider Reading
Barenboim, D. (2009) Everything is Connected, London, Phoenix
Bowie, A. (2007) Music, Philosophy, and Modernity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Nietzsche, F. (2007) Twilight of the Idols, Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions Limited, pp53-54
Leppert, R. &McClary, S. (eds) Music and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Week 4
No lecture
Week 5
Timeaus and the World Soul
Reading
Brisson, L &Meyerstein, F.W. (1995) Inventing the Universe, Albany: State University of New York Press
Cannon, B. Johnson, A. Waite, W. (1960) The Art of Music, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Lindberg, D.C. (2007) The Beginnings of Western Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Lippman, E. (1992) A History of Western Musical Aesthetics Nebraska: University Press
Plato, (2008) Timeaus and Critias, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Wider reading
Diop, C. A. (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, New York: Lawrence Hill
Godwin, J. (1993) The Harmony of the Spheres, Rochester, Inner Traditions International, pp. 60-63
Wright, M.R. (1995) Cosmology in Antiquity, New York: Routledge, pp. 3-6, 56-7.
Week 6
‘All things known have number’
Reading
Ferguson, K. (2008) Pythagoras, His Lives and the Legacy of the Universe, New York: Walker
Publishing Company, Inc.
Ficino, M (1996) Meditations on the Soul, Rochester: Inner Traditions International
Hegel, G.W.F. (2004) Hegel’s Philosophy of History Oxford: Oxford University Press
Hegel, G.W.F. (1974) Hegel’s Aesthetics Oxford: Clarendon Press
Wider reading
Fauvel, J. Flood, R. and Wilson, R. (2003) Music and Mathematics, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Heller-roazen, Daniel, (2011) The Fifth Hammer-Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the world, Massachusetts: MIT Press
Joost-Gaugier, C.L. (2007) Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, New York: Cornell University Press
Weil, S. (1998) Intimations of Christianity Among the Greeks, London: Routledge, chapter XI
Week 7
Harmony of the Spheres
Reading
Plato (1987) The Republic London: Penguin
Macrobius (1952) Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, New York: Columbia University Press pp69-75, pp189-200
Shakespeare (1993) The Merchant of Venice, Oxford: University Press
Milton, J. (1998) John Milton: The Complete Works London: Penguin
Wider reading
Godwin, J. (1999) The Harmony of the Spheres Rochester: Inner Traditions International
Week 8:
Hebrew Trivium
Reading
The Hebrew Bible: Job 32-41; Proverbs 26; Isaiah 44:6-20, Amos
www.biblegateway.com
E. LaB. Cherbonnier, ‘The Logic of Biblical Anthropomorphism’, The Harvard Theological Review, 55.3 (1962), 187-206.
Samuel M. Edelman, ‘Ancient Traditions, Modern Needs: An Introduction to Jewish Rhetoric’, Journal of Communication and Religion, 26.2 (2003), 113-125
Week 9:
Hebrew Quadrivium
Reading
- Geometry
The Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings 6-7 (2 Chronicles 3-4); Ezekiel 40-43
- Music
The Hebrew Bible: Exodus 15; Psalm 33, 57, 92, 98, 149, 150
- Astronomy
The Hebrew Bible: Genesis 1, 15:1-5; Job 38; Psalms
David Curzon, ‘The Genesis of Modern Science’, Jewish Ideas Daily (October 18th, 2011)
Week 10
Science and religion as liberal arts education
The Trivium
Stahl, W.H. (1977) Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts, volume II The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, New York: Columbia University Press.
Wagner, D.L. (1983) The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages, Bloomington: Indiana Press.
Augustine, (2009) On Christian Doctrine, New York: Dover Publications
Wider reading
Abelson, P. (1906) The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Medieval Culture, New York: Teachers College.
Isidore of Seville, (2005) Etymologies, Vermont: Medieval MS.
Ridder-Symoens, H. de (1992) A History of The University in Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Godwin, J. (1993) The Harmony of the Spheres, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions.
Calter, P. A. (2008) Squaring the Circle, New York: Key College Publishing.
Michell, J. (2008)The Dimensions of Paradise, Rochester: Inner Traditions.
Joseph, S. M. (2002) The Trivium, Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books.
Golden Ratio websites:
Week 11-12
The God Question
Reading
Aristotle, (1984) The Complete Works of Aristotle volume 2, ed. J. Barnes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 2392 (See also
Cicero, (1998) The Nature of the Gods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Seneca, (1995) ‘On the Private Life’ in Moral and Political Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Melanchthon, P. (1999) Orations on Philosophy and Education, Cambridge University Press, p. 106.
Sagan, C. (2006) The Varieties of Scientific Experience, London, Penguin, pp. 1-2, 41-2, 98-102, 122-3, 148-65.
Hawking, S (1988) A Brief History of Time, London, Bantam, Introduction.
Einstein, ‘Religion and Science’ http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm
Otto, R. (1926) The Idea of the Holy, Oxford University Press, pp. 92-3, 112-14.
Jammer, M. (2002) Einstein and Religion, Princeton, Princeton UP, pp. 92-3.
Kant, I. (1956) Critique of Practical Reason, New York, Macmillan, p. 166.
Kant, I. (1989) Critique of Judgement, Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. 106, 110-14.
Wider reading
Ansbro, J.J. (1984) Martin Luther King Jnr, The Making of a Mind, New York, Orbis Books, pp. 40-51.
Big Band and God