Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler (1972 edition)

1. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus: Tragedies
4. Sophocles: Tragedies
5. Herodotus: Histories
6. Euripides: Tragedies
7. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates: Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes: Comedies
10. Plato: Dialogues
11. Aristotle: Works
12. Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid: Elements
14. Archimedes: Works
15. Apollonius of Perga: Conic Sections
16. Cicero: Works
17. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil: Works
19. Horace: Works
20. Livy: History of Rome
21. Ovid: Works
22. Plutarch: Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus: Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus: Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy: Almagest
27. Lucian: Works
28. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
29. Galen: On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus: The Enneads
32. St. Augustine: On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njál
36. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More: Utopia
44. Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne: Essays
48. William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon: Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare: Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
57. René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton: Works
59. Molière: Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics
63. John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
67. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver’s Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve: The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
76. David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79. Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
80. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
82. James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers
85. Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth: Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma
92. Carl von Clausewitz: On War
93. Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
94. Lord Byron: Don Juan
95. Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
96. Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy
99. Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
102. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
103. John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
104. Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
105. Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
106. Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden
108. Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto
109. George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch
110. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
112. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories
113. Henrik Ibsen: Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
115. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
116. William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121. George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces
122. Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
123. Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
124. John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry
125. Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
126. George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
127. Lenin: The State and Revolution
128. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
129. Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
130. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
131. Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
132. James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
133. Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
134. Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle
135. Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
136. Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

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Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler

Alex G (Aleksandr Golovatyi)

Jun 25, 2019 (Medium.com)

1. Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus: Tragedies
4. Sophocles: Tragedies
5. Herodotus: Histories
6. Euripides: Tragedies
7. Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates: Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes: Comedies
10. Plato: Dialogues
11. Aristotle: Works
12. Epicurus: Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid: Elements
14. Archimedes: Works
15. Apollonius of Perga: Conic Sections
16. Cicero: Works
17. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil: Works
19. Horace: Works
20. Livy: History of Rome
21. Ovid: Works
22. Plutarch: Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus: Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus: Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy: Almagest
27. Lucian: Works
28. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
29. Galen: On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus: The Enneads
32. St. Augustine: On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njál
36. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More: Utopia
44. Martin Luther: Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne: Essays
48. William Gilbert: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon: Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare: Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
57. René Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton: Works
59. Molière: Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal: The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics
63. John Locke: Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine: Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding; Monadology
67. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver’s Travels;A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve: The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
76. David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
77. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract
78. Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
79. Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
80. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
81. Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
82. James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.
83. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
84. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers
85. Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
86. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth
87. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
88. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
89. William Wordsworth: Poems
90. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria
91. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma
92. Carl von Clausewitz: On War
93. Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
94. Lord Byron: Don Juan
95. Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism
96. Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity
97. Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology
98. Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy
99. Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet
100. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal
101. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
102. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
103. John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography
104. Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
105. Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times
106. Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
107. Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden
108. Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto
109. George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch
110. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
111. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
112. Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories
113. Henrik Ibsen: Plays
114. Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales
115. Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger
116. William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism
117. Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors
118. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power
119. Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method
120. Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
121. George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces
122. Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography
123. Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
124. John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry
125. Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
126. George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places
127. Lenin: The State and Revolution
128. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
129. Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
130. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
131. Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics
132. James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
133. Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
134. Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle
135. Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
136. Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
137. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

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Ten Year Reading Plan

 ANDREW  JUNE 14, 2020

Ten Years of Reading in Great Books of the Western World

Mortimer Adler, along with Encyclopædia Britannica, put out a series of books called the Great Books of the Western World. While you’re favorite classic may be missing, it’s still an impressive set of books. It ranges from Homer to William James. That’s c. 700 BC to 1900. I’m sure that other books after 1900 could qualify for “classic” status but I think the philosophy behind the series was to make them as cheap as possibly for the average person to invest in. That means the book had to be in the public domain. That also means that the translations of the original text into English also had to be in the public domain. As you get deeper & deeper (& deeper) into these classics, it might be worth it to look at different translations. I find a lot of them were done in the Victorian era which means that a lot of the language & subject matter of the books might be bowdlerized according to Victorian Era sensibilities, which as you well may know were very prudish. Anyway, the list & the original set of books are a fantastic place to start.

Adler & his crew created a reading list that would take approximately 10 years to get through (more if you take copious notes like me). Anyway, it’s a great way to get a variety across time, across different subjects & across different countries. I recommend it highly – obviously since this my hobby.

P.S. My family & I have moved from the United States to Great Britain. Sadly, the complete series of books didn’t make the trip & are sitting in my parents’ attic. I am picking away at this here & there as I’ve been able to acquire the books from charity shops like Oxfam & such for £2 or £3 a piece.

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N.B.! I’m in the process of migrating these notes to another domain, Great Books of the Western World.

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First Year

1. Plato: Apology, Crito
   • Apology
     • 2nd Read-through
   • Crito
     • 2nd Read-through
2. Aristophanes: Clouds, Lysistrata
   • Clouds
   • Lysistrata
3. Plato: Republic [Book I-II]
   • Book I
   • Book II
4. Aristotle: Ethics [Book I]
   • Book I
5. Aristotle: Politics [Book I]
   • Book I
6. Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans [Lycurgus, Numa Pompilius, Lycurgus & Numa Compared, Alexander, Caesar]
   • Lycurgus
   • Numa Pompilius
   • Lycurgus & Numa Compared
   • Alexander
   • Caesar
7. New Testament [The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Acts of the Apostles]
   • The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
   • The Acts of the Apostles
8. St. Augustine: Confessions [Book I-VIII]
   • Book I-VIII
9. Machiavelli: The Prince
   • The Prince
10. Rabelais: Gargantua & Pantagruel [Book I-II]
    • Book I
    • Book II
11. Montaigne: Essays [Of Custom, & That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received; Of Pedantry; Of the Education of Children; That It Is Folly to Measure Truth & Error by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals; That the Relish of Good & Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Upon Some Verses of Virgil]
    • Of Custom, & That We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received
    • Of Pedantry
    • Of the Education of Children
    • That It Is Folly to Measure Truth & Error by Our Own Capacity
    • Of Cannibals
    • That the Relish of Good & Evil Depends in a Great Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them
    • Upon Some Verses of Virgil
12. Shakespeare: Hamlet
    • Hamlet
13. Locke: Concerning Civil Government [Second Essay]
    • Second Essay
14. Rousseau: The Social Contract [Book I-II]
    • Book I
    • Book II
15. Gibbon: The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch. 15-16]
    • Ch. 15 – The Progress of the Christian Religion, and the Sentiments, Manners, Numbers, and Condition of the Primitive Christians – Ceremonies, Arts, and Festivals
    • Ch. 16 – The Conduct of the Roman Government towards the Christians, from Reign of Nero to that of Constantine – Persecution of Jews & Christians by Domitian
16. The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Federalist [Numbers 1-10, 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-71]
    • The Declaration of Independence
    • The Constitution of the United States
    • The Federalist 1
    • The Federalist 2
    • The Federalist 3
    • The Federalist 4
    • The Federalist 5
    • The Federalist 6
    • The Federalist 7
    • The Federalist 8
    • The Federalist 9
    • The Federalist 10
    • The Federalist 15
    • The Federalist 31
    • The Federalist 47
    • The Federalist 51
    • The Federalist 68
    • The Federalist 69
    • The Federalist 70
    • The Federalist 71
17. Smith: The Wealth of Nations [Introduction – Book I, Ch. 9]
    • Introduction – Book I, Ch. 9
18. Marx-Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party
    • Manifesto of the Communist Party

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Second Year

1. Homer: The Iliad
   • Book 1
   • Book 2
   • Book 3
   • Book 4
   • Book 5
   • Book 6
   • Book 7
   • Book 8
   • Book 9
   • Book 10
   • Book 11
   • Book 12
   • Book 13
   • Book 14
   • Book 15
   • Book 16
   • Book 17
   • Book 18
   • Book 19
   • Book 20
   • Book 21
   • Book 22
   • Book 23
   • Book 24
2. Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
   • Agamemnon
   • Choephoroe
   • Eumenides
3. Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone
   • Oedipus the King
   • Antigone
4. Herodotus: The History [Book I-II]
   • Book I, “Clio”
     • Trojan War, Candaules & Gyges and Early Croesus Years [1-45]
     • Croesus, Cyrus & the State of Affairs in Greece [45-70]
     • Croesus Turns Toward Persia [71-94]
     • Media Starts [95-106]
     • Astyages & Cyrus [107-122]
     • Harpagus Convinces Cyrus to Take Over Media [123-130]
     • Persian Culture [131-140]
     • Persia v. Ionians & Aeolians [141-176]
     • Cyrus Moves on Babylon [177-200]
     • Cyrus Meets His End Against the Messagetae [201-216]
   • Book II, “Euterpé”
     • The Nile valley and its inhabitants [1-98]
     • History of the Egyptian kings [99-182]
5. Plato: Meno
6. Aristotle: Poetics
7. Aristotle: Ethics [Book II; Book III Ch. 5-12; Book VI Ch.8-13]
   • Book II
   • Book III
   • Book VI
8. Nicomachus: Introduction to Arithmetic
   • Book I
   • Book II
9. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things [Book I-IV]
   • Book I
   • Book II
   • Book III
   • Book IV
10. Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
    • Meditations
11. Hobbes: Leviathan [Part I]
    • Part I – Introduction – Ch. 5
    • Part I – Ch. 6 – Ch. 11
    • Part I – Ch. 12 – Ch. 16
12. Milton: Areopagatica
    • Areopagatica
13. Pascal: Pensées [Numbers 72, 82-83, 100, 128, 131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 273, 277, 282, 289, 298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416, 418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571, 586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644,  673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737, 760, 768, 792-793]
    • Pensées, Parts 2-5
    • Pensées, Parts 6-7
    • Pensées, Parts 9-12
14. Pascal: Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle
    • Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle
15. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
    • Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput (Ch. 1-4)
    • Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput (Ch. 5-8)
    • Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (Ch. 1-4)
    • Part 2: A Voyage to Brobdingnag (Ch. 5-8)
    • Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib & Japan (Ch. 1-3)
    • Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib & Japan (Ch. 4-6)
    • Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib & Japan (Ch. 7-11)
    • Part 4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms (Ch. 1-4)
    • Part 4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms (Ch. 5-8)
    • Part 4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms (Ch. 9-12)
16. Rousseau: A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
17. Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
18. Mill: On Liberty
    • Chapter 1 – Introduction
    • Chapter 2 – Liberty of Thought & Discussion
    • Chapter 3 – Of Individuality as one of the Elements of Well-Being
    • Chapter 4 – Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individuals
    • Chapter 5 – Applications

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Third Year

1. Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
   • Prometheus Bound
2. Herodotus: The History [Book VII-IX]
   • Book VII, “Polymnia”
     • Persian Preparations [1-55]
     • Persians Cross into Europe [56-137]
     • Battle of Thermopylae [138-239]
   • Book VIII, “Urania”
     • Naval Battle of Artemisium [1-39]
     • Naval Battle of Salamis [40-96]
     • Winter [97-144]
   • Book IX, “Calliope”
     • Battle of Platea [1-89]
     • Liberation of Asia Minor [90-113]
     • Foundation of the Athenian Empire [114-122]
3. Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book I-II, V]
   • Book I
     • 1 – The State of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Peloponnesian War
     • 2 – Causes of the War – The Affair of Epidamnus – The Affair of Potidaea
     • 3 – Congress of the Peloponnesian Confederacy at Lacedaemon
     • 4 – From the end of the Persian to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War – The Progress from Supremacy to Empire
     • 5 – Second Congress at Lacedaemon – Preparations for War and Diplomatic Skirmishes – Cylon – Pausanias – Themistocles
   • Book II
     • 6 – Beginning of the Peloponnesian War—First Invasion of Attica—Funeral Oration of Pericles
     • 7 – Second Year of the War—The Plague of Athens—Position and Policy of Pericles—Fall of Potidaea
     • 8 – Third Year of the War—Investment of Plataea—Naval Victories of Phormio—Thracian Irruption into Macedonia under Sitacles
   • Book V
     • 15 – Tenth Year of the War—Death of Cleon and Brasidas—Peace of Nicias
     • 16 – Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese—League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians—Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League
     • 17 – Sixteenth Year of the War—The Melian Conference—Fate of Melos
4. Plato: Statesman
   • Statesman
5. Aristotle: On Interpretation [Ch. 1-10]
   • On Interpretation
6. Aristotle: Politics [Book III-V]
   • Book III
   • Book IV
   • Book V
7. Euclid: Elements [Book I]
8. Tacitus: The Annals
   • Book 1 – A.D. 14-15
     • 1.1‑15 Death and funeral of Augustus; accession of Tiberius.
     • 1.16‑30 Drusus and the mutiny of the Pannonian legions.
     • 1.31‑54 Germanicus and the mutiny of the German legions.
     • 1.55‑71 The war in Germany.
     • 1.72‑81 Intrigues in Rome.
   • Book 2 – A.D. 16-19
     • 2.1‑26 More war in Germany.
     • 2.27‑46 The opposition in Rome to Tiberius: Libo Drusus, Piso, and Asinius Gallus.
     • 2.47‑88 Intrigues in Rome; Tacfarinas’ revolt in Numidia; Germanicus’ grand tour through Asia as special foreign affairs envoy. Piso against Germanicus, and death of Germanicus, poison widely suspected.
   • Book 3 – A.D. 20-22
     • 3.1‑19 Rome after Germanicus: eulogies, intrigues, and adjustment.
     • 3.20‑39 Roman domestic politics and legal matters.
     • 3.40‑55 Revolt in Gaul. Intrigues in Rome.
     • 3.56‑76 Intrigues in Rome: Tiberius against Silanus. Tacfarinas’ revolt in Numidia, continued.
   • Book 4 – A.D. 23-28
     • 4.1‑22 Intrigues in Rome: the continued rise of Sejanus, who poisons Drusus. Prosecutions of C. Silius and others.
     • 4.23‑31 The war against Tacfarinas finally over. More prosecutions.
     • 4.32‑45 The beginning of the fall of Sejanus.
     • 4.46‑56 War in Thrace. Plots set in motion against Agrippina.
     • 4.57‑75 Tiberius abandons the capital for Campania. Fire on the Coelian Hill in Rome. Condemnation of Titius Sabinus.
   • Book 5 – A.D. 29-31 – The death of the dowager Empress Livia
   • Book 6 – A.D. 32-37
     • 6.1‑27 The purges after the fall of Sejanus.
     • 6.28‑51 Parthian War, centered on Armenia. Fire on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Death of Tiberius.
   • Book 11 – A.D. 47-48
     • 11.1‑15 Claudius is emperor. In Rome, Suillius prosecutes many. Turmoil in Armenia.
     • 11.16‑38 Corbulo settles a Frisian revolt. Senatorial rights extended to the provinces. Debaucheries and execution of Messalina.
   • Book 12 – A.D. 48-54
     • 12.1‑40 Claudius remarries. Adjustments with Parthia. Nero adopted. The pomerium enlarged. War in Britain against Caratacus.
     • 12.41‑69 The young Nero groomed to succeed Claudius. Disorders in Armenia. Extravagant inauguration of the draining of Lake Fucinus, which turned out a massive failure. Death of Claudius, maybe by poison.
   • Book 13 – A.D. 54-58
     • 13.1‑30 Nero becomes emperor and starts his slide into lust and cruelty; the murder of Britannicus. Continued trouble with Parthia over Armenia.
     • 13.31‑58 Disaster to Roman arms in Armenia, partly saved by Corbulo. Revolts and wars among the Germans.
   • Book 14 – A.D. 59-62
     • 14.1‑28 Nero murders his mother Agrippina. Nero exhibits himself as a charioteer. Institution of the Neronia. Corbulo composes Armenian difficulties in favor of Rome, at least for the time being.
     • 14.29‑39 In Britain, the Icenian revolt under Boudicca.
     • 14.40‑65 Criminal trials and political purges in Rome. Murder of Rubellius Plautus and of the 20‑year‑old Octavia.
   • Book 15 – A.D. 62-65
     • 15.1‑31 Roman defeat in Armenia, although “spun” as a victory; followed, however, by a further adjustment with Parthia in which the Parthian king Tiridates travels to Rome to become a nominal vassal of Rome.
     • 15.32‑47 Nero exhibits himself as a singer and a harpist. The Great Fire of Rome; Christians are executed as scapegoats.
     • 15.48‑74 Piso’s conspiracy: it fails.
   • Book 16 – A.D. 65-66 – Nero seeks to destroy the Stoic opposition: murder of Paetus and Soranus.
9. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 90-97]
   • Treatise on Law
     • QQ 90 – Of the Essence of Law
     • QQ 91 – Of the Various Kinds of Law
     • QQ 92 – Of the Effects of Law
     • QQ 93 – Of the Eternal Law
     • QQ 94 – Of the Natural Law
     • QQ 95 – Of Human Law
     • QQ 96 – Of the Power of Human Law
     • QQ 97 – Of Change in Laws
10. Chaucer: Troilus & Cressida
    • Book 1
    • Book 2
    • Book 3
    • Book 4
    • Book 5
11. Shakespeare: Macbeth
    • Act I
    • Act II
    • Act III
    • Act IV
    • Act V
      • Summary
12. Milton: Paradise Lost
    • Book 1
    • Book 2
    • Book 3
    • Book 4
    • Book 5
    • Book 6
    • Book 7
    • Book 8
    • Book 9
    • Book 10
    • Book 11
    • Book 12
13. Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book III, Ch. 1-3, 9-11]
    • Book 3, Ch. 1-3
    • Book 3, Ch. 4-8
    • Book 3, Ch. 9-11
14. Kant: Science of Right
    • Introduction
    • Part 1 – Private Right, Chapter 1 – Of the Mode of Having Anything External as One’s Own
    • Part 1 – Private Right, Chapter 2 – The Mode of Acquiring Anything External
    • Part 1 – Private Right, Chapter 3 – Acquisition Conditioned by the Sentence of a Public Judicatory
    • Part 2 – Public Right, The System of those Laws Which Require Public Promulgation – The Principles of Civil Society
    • Part 2 – Public Right, The Right of Nations & International Law
15. Mill: Representative Government [Ch. 1-6]
    • Chapter 1 – To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice
    • Chapter 2 – The Criterion of a Good Form of Government
    • Chapter 3 – That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government
    • Chapter 4 – Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable
    • Chapter 5 – Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies
    • Chapter 6 – Of the Infirmities and Dangers to which Representative Government is Liable
16. Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry [Part I]
17. Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov [Part I-II]
    • Part 1
      • Book 1 – The History of a Family
      • Book 2 – An Unfortunate Gathering
      • Book 3 – The Sensualists
    • Part 2
      • Book 4 – Lacerations
      • Book 5 – Pro & Contra
      • Book 6 – The Russian Monk
18. Freud: The Origin & Development of Psychoanalysis
    • 1st Lecture
    • 2nd Lecture
    • 3rd Lecture
    • 4th Lecture
    • 5th Lecture

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Fourth Year

1. Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, The Bacchantes
   • Medea
   • Hippolytus
   • Trojan Women
   • The Bacchantes
2. Plato: Republic [Book VI-VII]
   • Book VI
   • Book VII
3. Plato: Theaetetus
4. Aristotle: Physics [Book IV, Ch. 1-5, 10-14]
   • Book IV
5. Aristotle: Metaphysics [Book I, Ch. 1-2; Book IV, Book VI, Ch. 1; Book XI, Ch. 1-4]
   • Book I
   • Book IV
   • Book VI
   • Book XI
6. St. Augustine: Confessions [Book IX-XIII]
   • Book IX
   • Book X
   • Book XI
   • Book XII
   • Book XIII
7. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 16-17, 84-88]
8. Montaigne: Apology For Raimond de Sebonde
9. Galileo: Two New Sciences [Third Day, through Scholium of Theorem II]
10. Bacon: Novum Organum [Preface, Book I]
11. Descartes: Discourse on the Method
12. Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Prefaces, Definitions, Axioms, General Scholium]
13. Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book II]
14. Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
15. Kant: Critique of Pure Reason [Prefaces, Introduction, Transcendental Aesthetic]
16. Melville: Moby Dick
17. Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov [Part III-IV]
    • Book 7 – Alyosha
    • Book 8 – Mitya
    • Book 9 – The Preliminary Investigation
    • Book 10 – The Boys
    • Book 11 – Ivan
    • Book 12 – A Judicial Error
    • Epilogue
18. James: Principles of Psychology [Ch. XV, XX]

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Fifth Year

1. Plato: Phaedo
2. Aristotle: Categories
3. Aristotle: On the Soul [Book II, Ch. 1-3; Book III]
   • Book 1
   • Book 2
   • Book 3
4. Hippocrates: The Oath; On Ancient Medicine; On Airs, Waters, & Places; The Book of Prognostics; Of the Epidemics; The Law; On the Sacred Disease
   • The Oath
   • On Ancient Medicine
   • On Airs, Waters, & Places
   • The Book of Prognostics
   • Of the Epidemics
   • The Law
   • On the Sacred Disease
5. Galen: On the Natural Faculties
6. Virgil: The Aeneid
   • Book 1 – The Trojans Reach Carthage
   • Book 2 – Aeneas’s Narration – The Sack of Troy
   • Book 3 – Aeneas’s Narration Continued – His Travels
   • Book 4 – The Tragedy of Dido
   • Book 5 – The Funeral Games
   • Book 6 – The Visit to the Underworld
   • Book 7 – War in Latium
   • Book 8 – The Site of the Future Rome
   • Book 9 – Siege of the Trojan Camp
   • Book 10 – The Relief & Pitched Battle
   • Book 11 – Councils of War: Pitched Battle Again
   • Book 12 – Decision: the Death of Turnus
7. Ptolemy: The Almagest [Book I, Ch. 1-8]; Copernicus: Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres [Introduction – Book I, Ch. 11]; Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy [Book IV, Part II, Ch. 1-2]
8. Plotinus: Sixth Ennead
   • Tractates 1-3
   • Tractates 4-6
   • Tractates 7-9
9. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 75-76, 78-79]
10. Dante: The Divine Comedy [Hell]
    • Canto 1-3
    • Canto 4-6
    • Canto 7-9
    • Canto 10-12
    • Canto 13-15
    • Canto 16-18
    • Canto 19-21
    • Canto 22-24
    • Canto 25-27
    • Canto 28-30
    • Canto 31-34
11. Harvey: The Motion of the Heart & Blood
12. Cervantes: Don Quixote [Part I]
13. Spinoza: Ethics [Part II]
14. Berkeley: The Principles of Human Knowledge
15. Kant: Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Analytic]
16. Darwin: The Origin of the Species [Introduction – Ch. 6, Ch. 15]
17. Tolstoy: War & Peace [Book I-VIII]
18. James: Principles of Psychology [Ch. XXVIII]

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Sixth Year

1. Old Testament [Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy]
   • Genesis
   • Exodus
   • Deuteronomy
2. Homer: The Odyssey
3. Plato: Laws [Book X]
   • Book X
4. Aristotle: Metaphysics [Book XII]
   • Metaphysics
5. Tacitus: The Histories
   • Book 1
     • 1.1‑49 – The short reign of Galba.
     • 1.50‑90 – Otho, now emperor, prepares to take the field against the rival claimant Vitellius.
   • Book 2
     • 2.1‑51 – Otho’s forces are defeated by those of Vitellius at Bedriacum; Otho commits suicide.
     • 2.52‑101 – Vitellius now emperor, but yet another claimant, Vespasian, is raising troops in the Orient.
   • Book 3
     • 3.1‑25 – Vitellius’ forces challenged by Vespasian’s in Italy.
     • 3.26‑62 – Vitellius’ forces give way rather fast, eventually only holding Rome and the Latium.
     • 3.63‑86 – Vitellius murdered in Rome by troops favoring Vespasian.
   • Book 4
     • 4.1‑37 – Batavian units in the Roman army revolt under Civilis.
     • 4.38‑53 – Politics and maneuvering in Vespasian’s Rome and in the eastern theater of operations.
     • 4.54‑79 – The Batavian War with Civilis, continued.
     • 4.80‑89 – A view into the psyche and concerns of Vespasian and his son Domitian.
   • Book 5
     • 5.1‑13 – The beginning of the Judaean War under Titus.
     • 5.14‑26 – The end of the Batavian War, more or less — although the fate of Civilis is left hanging as our manuscripts abruptly fail.
6. Plotinus: Fifth Ennead
   • Tractates 1-3
   • Tractates 4-6
   • Tractates 7-9
7. St. Augustine: The City of God [XV-XVIII]
8. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 1-13]
9. Dante: The Divine Comedy [Purgatory]
   • Canto 1-3
   • Canto 4-6
   • Canto 7-9
   • Canto 10-12
   • Canto 13-15
   • Canto 16-18
   • Canto 19-21
   • Canto 22-24
   • Canto 25-27
   • Canto 28-30
   • Canto 31-33
10. Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night
    • Comedy of Errors
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
    • The Taming of the Shrew
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
    • As You Like It
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
    • Twelfth Night
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
11. Spinoza: Ethics [Part I]
12. Milton: Samson Agonistes
13. Pascal: The Provincial Letters
14. Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book IV]
15. Gibbon: The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch. 1-5, General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West]
    • Introduction
    • Chapter 1 – The Extent and Military Force of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines
    • Chapter 2 – Of the Union and Internal Prosperity of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines
    • Chapter 3 – Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines
    • Chapter 4 – The cruelty, follies, and murder of Commodus — Election of Pertinax — his attempts to reform the State — his assassination by the Prætorian Guards
    • Chapter 5 – Public sale of the empire to Didius Julianus by the Prætorian Guards — Clodius Albinus in Britain, Pescennius Niger in Syria, and Septimius Severus in Pannonia, declare against the murderers of Pertinax — Civil wars, and victory of Severus over his three rivals — Relaxation of discipline — New maxims of government
16. Kant: Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Dialectic]
17. Hegel: Philosophy of History [Introduction]
18. Tolstoy: War & Peace [Book IX-XV, Epilogues]

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Seventh Year

1. Old Testament [Job, Isaiah, Amos]
   • Job
   • Isaiah
   • Amos
2. Plato: Symposium
3. Plato: Philebus
4. Aristotle: Ethics [Book VIII-X]
   • Book VIII
   • Book IX
   • Book X
5. Archimedes: Measurement of a Circle, The Equilibrium of Planes [Book I], The Sand-Reckoner, On Floating Bodies [Book I]
6. Epictetus: Discourses
   • Book I
   • Book II
   • Book III
   • Book IV
7. Plotinus: First Ennead
   • Tractates 1-3
   • Tractates 4-6
   • Tractates 7-9
8. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 1-5]
9. Dante: The Divine Comedy [Paradise]
   • Canto 1-3
   • Canto 4-6
   • Canto 7-9
   • Canto 10-12
   • Canto 13-15
   • Canto 16-18
   • Canto 19-21
   • Canto 22-24
   • Canto 25-27
   • Canto 28-30
   • Canto 31-33
10. Rabelais: Gargantua & Pantagruel [Book III-IV]
11. Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus
    • Julius Caesar
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
    • Antony & Cleopatra
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
    • Coriolanus
      • Act I
      • Act II
      • Act III
      • Act IV
      • Act V
12. Galileo: Two New Sciences [First Day]
13. Spinoza: Ethics [Part IV-V]
14. Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Book III, Rules], Optics [Book I, Part I; Book III, Queries]
15. Huygens: Treatise on Light
16. Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
17. Kant: Critique of Judgment [Critique of Aesthetic Judgment]
18. Mill: Utilitarianism
    • Chapter 1 – General Remarks
    • Chapter 2 – What Utilitarianism Is
    • Chapter 3 – Of the Ultimate Sanction of the Principle of Utility
    • Chapter 4 – Of What Sort of Proof the Principle of Utility is Susceptible
    • Chapter 5 – On the Connection Between Justice & Utility

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Eighth Year

1. Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus
   • Thesmophoriazusae
   • Ecclesiazusae
   • Plutus
2. Plato: Gorgias
3. Aristotle: Ethics [Book V]
   • Book V
4. Aristotle: Rhetoric [Book I, Ch. 1 – Book II, Ch. 1; Book II, Ch. 20 – Book II, Ch. 1; Book III, Ch. 13-19]
5. St. Augustine: On Christian Doctrine
6. Hobbes: Leviathan [Part II]
   • Part 2
     • Chapter 17-19
     • Chapter 20-22
     • Chapter 23-25
     • Chapter 26-28
     • Chapter 29-31
7. Shakespeare: Othello, King Lear
   • Othello
     • Act I
     • Act II
     • Act III
     • Act IV
     • Act V
   • King Lear
     • Act I
     • Act II
     • Act III
     • Act IV
     • Act V
8. Bacon: Advancement of Learning [Book I, Ch. 1 – Book II, Ch. 11]
9. Descartes: Meditations of the First Philosophy
10. Spinoza: Ethics [Part III]
11. Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration
12. Sterne: Tristram Shandy
13. Rousseau: A Discourse on Political Economy
14. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nation [Book II]
15. Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
16. Marx: Capital [Prefaces, Part I-II]
17. Goethe: Faust [Part I]
18. James: Principles of Psychology [Ch. VIII-X]
    • Chapter VIII
    • Chapter IX
    • Chapter X

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Ninth Year

1. Plato: The Sophist
2. Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book VII-VIII]
3. Aristotle: Politics [Books VII-VIII]
4. Apollonius: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Books III, Prop. 42-55]
5. New Testament [The Gospel According to Saint John, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians]
   • The Gospel According to Saint John
   • The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
   • The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
6. St. Augustine: The City of God [Book V, XIX]
7. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part II-II, QQ 1-7]
8. Gilbert: On the Loadstone
9. Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind
10. Descartes: Geometry
11. Pascal: The Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration
12. Fielding: Tom Jones
13. Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]
    • Book 1
    • Book 2
    • Book 3
    • Book 5
    • Book 8
    • Book 11
    • Book 12
14. Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1-2]
15. Faraday: Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction & the Nature of Matter
16. Hegel: Philosophy of Right [Part III]
17. Marx: Capital [Part III-IV]
18. Freud: Civilization & Its Discontents

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Tenth Year

1. Sophocles: Ajax, Electra
   • Ajax
   • Electra
2. Plato: Timaeus
3. Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1 – Book II, Ch. 1], On the Generation of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-23]
4. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI]
5. Virgil: The Eclogues, The Georgics
6. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 65-74]
7. St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 90-102]
8. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales [Prologue, Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Prologue and Tale, Reeve’s Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Friar’s Prologue and Tale, Summoner’s Prologue and Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale]
9. Shakespeare: The Tragedy of King Richard II, The First Part of King Henry IV, The Second of King Henry IV, The Life of King Henry V]
10. Harvey: On the Generation of Animals [Introduction – Exercise 62]
11. Cervantes: Don Quixote [Part II]
12. Kant: Critique of Judgment [Critique of Teleological Judgment]
13. Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson
14. Goethe: Faust [Part II]
15. Darwin: The Descent of Man [Part I; Part III, Ch. 21]
16. Marx: Capital [Part VII-VIII]
17. James: Principles of Psychology [Ch. I, V-VII]
18. Freud: A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis

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Additional Texts from the 2nd Edition

Adler & co. issued a 2nd edition of the books, dropping a few books out of the original series & putting some new ones in. I consider these to be extra credit & fully worthy of my attention. I hope you feel the same.

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First Year

1. Tocqueville – Democracy in America
   • Volume 1, Part 2
     • Chapter 6
     • Chapter 7
     • Chapter 8
2. Ibsen – The Master Builder
   1. Act 1
   2. Act 2
   3. Act 3
3. Schrödinger – What is Life?

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Second Year

1. Voltaire – Candide
   1. Ch. 1-5
   2. Ch. 6-10
   3. Ch. 11-15
   4. Ch. 16-20
   5. Ch. 21-25
   6. Ch. 26-30
2. Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
   1. Ch. 1 – On the Prejudices of Philosophers
   2. Ch. 2 – The Free Spirit
   3. Ch. 3 – What is Religious?
   4. Ch. 4 – Apophthegms and Interludes
   5. Ch. 5 – The Natural History of Morals
   6. Ch. 6 – We Scholars
   7. Ch. 7 – Our Virtues
   8. Ch. 8 – Peoples and Fatherlands
   9. Ch. 9 – What is Noble?
3. Whitehead – Science and the Modern World
   • Chapter 1
   • Chapter 2
   • Chapter 3
   • Chapter 4
   • Chapter 5
   • Chapter 6

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Third Year

1. Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   • Chapters 1-4
   • Chapters 4-8
   • Chapters 9-12
   • Chapters 13-16
   • Chapters 17-20
   • Chapters 21-24
   • Chapters 25-28
   • Chapters 29-32
   • Chapters 33-36
   • Chapters 37-40
   • Chapters 41-43
2. Lévi-Strauss – Structural Anthropology (Selections)
3. Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis
   • Part 1
   • Part 2

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Fourth Year

1. Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book 3)
   • Book 3 – On The Manner Of Receiving The Grace Of Christ, The Benefits Which We Derive From It, And The Effects Which Follow It.
     • Argument.
     • Chapter 1 – What Is Declared Concerning Christ Rendered Profitable To Us By The Secret Operation Of The Spirit.
     • Chapter 2 – Faith Defined, And Its Properties Described.
     • Chapter 3 – On Repentance.
     • Chapter 4 – The Sophistry And Jargon Of The Schools Concerning Repentance, Very Remote From The Purity Of The Gospel. On Confession And Satisfaction.
     • Chapter 5 – Indulgences And Purgatory. The Supplements To Their Doctrine Of Satisfactions.
     • Chapter 6 – The Life Of A Christian. Scriptural Arguments And Exhortations To It.
     • Chapter 7 – Summary Of The Christian Life. Self-Denial.
     • Chapter 8 – Bearing The Cross, Which Is A Branch Of Self-Denial.
     • Chapter 9 – Meditation On The Future Life.
     • Chapter 10 – The Right Use Of The Present Life And Its Supports.
     • Chapter 11 – Justification By Faith. The Name And Thing Defined.
     • Chapter 12 – A Consideration Of The Divine Tribunal, Necessary To A Serious Conviction Of Gratuitous Justification.
     • Chapter 13 – Two Things Necessary To Be Observed In Gratuitous Justification.
2. Frazer – The Golden Bough (Selections)
3. Heisenberg – Physics and Philosophy
   • Chapter 1
   • Chapter 2
   • Chapter 3
   • Chapter 4
   • Chapter 5
   • Chapter 6

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Fifth Year

1. Dewey – Experience and Education
2. Waddington – The Nature of Life
3. Orwell – Animal Farm
   1. Chapter 1
   2. Chapter 2
   3. Chapter 3
   4. Chapter 4
   5. Chapter 5
   6. Chapter 6
   7. Chapter 7
   8. Chapter 8
   9. Chapter 9
   10. Chapter 10

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Sixth Year

1. Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling
2. Huizinga – The Waning of the Middle Ages
   • Chapter 1: The Violent Tenor of Life
   • Chapter 2: Pessimism & the Ideal of the Sublime Life
   • Chapter 3: The Hierarchic Conception of Society
   • Chapter 4: The Idea of Chivalry
   • Chapter 5: The Dream of Heroism & of Love
   • Chapter 6: Orders of Chivalry & Vows
   • Chapter 7: The Political & Military Value of Chivalrous Ideas
   • Chapter 8: Love Formalized
   • Chapter 9: The Conventions of Love
   • Chapter 10: The Idyllic Vision of Life
3. Shaw – Saint Joan
   1. Scene 1
   2. Scene 2
   3. Scene 3
   4. Scene 4
   5. Scene 5
   6. Scene 6

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Seventh Year

1. Weber – Essays in Sociology (Part 3)
2. Proust – Swann in Love
3. Brecht – Mother Courage and Her Children

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Eighth Year

1. Barth – The Word of God and the Word of Man
   • Part 1
   • Part 2
   • Part 3
   • Part 4
2. Bergson – An Introduction to Metaphysics
3. Hardy – A Mathematician’s Apology
4. Kafka – The Metamorphosis

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Ninth Year

• Molière – Tartuffe
  • Act 1
  • Act 2
  • Act 3
  • Act 4
  • Act 5
• Jane Austen – Emma
  • Chapter 1-5
  • Chapter 6-10
  • Chapter 11-15
  • Chapter 16-20
  • Chapter 21-25
  • Chapter 26-30
  • Chapter 31-35
  • Chapter 36-40
  • Chapter 41-45
  • Chapter 46-50
  • Chapter 51-55
• Planck – Scientific Autobiography
• Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Hemingway – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

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Tenth Year

1. Erasmus – In Praise of Folly
2. Huizinga – The Waning of the Middle Ages
   • Chapter 11: The Vision of Death
   • Chapter 12: Religious Thought Crystallizing into Images
   • Chapter 13: Types of Religious Life
   • Chapter 14: Religious Sensibility & Religious Imagination
   • Chapter 15: Symbolism in its Decline
   • Chapter 16: The Effects of Realism
   • Chapter 17: Religious Thought Beyond the Limits of Imagination
   • Chapter 18: Symbolism in its Decline
   • Chapter 19: Art & Life
   • Chapter 20: The Aesthetic Sentiment
   • Chapter 21: Verbal & Plastic Expression Compared, I
   • Chapter 22: Verbal & Plastic Expression Compared, II
   • Chapter 23: The Advent of the New Form
3. Eddington – The Expanding Universe
4. Eliot – The Waste Land