Reading List:

2000

• Tolkien: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
• Ovid: Metamorphoses
• Luther: 95 Theses, The Freedom of a Christian

• Bible: New Testament
• Britannica: Eastern Orthodoxy
• Augustine: Enchiridion, Confessions On Christian Doctrine
• Aristotle: Rhetoric

• Toynbee: A Study of History

• Chesterton:The Everlasting Man
• Belloc:Europe and the Faith, How the Reformation Happened
• Bryan Appleyard: Understanding the Present
• Jacob Bronowski: Ascent of Man
• Josephus: Jewish Antiquities
• Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
• Nag-Hammadi: Gnostic Library of Nag-Hammadi
• Irenaeus: Against Heresies
• Luther: Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, The Babylonian Captivity
• Leonardo: Notebooks
• Copernicus: On The Revolution Of The Spheres
• Kepler: Epitome Of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV-V), Harmonies of the World (Book V)
• Rabelais: Gargantua And Pantagruel

• Montaigne: Essays
• Shakespeare: Plays & Sonnets
• Gilbert: On the Loadstone & Magnetic Bodies
• Galileo: Two New Sciences
• Harvey: Motion Of The Heart & Blood, On the Circulation of the Blood, On the Generation of Animals
• Cervantes: Don Quixote
• Bacon: Advancement of Learning, Novum Organum, New Atlantis
• Descartes: Rules For The Direction Of The Mind, Discourse on Method, Meditations, Objections Against the Meditations, Geometry
• Spinoza: Ethics

• Milton: English Minor Poems, Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, Areopagitica
• Pascal: Provincial Letters, Pensées, Concerning the Vacuum, The Great Experiment, Equilibrium of Liquids, The Weigth of Air, On Geometrical Demostrations, The Arithmetical Triangle, Correspondence with Fermat
• Newton: Principia, Optics
• Huygens: Treatise On Light
• Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration, Second Treatise of Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Berkeley: Principles Of Human Knowledge
• Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• Sterne: Tristam Shandy
• Fielding: Tom Jones
• Montesquieu: Spirit of Laws
• Rousseau: Social Contract, Political Economy, The Origin Of Inequality

• Smith: Wealth Of Nations
• Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Kant: Critique Of Pure Reason, The Metaphysic of Morals, Critique Of Practical Reason, Of Ethics, General Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals, Science of Right, Critique of Judgement
• USA: Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution
• Hamilton: Federalist Papers
• Mill: On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism
• Boswell: Life of Johnson
• Lavoisier: Elements Of Chemistry
• Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat
• Faraday: Electricity

• Hegel: Philosophy Of History, Philosophy Of Right
• Goethe: Faust
• Melville: Moby Dick
• Darwin: Origin Of Species, Descent of Man
• Marx: Communist Manifesto, Capital

• Tolstoy: War And Peace, Anna Karenina
• Dostoevsky: Brothers Karamasov
• James: Psychology
• Freud: Origin and Dev. of Psycho-Analysis, Selected Papers on Hysteria (ch 1-10), Sexual Enlightenment of Children, Future of Psycho-Analytic Therapy, Wild Psycho-Analysis, Interpretation of Dreams, On Narcissism, Instincts and their Vicissitudes, Repression, General Intro. To Psychoanalysis, Beyond The Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology, The Ego and the Id, Inhibitions, Symptons & Anxiety, War and Death, Civilization And Its Discontents, New Introductory Lectures
• Joyce: Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
• Livy: History of the Roman Republic

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