Great Books Club READING PLAN:
Ninth Year Reading Selections
September 27, 2015, 5 - 7 PM, Altamonte Springs
Ninth Year
PLATO: The Sophist Vol. 7, pp. 551-579
THUCYDIDES: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book VII-VIII] Vol. 6, pp. 538-593
ARISTOTLE: Politics [Book VII-VIII] Vol. 9, pp. 527-548
APOLLONIUS: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42-55] Vol. 11, pp. 603-624, 780-797
NEW TESTAMENT [The Gospel According to St. John, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians]
ST. AUGUSTINE: The City of God [Book V, XIX] Vol. 18, pp. 207-230, 507-530
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part II-II, QQ 1-7] Vol. 20, pp. 380-416
GILBERT: On the Loadstone Vol. 28, pp. 1-121
DESCARTES: Rules for the Direction of the Mind Vol. 31, pp. 1-40
DESCARTES: Geometry Vol. 31, pp. 295-353
PASCAL: The Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On Geometrical Demonstration Vol. 33, pp. 382-389, 430-446
FIELDING: Tom Jones Vol. 37
MOLIERE: Tartuffe
MONTESQUIEU: The Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII] Vol. 38, pp. 1-33, 51-58, 68-96
FOURIER: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1-2] Vol. 45, pp. 169-251
FARADAY: Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter Vol. 45, pp. 265-302, 850-855
HEGEL: Philosophy of Right [Part III] Vol. 46, pp. 55-114
AUSTEN: Emma
MARX: Capital [Part III-IV] Vol. 50, pp. 85-250
FREUD: Civilization and Its Discontents Vol. 54, pp. 767-802
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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