greek civilisation and the classical liberal arts

roman, medieval and renaissance periods

the enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries

  • cervantes - don quixote
  • galileo - two new sciences
  • hobbes - leviathan
  • descartes
    • meditations
    • rules for the direction of the mind
  • milton - paradise lost
  • la rochefoucauld - maximes
  • la fontaine - fables
  • pascal- pensees
  • huygens
    • treatise on light
    • on the movement of bodies by impact
  • eliot - middlemarch
  • spinoza - theological-political treatise
  • locke - second treatise of government
  • racine - phaedre
  • newton - principia mathematica
  • leibniz
    • monadology
    • discourse on metaphysics
    • essay on dynamics
    • philosophical essays
    • principles of nature and grace
  • swift - gulliver's travels
  • hume - treatise of human nature
  • rousseau
    • social contract
    • the origin of inequality
  • moliere - le misanthrope
  • adam smith - wealth of nations
  • kant
    • critique of pure reason
    • foundations of the metaphysics of morals
  • mozart - don giovanni
  • jane austen - pride and prejudice
  • dedekind - essay on the theory of numbers
  • articles of confederaion
  • declaration of independence
  • constitution of the united states of america
  • hamilton, jay and madison - the federalist
  • twain - the adventures of huckleberry finn
  • wordsworth - the two part prelude of 1799

the modern world in the 19th and 20th centuries

  • goethe - faust
  • darwin - origin of species
  • hegel - phenomenology of mind
  • lobachevsky - theory of parallels
  • tocqueville - democracy in america
  • lincoln - selected speeches
  • frederick douglass - selected species
  • kierkegaard
    • philosophical fragments
    • fear and trembling
  • wagner - tristan und isolde
  • marx
    • capital, political and economic manuscripts of 1844
    • the german ideology
  • dostoevsky - the brothers karamazov
  • tolstoy - war and peace
  • melville - benito cereno
  • o'connor - selected stories
  • william james:
    • psychology
    • briefer course
  • nietzche - beyond good and evil
  • freud - introductory lectures on psychoanalysis
  • booker t. washington - selected writings
  • dubois - the souls of black folk
  • husserl - crisis of the european sciences
  • heidegger - basic writings
  • conrad - heart of darkness
  • faulkner - go down moses
  • flaubert - un coeur simple
  • woolf - mrs dalloway
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