i want to read all the books in the world
but never do
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Hi Muza,
May I humbly suggest the following reading list:
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Plato: Ion, Republic, Symposium
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Herodotus: Histories
Aristotle: Poetics, Rhetoric
Plutarch: Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Aristides, Alexander)
Euripides: Hippolytus
Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
Aristophanes: The Birds, The Clouds
Aristotle: Parts of Animals
Galen: On the Natural Faculties
Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, On Animal Generation
Mendel: Plant Hybridization
Plato: Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Porphyry: On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
Aristotle: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics
Vergil: Aeneid
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Cicero: Offices
Plutarch: Lives (Marcellus, Tiberius & Caius Gracchus, Marius, Sylla, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Brutus
Tacitus: Annals
Epictetus: Manual
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
Dante: Divine Comedy
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Spencer: Faerie Queen
Plato: Timaeus
Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption
Aristotle: On the Soul
Gaunilo: On Behalf of the Fool
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
Bacon: The Great Instauration
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Sonnets
Montaigne: Essays
Descartes: Discourse on Method, Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Hobbes: Leviathan
Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay on Civil Goverment
Berkeley: Treatise Concerning Human Understanding
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Milton: Paradise Lost
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Corneille: Le Cid
Racine: Phaedre
Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Hamilton: Federalist Papers
Smith: Wealth of Nations
Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
Boethius: On Music
Gustin: Tonality
Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
Galileo: Two New Sciences
Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Tolstoy: War and Peace
Goethe: Faust
Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, Philosophy of History
Flaubert: Three Tales
J.S. Mill: Utilitarianism
Melville: Billy Budd
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Austen: Emma
Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Jung: Analytical Psychology
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
Ibsen: A Doll's House
Dostoyevsky: Brothers Karamazov
Eliot: Ash Wednesday, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land
Plato: Phaedrus
Vico: The New Science
Tocqueville: Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Husserl: The Idea of Phenomenology
Lincoln and Douglas: Debates
Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
Jan Gullberg: Mathematics - From the Birth of Numbers
U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence (get just the text without commentaries)
Cheers,
CD