What we are reading : the reading schedule
Please note that 10-year reading plan in
Britannica's Great Books is different in
edition one compared with edition two.
Please refer to the list below as the
definitive list for our group's readings.
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Britannica's Great Books is different in
edition one compared with edition two.
Please refer to the list below as the
definitive list for our group's readings.
(MORE)
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JANUARY FEBRUARY 2010
PLUTARCH - LIVES (Either selections, or in its
entirety.)
MARCH 2010
MACHIAVELLI - THE PRINCE
APRIL 2010
ST. AUGUSTINE: Confessions
[Either in its entirety or Book IX-XIII]
MAY 2010
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Either
Part I, QQ 16-17, 84-88, or alternatively, the entirety
of "A Summa of the Summa", an abridged version of
the entire Summa, edited and abridged by Peter
Kreeft.]
JUNE 2010
CALVIN – Institutes of the Christian Religion [Book
III, or in its entirety]
JULY 2010
MONTAIGNE: Apology for Raymond de Sebonde;
Other Essays [Of Custom, and That We Should Not
Easily Change a Law Received; Of Pedantry; Of the
Education of Children; That It Is Folly to Measure
Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals;
That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great
Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Upon
Some Verses of Virgil]
AUGUST 2010
GALILEO: Two New Sciences [Third Day, through
Scholium of Theorem II]
SEPTEMBER 2010
BACON: Novum Organum [Preface, Book I]
OCTOBER 2010
DESCARTES: Discourse on the Method
NOVEMBER 2010
NEWTON: Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy
[Prefaces, Definitions, Axioms, General Scholium]
DECEMBER 2010
LOCKE: An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
[Book II]
JANUARY 2011
HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding
FEBRUARY MARCH 2011
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Either selections or
in its entirety.]
APRIL 2011
MELVILLE: Moby Dick
PLUTARCH - LIVES (Either selections, or in its
entirety.)
MARCH 2010
MACHIAVELLI - THE PRINCE
APRIL 2010
ST. AUGUSTINE: Confessions
[Either in its entirety or Book IX-XIII]
MAY 2010
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Either
Part I, QQ 16-17, 84-88, or alternatively, the entirety
of "A Summa of the Summa", an abridged version of
the entire Summa, edited and abridged by Peter
Kreeft.]
JUNE 2010
CALVIN – Institutes of the Christian Religion [Book
III, or in its entirety]
JULY 2010
MONTAIGNE: Apology for Raymond de Sebonde;
Other Essays [Of Custom, and That We Should Not
Easily Change a Law Received; Of Pedantry; Of the
Education of Children; That It Is Folly to Measure
Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals;
That the Relish of Good and Evil Depends in a Great
Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Upon
Some Verses of Virgil]
AUGUST 2010
GALILEO: Two New Sciences [Third Day, through
Scholium of Theorem II]
SEPTEMBER 2010
BACON: Novum Organum [Preface, Book I]
OCTOBER 2010
DESCARTES: Discourse on the Method
NOVEMBER 2010
NEWTON: Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy
[Prefaces, Definitions, Axioms, General Scholium]
DECEMBER 2010
LOCKE: An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding
[Book II]
JANUARY 2011
HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding
FEBRUARY MARCH 2011
KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Either selections or
in its entirety.]
APRIL 2011
MELVILLE: Moby Dick