The Great Books

• "The Iliad"  "The Odyssey"

• "Aeneid"

• "The Divine Comedy"

• "Paradise Lost"

• "Prometheus Bound," "Agamemnon," "Libation Bearers," "Eumenides"

• "Oedipus the Tyrant," "Oedipus at Colonus," "Antigone"

• "Bacchae"

• "Frogs"

• "Poetics"

• "Dr. Faustus"

• "Hamlet," "Othello," "King Lear," "Merchant of Venice," " The Tempest"

• "Mansfield Park"

• "Moby Dick"

• "Crime and Punishment"

• "Go Down, Moses"

• "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (selections)

• "Centesimus Annus"

• "History of the Peloponnesian War"

• "The Early History of Rome"

• "The Consolation of Philosophy"

• "Life of Charlemagne"

• "Utopia"

• "Institutes of the Christian Religion"

• "The 'Philosophe'"  from  "Encyclopdie"

• "What is Enlightenment?"

• "Reflections on the Revolution in France"

• "The Communist Manifesto"

• "Rerum Novarum"

• "Night"

• "A Summary View of the Rights of British America," The Declaration of Independence

• "The Federalist Papers"

• "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"

• The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

• "Autobiography"

• "The Education of Henry Adams"

• Selected Speeches

• "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

• "American Diplomacy"

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

• "Republic," and "Phaedo" or "Symposium"

• "Nichomachean Ethics" (selections), "On the Soul" (selections), "Categories" (selections), "Physics" (selections), "Metaphysics" (selections)

• "Confessions" (selections)

• "Summa Theologiae" I-II, q. 94 a. 2, (natural law) or I-II, qq. 1-5 (man's end), "De ente et essentia," "Super Boetii De Trinitate," q. 5, a. 1

• "Meditations on First Philosophy"

• "Critique of Pure Reason" (selections) or "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics"

• "On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life," "Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense"

• "The Question Concerning Technology" or "What is Metaphysics?" or "The Age of the World-Picture" or "Identity and Difference"

• "Democracy in America"

• The Declaration of Independence

• "The Federalist Papers"

• "Theological Orations"

Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy

Psalms

Isaiah

2 Samuel

2 Maccabees

Gospel of John

Romans

Acts of the Apostles

Gospel of Matthew

• "Confessions"

• "Summa Theologiae" (selections)

• "Heidelberg Disputation," "The Freedom of a Christian"

• "The Augsburg Confession"

• "Institutes of the Christian Religion"

• Letter to the Corinthians

• Letters to the Ephesians, Letters to the Romans

• "On the Incarnation"

• "Against Heresies"

• "Theological Orations"