Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
ThislistcontainsthewritingsthathavegenerallybeenheldtobethecoreofWesternintellectualhistory.They
provideanexcellentopportunitytounderstandandcritiquetheinfluencesthathaveshapedWesternculture.
IfyouenjoyedFrancisSchaeffer's"HowShouldWeThenLive,"thislistwillgiveyoutheopportunityto
experiencefirsthandthehistoricalsagahedescribedsowell.Unlessweteachourchildrentounderstandthe
past,wehavenotgiventhemthetoolstocritiquethepresentwithabiblicalworldview.
Thesebookshavebeenorganizedinalooselyhistoricalsequencewithafewexceptionsbeingmadeforpedagogical
reasons.Toprintthistableproperly,pleasesetyourleftandrightmarginstozerounder"pagesetup."
Year
GreatBooks
HistoryTopics
1st
HOMERIliad,Odyssey
AESCHYLUSAgamemnon
Eumenides,LibationBearers
SOPHOCLESOedipusRex
OedipusatColonus,Antigone
ARISTOTLEPoetics
PLUTARCHGreekLives
HERODOTUSTheHistory
PLATOGorgias,Meno,Euthyphro
Apology,Crito,Phaedo
CLEMENTExhortationtoGreeks
DelianLeague
Solon,Lycurgus
Pericles
Alcibiades,Lysander
PersianWar
Thermopylae,Salamis
Marathon,Plataea
DariusI,XerxesI
2nd
THUCYDIDESPeloponnesianWar
PLATORepublic,Theatetus
ARISTOTLEPhysics,DeAnima
Metaphysics,NicomacheanEthics
VIRGILAeneid
PLUTARCHRomanLives
TACITUSAnnals
LUCRETIUSOntheNatureof
Things
ATHANASIUSOntheIncarnation
PeloponnesianWar
PhilipII,Alexander
RomanRepublic
Augustus
Caesars
RomanExpansion
Constantine
AUGUSTINEConfessions,Cityof
God
ANSELMProslogium,
Monologium,CurDeusHomo
AQUINASSummaTheologica
DANTEDivineComedy
CHAUCERCanterburyTales
SHAKESPEAREAsYouLikeIt
HenryIV,PartIRichardII
MACHIAVELLIThePrince
Churchfathers
Augustine,Origen
Tertullian
JustinMartyr,
Polycarp
ChurchCouncils
Lyons
Nicaea,
Constantinople
RiseofIslam
HolyRomanEmpire
RomanCatholic
Church
OrthodoxChurch
3rd
Math/Sci.
Algebra1
Life
Science
Euclid's
Elements
Physical
Science
"Euclidian
Geometry"
Biology
Language
ANCIENT
Greek
Hebrew
Latin
4th
CERVANTESDonQuixote
CALVINInstitutes
LUTHERCommentaryonGalatians
BACHSt.MatthewPassion
MONTAIGNEEssays
BACONNovumOrganon
DESCARTESDiscourseon
Method,Meditations
PASCALPensee
MILTONParadiseLost
SPINOZAMonadology,Ethics
HUMETreatiseonHumanNature
VERMEERWomanHoldinga
Balance
SWIFTGulliver'sTravels
AUSTENEmma,Prideand
Prejudice
Crusades
OttomanEmpire
Renaissance
Reformation
30YearsWar
EnglishPolitical
History
RiseofProquizantism
Huguenots
AmericanPuritans
5th
LOCKESecondTreatiseon
Government
ROUSSEAUDiscourse,Social
Contract
SHAKESPEARETheTempest
KANTProlegomena
FoundationofMetaphysicsof
Morals
LOCKETreatiseonGovernment
ROUSSEAUSocialContract
DiscourseontheOriginsof
Inequality
SMITHWealthofNations
TWAINHuckleberryFinn
Americanfoundationaldocuments
TOLSTOYWarandPeace
HEGELPhenomenologyofSpirit
MARXCapital
KIERKEGAARDFearand
Trembling
NIETZSCHEBeyondGoodand
Evil
DOSTOEVSKYBrothers
Karamazov
TOCQUEVILLEDemocracyin
America
LINCOLNSpeeches
FREUDInterpretationofDreams
TheEgoandtheId
HUSSERLPhenomenology
LEWISGodintheDock,Essays
Enlightenment
EnlightenedDespots
FrenchRevolution
AmericanRevolution
RiseofLiberalism
Industrialization
AmericanExpansion
GermanPolitical
History
Napoleon
AmericanCivilWar
Alg.2
Chemistry
PreCalc/
Advanced
Mathematics
PhysicsI
Shakespeare
MODERN
German
French
Spanish