Great Conversation Reading Group
Fifth year’s readings.
1. PLATO: Phaedo
2. ARISTOTLE: Categories
3. ARISTOTLE: On the Soul [Book II, Ch. 1-3; Book III]
4. HIPPOCRATES: The Oath; On Ancient Medicine; On Airs, Waters, and Places;
The Book of Prognostics; Of the Epidemics; The Law; On the Sacred Disease
5. GALEN: On the Natural Faculties
6. VIRGIL: The Aeneid
7. PTOLEMY: The Almagest [Book I, Ch. 1-8]
8. COPERNICUS: Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres [Introduction—Book I-
Ch. 11]
9. KEPLER: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy [Book IV, Part II, Ch. 1-2]
10. PLOTINUS: Sixth Ennead
11. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 75-76, 78-79]
12. DANTE: The Divine Comedy [Hell]
13. HARVEY: The Motion of the Heart and Blood
14. CERVANTES: Don Quixote [Part I]
15. SPINOZA: Ethics [Part II]
16. BERKELEY: The Principles of Human Knowledge
17. KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Analytic]
18. DARWIN: The Origin of Species [Introduction—Ch. 6, Ch. 15]
19. TOLSTOY: War and Peace [Book I-VIII]
20. JAMES: Principles of Psychology [Ch. XXVIII]
21** DEWEY – Experience and Education
22** WADDINGTON – The Nature of Life
23** ORWELL – Animal Farm