Great Conversation Reading Group
Fourth year’s readings.
1. EURIPIDES: Medea, Hippolytus, Trojan Women, The Bacchantes
2. PLATO: Republic [Book VI-VII]
3. PLATO: Theaetetus
4. ARISTOTLE: Physics [Book IV, Ch. 1-5, 10-14]
5. ARISTOTLE: Metaphysics [Book I, Ch. 1-2; Book IV; Book VI, Ch. 1; Book XI, Ch.
1-4]
6. ST. AUGUSTINE: Confessions [Book IX-XIII]
7. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 16-17, 84-88]
8. MONTAIGNE: Apology for Raymond de Sebonde
9. GALILEO: Two New Sciences [Third Day, through Scholium of Theorem II]
10. BACON: Novum Organum [Preface, Book I]
11. DESCARTES: Discourse on the Method
12. NEWTON: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Prefaces,
Definitions, Axioms, General Scholium]
13. LOCKE: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book II]
14. HUME: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
15. KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Prefaces, Introduction, Transcendental
Aesthetic]
16. MELVILLE: Moby Dick
17. DOSTOEVSKY: The Brothers Karamazov [Part III-IV]
18. JAMES: Principles of Psychology [Ch. XV, XX]
19** CALVIN – Institutes of the Christian Religion [Book III]
20** FRAZER – The Golden Bough [Selections]
21** HEISENBERG – Physics and Philosophy [ch 1 – 6]