Great Conversation Reading Group
Ninth year’s readings.
1. PLATO: The Sophist
2. THUCYDIDES: The History of the Peloponnesian War [Book VII-VIII]
3. ARISTOTLE: Politics [Book VII-VIII]
4. NEW TESTAMENT [The Gospel According to St. John, The Epistle of Paul the
Apostle to the Romans, The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians]
5. ST. AUGUSTINE: The City of God [Book V, XIX]
6. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part II-II, QQ 1-7]
7. GILBERT: On the Loadstone
8. DESCARTES: Rules for the Direction of the Mind
9. DESCARTES: Geometry
10. PASCAL: The Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids, On
Geometrical Demonstration
11. MONTESQUIEU: The Spirit of Laws [Book I-V, VIII, XI-XII]
12. FARADAY: Experimental Researches in Electricity [Series I-II], A Speculation
Touching Electric Conduction and the Nature of Matter
13. HEGEL: Philosophy of Right [Part III
14. MARX: Capital [Part III-IV]
15. FREUD: Civilization and Its Discontents
16 * APOLLONIUS: On Conic Sections [Book I, Prop. 1-15; Book III, Prop. 42-55]
17 * FIELDING: Tom Jones
18 * FOURIER: Analytical Theory of Heat [Preliminary Discourse, Ch. 1-2]
19** MOLIÈRE – Tartuffe
20** AUSTEN – Emma
21** PLANCK – Scientific Autobiography
22** VEBLEN – The Theory of the Leisure Class
23** JOYCE – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
24** HEMINGWAY – The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber