Great Conversation Reading Group
Seventh year’s readings.
1. OLD TESTAMENT [Job, Isaiah, Amos]
2. PLATO: Symposium
3. PLATO: Philebus
4. ARISTOTLE: Ethics [Book VIII-X]
5. ARCHIMEDES: Measurement of a Circle, The Equilibrium of Planes [Book I],
The Sand-Reckoner, On Floating Bodies [Book I]
6. EPICTETUS: Discourses
7. PLOTINUS: First Ennead
8. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 1-5]
9. DANTE: The Divine Comedy [Paradise]
10. RABELAIS: Gargantual and Pantagruel [Book III-IV]
11. SHAKESPEARE: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus
12. GALILEO: Two New Sciences [First Day]
13. SPINOZA: Ethics [Part IV-V]
14. NEWTON: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Book III, Rules],
Optics [Book I, Part I; Book III, Queries]
15. HUYGENS: Treatise on Light
16. KANT: Critique of Practical Reason
17. KANT: Critique of Judgment [Critique of Aesthetic Judgment]
18. MILL: Utilitarianism
19** WEBER – Essays in Sociology [Part III]
20** PROUST – Swann in Love
21** BRECHT – Mother Courage and Her Children