Great Conversation Reading Group
Sixth year’s readings.
1. OLD TESTAMENT [Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy]
2. HOMER: The Odyssey
3. PLATO: Laws [Book X]
4. ARISTOTLE: Metaphysics [Book XII]
5. TACITUS: The Histories
6. PLOTINUS: Fifth Ennead
7. ST. AUGUSTINE: The City of God [Book XV-XVIII]
8. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 1-13]
9. DANTE: The Divine Comedy [Purgatory]
10. SHAKESPEARE: Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It,
Twelfth Night
11. SPINOZA: Ethics [Part I]
12. MILTON: Samson Agonistes
13. PASCAL: The Provincial Letters
14. LOCKE: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [Book IV]
15. GIBBON: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Ch. 1-5, General
Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West]
16. KANT: Critique of Pure Reason [Transcendental Dialectic]
17. HEGEL: Philosophy of History [Introduction]
18. TOLSTOY: War and Peace [Book IX-XV, Epilogues]
19** KIERKEGAARD â Fear and Trembling
20** HUIZINGA â The Waning of the Middle Ages [I – X]
21** SHAW â Saint Joan