Great Conversation Reading Group
Tenth year’s readings.
1. SOPHOCLES: Ajax, Electra
2. PLATO: Timaeus
3. ARISTOTLE: On the Parts of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1—Book II, Ch. 1], On the
Generation of Animals [Book I, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-23]
4. LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things [Book V-VI]
5. VIRGIL: The Eclogues, The Georgics
6. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 65-74]
7. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I, QQ 90-102]
8. CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales [Prologue, Knight’s Tale, Miller’s Prologue and
Tale, Reeve’s Prologue and Tale, Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, Friar’s
Prologue and Tale, Summoner’s Prologue and Tale, Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale]
9. SHAKESPEARE: The Tragedy of King Richard II, The First Part of King Henry
IV, The Second Part of King Henry IV, The Life of King Henry V
10. HARVEY: On the Generation of Animals [Introduction—Exercise 62]
11. CERVANTES: Don Quixote [Part II]
12. KANT: Critique of Judgement [Critique of Teleological Judgement]
13. GOETHE: Faust [Part II]
14. DARWIN: The Descent of Man [Part I; Part III, Ch. 21]
15. MARX: Capital [Part VII-VIII]
16. JAMES: Principles of Psychology [Ch. I, V-VII]
17. FREUD: A General Introduction to Psycho-analysis
18 * BOSWELL: The Life of Samuel Johnson
19** ERASMUS – In Praise of Folly
20** HUIZINGA – The Waning of the Middle Ages [XI – XXIII]
21** EDDINGTON – The Expanding Universe
22** T.S. ELIOT – The Waste Land