The Great Books

One of my goals for the next year is to complete a survey of world history via the great books. I am currently up to the Roman Empire. Hopefully, the next ten months or so will see me through the Early Church, Medieval literature, Enlightenment philosophy, the Revolutionary war, all the way up to Marx, Darwin, Nietzche and Freud.

I'm posting my reading list here to hold myself accountable. I will try to post updates over the course of my journey.

On the Incarnation, Athanasius

Confessions, Augustine

City of God, Book 8, Augustine

The Mabinogian

Cur Deus Homo, Anslem

Aquinas, Selected Writings, Goodwin

Le Morte D'Arthur, Malory

The Prince, Machiavelli

Utopia, Moore

Commentary on Galatians, Luther

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin

The Faerie Queene, Spenser

Don Quixote, Cervantes

The Rights of Man, Paine

The Communist Manifesto, Marx, Engels

Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky

On the Origin of Species, Darwin

Thus Spoke Zarathrusta, Nietzche

The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud

Mein Kampf, Hitler

Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard

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"The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, and I must follow if I can, pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet, and whither then I cannot say."

-J.R.R. Tolkien