Recently, I was reading another blog about classical literature, and they extended a challenge to read at least fifty classic books. I chose books mostly from Aristotle and Archimedes because that is about where I am in reading The Great Books of the Western World series, which catalog some of the most important books to western thought from Homer to Freud. Most of these works are mathematical or scientific so we'll see how that affects the reading. It's important to me to become a learned man because it's an essential component to living a solid and honest life. I'm committing right now to reading all of these books. I highly recommend that all you guys should do it too! At the bottom, I included a link to the Classics Club,
which is a blog dedicated to readings from the classics.
Wish me luck and happy reading to you!
My Classics List:
which is a blog dedicated to readings from the classics.
Wish me luck and happy reading to you!
My Classics List:
- Art of War by Tsn Zu
- Wheelock’s Latin Primer
- Farenheit 451
- The critique of practical reason by Immanuel Kant
- Categories by Aristotle
- On Interpretation by Aristotle
- Prior Analytics by Aristotle
- Posterior Analytics by Aristotle
- Topics by Aristotle
- Sophistical refutations by Aristotle
- Physics by Aristotle
- On the Heavens by Aristotle
- On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle
- Meteorology by Aristotle
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- On the Soul by Aristotle
- History of Animals by Aristotle
- Parts of Animals by Aristotle
- On the Motion of Animals by Aristotle
- On the Gait of Animals by Aristotle
- On the Generation of Animals by Aristotle
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
- Rhetoric by Aristotle
- Poetics by Aristotle
- The Discourses by Epictetus
- The works of Hippocrates
- On the Natural Faculties by Galen
- Euclid’s Elements
- On the Sphere and Cylinder by Archimedes
- Measurement of a circle by Archimedes
- On Conoids and Spheroids by Archimedes
- On Spirals by Archimedes
- On the Equilibrium of Planes by Archimedes
- The Sand Reckoner by Archimedes by Archimedes
- The Quadrature of the Parabola by Archimedes
- On Floating Bodies by Archimedes
- Book of Lemmas by Archimedes
- The Method of Treating Mechanical Problems by Archimedes
- On Conic Sections by Apollonius of Perga
- Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
- The Book of Mormon by Various Authors
- The Old Testament by various authors
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- The Silmarillion
- As a Man Thinketh
- Emile by Rousseau
- For The Cause Of Liberty: A Thousand Years Of Ireland's Heroes by Terry Golway
Luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Most of the books I choose are pretty technical. I'll take all the luck I can get,
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