Reading List of 100 Classics, And A Contest
December 15, 2008 by Stephen Palmer · 14 Comments
This is another follow up to the last Sentinel newsletter.
A reader wrote to me and asked for a good list of classics. This list of 100 below is a condensed version of the George Wythe University reading list. It’s a good start to a liber education.
How many of these have you read? Count them up and let us know by commenting below.
And let’s make this interesting. I’ll send a free hardcover copy of Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity to the person who has read the most from this list (we’re on the honor system). You must respond on or before December 20th to be eligible.
And in case you’re wondering, I’ve only read 46 from this list.
- Acton, The History of Freedom
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government
- Aquinas, On Kingship
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
- Aristotle, Politics
- Aristotle, Rhetoric
- Augustine, The City of God
- Aurelius, Meditations
- Austen, Pride & Prejudice
- Austen, Sense & Sensibility
- Bacon, Novum Organum
- Bastiat, The Law
- Bastiat, What is Seen & What is Not Seen
- Benson, The Proper Role of Government
- The Bible
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- Bronte, Wuthering Heights
- Bronte, Jane Eyre
- Carson, The American Tradition
- Capra, The Tao of Physics
- Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- Churchill, Collected Speeches
- Cicero, The Republic
- Cicero, The Laws
- Clausewitz, On War
- Confucius, Analects
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Dante, The Divine Comedy
- The Declaration of Independence
- DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, A Discourse on Method
- Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Great Expectations
- Douglas, Magnificent Obsession
- Durant, The Story of Civilization
- Einstein, Relativity
- Emerson, Collected Essays
- Euclid, Elements
- Frank, Alas Babylon
- Franklin, Letters & Writings
- Freud, Civilization & Its Discontents
- Galileo, Two New Sciences
- Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Goethe, Faust
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Homer, The Iliad
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Hugo, Les Miserables
- Hume, Essays Moral, Political and Literary
- Jefferson, Letters, Speeches and Writings
- Keegan, History of Warfare
- Kepler, Epitome
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Collected Speeches
- Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry
- Lewis, Mere Christianity
- Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- Lewis, The Weight of Glory
- Lincoln, Collected Speeches
- Locke, Second Treatise of Government
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Madison, Hamilton and Jay, The Federalist Papers
- Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- More, Utopia
- The Magna Charta
- Mill, On Liberty
- Milton, Paradise Regained
- Mises, Human Action
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
- Newton, Mathematical Principles
- Nichomachus, Introduction to Arithmetic
- Neitzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
- The Northwest Ordinance
- Orwell, 1984
- Plato, Collected Works
- Polybius, Histories
- Potok, The Chosen
- Plutarch, Lives
- Ptolemy, Algamest
- Shakespeare, Collected Works
- Skousen, The Five Thousand Year Leap
- Skousen, The Majesty of God’s Law
- Skousen, The Making of America
- Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart
- Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
- Sophocles, Oedipus Trilogy
- Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
- Thakeray, Vanity Fair
- Thoreau, Walden
- Tolstoy, War and Peace
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- Washington, Letters, Speeches and Writing
- Weaver, Mainspring of Human Progress
- Wister, The Virginian
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So What Does It All Mean?
November 3, 2008 by Stephen Palmer · 4 Comments
Watch this video to the end and prepare to be overwhelmed with Future Shock.
Here’s what it means: a liberal arts education, virtue, and religion/spirituality have never been more critical. They are what ground you in the midst of rapid change and chaos. They are what give you perspective to put technology in its proper perspective. They give you the ability to forge new paths, persevere through hard times, and be a standard to follow.
Isn’t it time for your education?
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