| | Most of these are from the Great Books ( en.wikipedia.org ) which I used to own and digested thoroughly. This is what Neo would have taken at St. Johns. Dullards like the TROLL boy and Brum, who can barely string a complete sentence together without using the clipboard, would have been anathema to Neo in any personal environment. He would have considered them primitive and uncultivated but worthy of compassion on that account.
"Neoconservatism... originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' [After the end of the Cold War]... many 'paleoliberals' drifted back to the Democratic center... Today's neocons are a shrunken remnant of the original broad neocon coalition. Nevertheless, the origins of their ideology on the left are still apparent. The fact that most of the younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal) heirs of older ex-leftists."
Freshman year[ edit]
- Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
- Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes Ajax
- Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
- Euripides: Hippolytus, The Bacchae
- Herodotus: Histories
- Aristophanes: Clouds
- Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
- Aristotle: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
- Euclid: Elements
- Plutarch: "Lycurgus" and "Solon" from the Parallel Lives
- Antoine Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry
- William Harvey: Motion of the Heart and Blood
- Essays by: Archimedes, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Black, John Dalton, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Rudolf Virchow, Edme Mariotte, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Hans Spemann, Guy Beckley Stearns, J. J. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Claude Louis Berthollet, Joseph Proust
Sophomore year[ edit]
- The Bible
- Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
- Apollonius: Conics
- Virgil: Aeneid
- Plutarch: "Caesar", "Cato the Younger", "Antony", and "Brutus" from the Parallel Lives
- Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
- Tacitus: Annals
- Ptolemy: Almagest
- Plotinus: The Enneads
- Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
- Augustine of Hippo: Confessions
- Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
- Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogium
- Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
- Dante: Divine Comedy
- Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
- Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
- Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV
- François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
- Michel de Montaigne: Essays
- François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art
- Francis Bacon: Novum Organum
- William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Sonnets
- Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
- René Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
- Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
- Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
- Joseph Haydn: Quartets
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Third Symphony
- Franz Schubert: Songs
- Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
- Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Junior year[ edit]
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Galileo Galilei: Two New Sciences
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
- René Descartes: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
- John Milton: Paradise Lost
- François de La Rochefoucauld: Maximes
- Jean de La Fontaine: Fables
- Blaise Pascal: Pensées
- Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise
- John Locke: Second Treatise of Government
- Jean Racine: Phèdre
- Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica
- Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV
- Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
- Molière: Le Misanthrope
- Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
- Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
- The Declaration of Independence
- Articles of Confederation
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- The Federalist Papers
- Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- William Wordsworth: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799
- Essays by: Thomas Young, Brook Taylor, Leonhard Euler, Daniel Bernoulli, Hans Christian Ørsted, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell
Senior year[ edit]
- Supreme Court opinions
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
- Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit, " Logic" (from the Encyclopedia)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
- Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches
- Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
- Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Herman Melville: Benito Cereno
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Flannery O'Connor: Selected Stories
- Sigmund Freud: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
- Booker T. Washington: Selected Writings
- W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Edmund Husserl: Crisis of the European Sciences
- Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings
- Albert Einstein: Selected Papers
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- William Faulkner: Go Down Moses
- Gustave Flaubert: Un Coeur Simple
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- Poems by: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Paul Valéry, Arthur Rimbaud
- Essays by: Michael Faraday, J. J. Thomson, Hermann Minkowski, Ernest Rutherford, Clinton Davisson, Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis-Victor de Broglie, Werner Heisenberg, Gregor Mendel, Theodor Boveri, Walter Sutton, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Wells Beadle & Edward Lawrie Tatum, Gerald Jay Sussman, James D. Watson & Francis Crick, François Jacob & Jacques Monod, G. H. Hardy
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