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blogs.britannica.com The Great Conversation by Robert M. Hutchins

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        Great Books of the Western World, Volume 1: the Great Conversation;
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        Great Books of the Western World Volume 2 Syntopicon I
        Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.; 1st edition (1952)
        ASIN: B001INY7PM
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        Great Books of the Western World Volume 3 Syntopicon II
        Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.; 1st edition (1952)
        ASIN: B001DDM84E
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        Volume 1
            The Great Conversation
        
        Volume 2
            Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and Love
        
        Volume 3
            Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and World
        
        Volume 4
            Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)
                The Iliad
                The Odyssey
        
        Volume 5
            Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)
                The Suppliant Maidens
                The Persians
                Seven Against Thebes
                Prometheus Bound
                The Oresteia
                    Agamemnon
                    Choephoroe
                    The Eumenides
            Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)
                The Oedipus Cycle
                    Oedipus the King
                    Oedipus at Colonus
                    Antigone
                Ajax
                Electra
                The Trachiniae
                Philoctetes
            Euripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)
                Rhesus
                Medea
                Hippolytus
                Alcestis
                Heracleidae
                The Suppliants
                Trojan Women
                Ion
                Helen
                Andromache
                Electra
                Bacchantes
                Hecuba
                Heracles Mad
                Phoenician Women
                Orestes
                Iphigenia in Tauris
                Iphigenia in Aulis
                Cyclops
            Aristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)
                The Acharnians
                The Knights
                The Clouds
                The Wasps
                Peace
                The Birds
                The Frogs
                Lysistrata
                Thesmophoriazusae
                Ecclesiazousae
                Plutus
        
        Volume 6
            Herodotus
                The History (translated by George Rawlinson)
            Thucydides
                History of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)
        
        Volume 7
            Plato
                The Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)
                    Charmides
                    Lysis
                    Laches
                    Protagoras
                    Euthydemus
                    Cratylus
                    Phaedrus
                    Ion
                    Symposium
                    Meno
                    Euthyphro
                    Apology
                    Crito
                    Phaedo
                    Gorgias
                    The Republic
                    Timaeus
                    Critias
                    Parmenides
                    Theaetetus
                    Sophist
                    Statesman
                    Philebus
                    Laws
                The Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)
        
        Volume 8
            Aristotle
                Categories
                On Interpretation
                Prior Analytics
                Posterior Analytics
                Topics
                Sophistical Refutations
                Physics
                On the Heavens
                On Generation and Corruption
                Meteorology
                Metaphysics
                On the Soul
                Minor biological works
        
        Volume 9
            Aristotle
                History of Animals
                Parts of Animals
                On the Motion of Animals
                On the Gait of Animals
                On the Generation of Animals
                Nicomachean Ethics
                Politics
                The Athenian Constitution
                Rhetoric
                Poetics
        
        Volume 10
            Hippocrates
                Works
            Galen
                On the Natural Faculties
        
        Volume 11
            Euclid
                The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements
            Archimedes
                On the Sphere and Cylinder
                Measurement of a Circle
                On Conoids and Spheroids
                On Spirals
                On the Equilibrium of Planes
                The Sand Reckoner
                The Quadrature of the Parabola
                On Floating Bodies
                Book of Lemmas
                The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems
            Apollonius of Perga
                On Conic Sections
            Nicomachus of Gerasa
                Introduction to Arithmetic
        
        Volume 12
            Lucretius
                On the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)
            Epictetus
                The Discourses (translated by George Long)
            Marcus Aurelius
                The Meditations (translated by George Long)
        
        Volume 13
            Virgil (translated into English verse by James Rhoades)
                Eclogues
                Georgics
                Aeneid
        
        Volume 14
            Plutarch
                The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translated by John Dryden)
        
        Volume 15
            P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)
                The Annals
                The Histories
        
        Volume 16
            Ptolemy
                Almagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)
            Nicolaus Copernicus
                On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
            Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)
                Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)
                The Harmonies of the World (Book V)
        
        Volume 17
            Plotinus
                The Six Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page)
        
        Volume 18
            Augustine of Hippo
                The Confessions
                The City of God
                On Christian Doctrine
        
        Volume 19
            Thomas Aquinas
                Summa Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
        
        Volume 20
            Thomas Aquinas
                Summa Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)
        
        Volume 21
            Dante Alighieri
                The Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)
        
        Volume 22
            Geoffrey Chaucer
                Troilus and Criseyde
                The Canterbury Tales
        
        Volume 23
            Niccolò Machiavelli
                The Prince
            Thomas Hobbes
                Leviathan
        
        Volume 24
            François Rabelais
                Gargantua and Pantagruel
        
        Volume 25
            Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
                Essays
        
        Volume 26
            William Shakespeare
                The First Part of King Henry the Sixth
                The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth
                The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
                The Tragedy of Richard the Third
                The Comedy of Errors
                Titus Andronicus
                The Taming of the Shrew
                The Two Gentlemen of Verona
                Love's Labour's Lost
                Romeo and Juliet
                The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
                A Midsummer Night's Dream
                The Life and Death of King John
                The Merchant of Venice
                The First Part of King Henry the Fourth
                The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
                Much Ado About Nothing
                The Life of King Henry the Fifth
                Julius Caesar
                As You Like It
        
        Volume 27
            William Shakespeare
                Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
                The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
                The Merry Wives of Windsor
                Troilus and Cressida
                All's Well That Ends Well
                Measure for Measure
                Othello, the Moor of Venice
                King Lear
                Macbeth
                Antony and Cleopatra
                Coriolanus
                Timon of Athens
                Pericles, Prince of Tyre
                Cymbeline
                The Winter's Tale
                The Tempest
                The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth
                Sonnets
        
        Volume 28
            William Gilbert
                On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
            Galileo Galilei
                Dialogues Concerning the Two New Sciences
            William Harvey
                On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
                On the Circulation of Blood
                On the Generation of Animals
        
        Volume 29
            Miguel de Cervantes
                The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
        
        Volume 30
            Sir Francis Bacon
                The Advancement of Learning
                Novum Organum
                New Atlantis
        
        Volume 31
            René Descartes
                Rules for the Direction of the Mind
                Discourse on the Method
                Meditations on First Philosophy
                Objections Against the Meditations and Replies
                The Geometry
            Benedict de Spinoza
                Ethics
        
        Volume 32
            John Milton
                English Minor Poems
                Paradise Lost
                Samson Agonistes
                Areopagitica
        
        Volume 33
            Blaise Pascal
                The Provincial Letters
                Pensées
                Scientific and mathematical essays
        
        Volume 34
            Sir Isaac Newton
                Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
                Optics
            Christian Huygens
                Treatise on Light
        
        Volume 35
            John Locke
                A Letter Concerning Toleration
                Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
                An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
            George Berkeley
                The Principles of Human Knowledge
            David Hume
                An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
        
        Volume 36
            Jonathan Swift
                Gulliver's Travels
            Laurence Sterne
                The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
        
        Volume 37
            Henry Fielding
                The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
        
        Volume 38
            Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
                The Spirit of the Laws
            Jean Jacques Rousseau
                A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
                A Discourse on Political Economy
                The Social Contract
        
        Volume 39
            Adam Smith
                An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
        
        Volume 40
            Edward Gibbon
                The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)
        
        Volume 41
            Edward Gibbon
                The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)
        
        Volume 42
            Immanuel Kant
                Critique of Pure Reason
                Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
                Critique of Practical Reason
                Excerpts from The Metaphysics of Morals
                    Preface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on Conscience
                    General Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals
                    The Science of Right
                The Critique of Judgement
        
        Volume 43
            American State Papers
                Declaration of Independence
                Articles of Confederation
                The Constitution of the United States of America
            Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
                The Federalist
            John Stuart Mill
                On Liberty
                Considerations on Representative Government
                Utilitarianism
        
        Volume 44
            James Boswell
                The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
        
        Volume 45
            Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
                Elements of Chemistry
            Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
                Analytical Theory of Heat
            Michael Faraday
                Experimental Researches in Electricity
        
        Volume 46
            Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
                The Philosophy of Right
                The Philosophy of History
        
        Volume 47
            Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
                Faust
        
        Volume 48
            Herman Melville
                Moby Dick; or, The Whale
        
        Volume 49
            Charles Darwin
                The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
                The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
        
        Volume 50
            Karl Marx
                Capital
            Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
                Manifesto of the Communist Party
        
        Volume 51
            Count Leo Tolstoy
                War and Peace
        
        Volume 52
            Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
                The Brothers Karamazov
        
        Volume 53
            William James
                The Principles of Psychology
        
        Volume 54
            Sigmund Freud
                The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis
                Selected Papers on Hysteria
                The Sexual Enlightenment of Children
                The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy
                Observations on "Wild" Psycho-Analysis
                The Interpretation of Dreams
                On Narcissism
                Instincts and Their Vicissitudes
                Repression
                The Unconscious
                A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis
                Beyond the Pleasure Principle
                Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
                The Ego and the Id
                Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety
                Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
                Civilization and Its Discontents
                New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
        

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