Laura K (NC) Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (Other Christians might like the list up through most of the 19th century, and you might like a few of the 20th century selections) Franciscan U. of Steubenville has a Great Books Honors program that takes care of the humanities and social sciences core. I thought the list was helpful, not only for my own education, but for my kids as well. The list made me remember also that these works are difficult, and not all of them can be done by an average high schooler, even in the upper high school years. Also, Franciscan has filtered out some of the racier selections and included more Church Fathers (especially of the Western tradition). That emphasis was important to me. Seminar 1: Early Classical Thought Homer, Illiad, Odyssey Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Colonos, Antigone Euripides: Medea, Alcestis Aristotle: Poetics Herodotus: Histories Thucydides: Peloponnesian Wars Aristophanes: Acharnians, Peace Seminar 2: Later Classical Thought Aristophanes: Clouds Plato: Apology, Crito, Symposium, Republic, Phaedo Aristotle: Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics Plautus: The Menaechmi, The Haunted House, The Rope Terence: Woman of Andros, Phormio, The Brothers Vergil: Aeneid Plutarch: Parallel Lives, Caesar, Anthony, Cicero, Cato the Younger Cicero: De Amicitia, Tusculan Disputations Seneca: Medea, Phaedra, Thyestes Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Tacitus: Annals Origen: On First Principles, Commentary on the Song of Songs Athanasius: On the Incarnation Augustine: Confessions, City of God (selections) Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy Benedict: Rule Seminar 4: Medieval Thought Abraham and Isaac (mystery play) Second Shepherd's Play Everyman (morality play) Song of Roland Bede: Hagiography and Histories Langland: Piers Plowman Anselm: Proslogium, Cur Deus Homo Bonaventure: The Mind's Road to God Aquinas: Summa Theologica (selections) Dante: Divine Comedy Chaucer: Canterbury Tales A Kempis: The Imitation of Christ Seminar 5: The Renaissance Machiavelli: Prince Montaigne: Essays Pascal: Pensees More: Utopia Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest Cervantes: Don Quixote Moliere: Tartuffe Descartes: Discourse on Method Milton: Paradise Lost Francis de Sales: Introduction to the Devout Life Seminar 6: Enlightenment Swift: Gulliver's Travels Hobbes: Leviathan Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Voltaire: Candide Rousseau: Social Contract Burke: Reflections on the French Revolution Jefferson: Declaration of Independence Madison, Hamilton, Jay: Federalist Papers Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations Goethe: Faust Seminar 7: 19th Century Tolstoy: Anna Karenina or War and Peace Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals Hegel: Lectures of the Philosophy of History (selections) Kierkegaard: The Point of View of My Work as an Author, Sickness Unto Death Marx: Communist Manifesto Keats, Hopkins, Wordsworth: Selected poems Freud: An Outline of Psychoanalysis Darwin: Origin of Species (selections) Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil Newman: Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Sermons Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov Seminar 8: 20th Century Sartre: The Flies, No Exit Camus: The Stranger Gilson: The Unity of Philosophical Experience T.S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party, Murder in the Cathedral, Four Quartets C.S. Lewis: The Great Divorce, The Abolition of Man Chesterton: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy Karl Adam: The Spirit of Catholicism Guardini: End of the Modern World Dawson: The Crisis of Western Education, Religion and the Rise of the Western Culture Von Hildebrand: Transformation in Christ De Lubac: Catholicism John Paul II: Love and Responsibility, The Redeemer of Man, On Divine Mercy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 As usual, you post some of the best resources available. This looks like a fantastic list; I'll print it out and save it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Marple Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Thank you so much. I've been collecting Great Books lists in order to create my own reading GB list. This is very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.S. Burrow Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I'm not Catholic but this list looks GREAT! Thanks for posting it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ame E. Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 is this a high school or college reading list? thanks Ame e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura K (NC) Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 some of the titles are the same, or similar in difficulty, to the Great Books titles recommended in The Well-Trained Mind, geared for high school. I will be using some for my high schooler but not all. For example, I had great trouble with Kant, myself, and would never inflict him on my sons unless they really showed a lot of interest in philosophy. I would absolutely have my kids read Thomas a Kempis' and Francis de Sales' works and Sartre's "No Exit," which I just got through reading online... it has that famous line, "Hell is other people." That's great to contrast with the idea of Catholics and other Christians that Heaven is other people, and love based on the trinitarian relationship, and Hell is, as one writer put it, when the soul says to God for eternity, "I don't want to love. I do not want to be loved. Just leave me to myself." I'm not proposing a curriculum. I posted more in the spirit of self-education that naturally spills over into the education of our children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
langfam Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thank-you for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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angela in ohio Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Franciscan University of Steuben ville is a Catholic institution located in Steuben ville, Pennsylvania. The school originally named the College of Steuben ville was founded in 1946 by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular. Steubenville is in Ohio. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaLisa Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I saw this post and thought that LauraK(NC) was posting again. :glare: Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asta Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 St. Thomas Aquinas in California has a great reading list as well. a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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