Chapter1 Greek Culture
The Funeral Oration of Pericles Thucydides
The Apology Plato
Politics Aristotle
Chapter2 Roman Culture
Roman Oration Aelius Aristides
The Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Chapter3 Early Christianity
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The City of God Saint Augustine
Chapter4 Middle Ages
Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas
The Christian Way of Life St. Benedict of Nursia
Chapter5 Renaissance
Oration on the Dignity of Man Pico della Mirandola
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
Chapter6 The Reformation
On Papal Power; Justification by Faith;
The Interpretation of the Bible Martin Luther
The Institutes John Calvin
Chapter7 The Scientific Revolution
Attack on Authority and Advocacy of Experimental Science
Francis Bacon
Discourse on Method Rene Descartes
Chapter8 The Enlightenment
What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant
The Age of Reason Thomas Paine
The Second Treatise of Government John Locke
Chapter9 Romanticism
Preface to Lyrical Ballads; The Tables Turned William Wordsworth
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chapter10 Socialism
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens
Chapter11 Liberalism
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
On Liberty John Stuart Mill
Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract Thomas Hill Green
Chapter12 Darwinism
On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Social Statics Herbert Spencer
Chapter13 The Challenge to the Tradition
The Will to Power; The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche
Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud
Chapter14 The Modernist Movement
Manifesto of Surrealism Andrr Breton
Ulysses James Joyce
The Second Coming W.B. Yeats
since feeling is first e.e. cummings
Chapter15 The West in an Age of Globalism
Existentialism Is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre
The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
Appendix1 A Sketch of Western Civilization
Appendix2 Great Books of the Western World
References
Acknowledgements
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