Chapter 1 Greek Culture The Funeral Oration of Pericles Thucydides The Apology Plato Politics Aristotle Chapter 2 Roman Culture Roman Oration Aelius Aristides The Meditations Marcus Aurelius Chapter 3 Early Christianity The Gospel According to St.Matthew The City of God Saint Augustine Chapter 4 Middle Ages Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas The Christian Way of Life St.Benedict of Nursia Chapter 5 Renaissance Oration on the Dignity of Man Pico della Mirandola T he Prince Niccolo Machiavelli Chapter6 The Reformation On Papal Power; Justification by Faith; The Interpretation of the Bible Martin Luther The Institutes John Calvin Chapter 7 The Scientific Revolution Attack on Authority and Advocacy of Experimental Science Francis Bacon Discourse on Method Rene Descartes Chapter 8 The Enlightenment What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant The Age of Reason Thomas Paine The Second Treatise af Government John Locke Chapter 9 Romanticism Preface to Lyrical Ballads; The Tables Turned William Wordsworth Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chapter 10 Socialism The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens Chapter 11 Liberalism The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith On Liberty John Stuart Mill Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract Thomas Hill Green Chapter 12 Darwinism On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man Charles Darwin Social Statics Herbert Spencer Chapter 13 The Challenge to the Tradition The Will to Power; The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud Chapter 14 The Modernist Movement Manifesto of Surrealism Andre Breton Ulysses James Joyce The Second Coming W.B.Yeats since feeling is first e.e.cummings Chapter 15 The West in an Age of Globalism Existentialism Is a Humanism Jean-Paul Sartre The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
Appendix 1 A Sketch of Western Civilization Appendix 2 Great Books of the Western World References Acknowledgements
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