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100 Greatest Works Humanity Has Ever Made

A Great Books Canon

 “To ignore the leaps and bounds we've advanced in the fields of technology and science is to forever play patty-cake to the cavepeople of yesteryear.”


Podcast Explanation for the first few Great Books of the Freedom Skool: http://youtu.be/7jD_v4ji1kU

This is the Freedom Skool's 2015 list of the 100 Greatest Works Humanity Has Ever Made in the order of most important to least. Books are too limiting in their scope for what ideas can cloud the brain, and folks from all over the world, yesterday, today, men, women, atheist, spiritual, white, black, straight, gay, transvestite, have all helped in the collaboration in the making of this list. Out of the great pool of ideas, the best ideas should prevail. Thus, the 100 greatest works ever are nothing more than the 100 greatest ideas ever constructed. For all intensive and respectful purposes, consider this my own personal 100 “great books” list. For all kinds of culture, things which please the eyes, such as movies, and the other 4 senses not in the imagination, should be celebrated as well as intellectual consciousness, and mathematical and scientific certainty.

1 - Alia al-Mahdi (a woman)


3 - Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead

4 - Director Ava DuVernay and Writer Paul Webb: Selma (a movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_(film)

5 - Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf


7 - Robert Greene: 48 Laws of Power

8 - Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time

9 - Noam Chomsky: 9-11

10 - George Orwell: 1984

11 - Howard Zinn: The People's History of the United States

12 - Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General Theory http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

13 - Eugene Debs: The Anti-War Speech That Sent Eugene To Prison for 10 Years https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm

14 - Jean Jacques Rousseau: Emile


16 - Che Guevara: Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episodes_of_the_Cuban_Revolutionary_War I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves. ~Statement in Mexico (1958); as quoted in Kaplan AP World History 2005 (2004) edited by the Kaplan staff, p. 240 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Che_Guevara https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm

17 - Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2009 “to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth.” ~N.D. Tyson

18 - Coolio: Gangsta's Paradise (a sound)

19 - Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 “to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.”

20 - Isaac Newton: The System of the World – “to learn that the universe is a knowable place.” ~ND Tyson http://www.archive.org/stream/newtonspmathema00newtrich/newtonspmathema00newtrich_djvu.txt

21 - Neil DeGrasse Tyson: The Pluto Files

22 - Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals


24 - John Maynard Keynes: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Theory_of_Employment,_Interest_and_Money

25 - Johann Most: The Science of Revolutionary Warfare

26 - Thomas R. Gray: The Confessions of Nat Turner http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html

27 - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Gay Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science



30 - Integrated Circuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit

31 - Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3743 “to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.” ~ND Tyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason


33 - Michael Faraday: The Chemical History of a Candle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Candle

34 - Eli Roth: Discovery Channel's Rendition of Yale University's Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/videos/the-milgram-experiment/

35 -Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom


37 - Michael Faraday: Experimental Researches in Electricity http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/Rarebook_treasures/QC503F211839_PDF/QC503F211839v2.pdf


39 - Isaac Newton: Opticks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticks

40 - Logan the Orator: Logan's Lament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_(American_Indian_leader)#Logan.27s_Lament

41- Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

42 - Salman Khan: Khan's Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/

43 - Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV

44 - B.F. Skinner: Beyond Freedom and Dignity

45 - Jack London: The Call of the Wild

46 - Cracked.com: The 5 Craziest Ways Peopled Defeated Terrifying Regimes http://www.cracked.com/article_21866_the-5-craziest-ways-people-defeated-terrifying-regimes.html

47 - Jacopetti, Gualtiero and Franco Prosperi: Goodbye Uncle Tom (a movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Uncle_Tom

48 - Albert Einstein: The World As I See It

49 - Leon Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution

50 - National Training Laboratories: The Learning Pyramid

51 - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Grimm's Fairy Tales

52 - Paulo Freire: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed


54 - Sigmund Freud: On Dreams



57 - Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee


59 - Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

60 - Higgs Boson

61 - Marina Abromovic: Rhythym Zero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPTKmFcYAQ


63 - Smartphone (a thing)

64 - Henry Martyn Robert: Robert's Rules of Order http://www.robertsrules.org/

65 - Anne Frank: The Diary of Anne Frank

66 - Ivan Pavlov: Conditioned Reflexes

67 - The Jolly Roger: Anarchist Cookbook

68 - Alex Haley: Autobiography of Malcolm X

69 - The Young Turks (a company and a website, and a youtube channel)


71 - Booker T Washington: Daily Resolves

72 - Theodor Seuss Geisel: Green Eggs and Ham. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Eggs_and_Ham

73 - mp3s (a thing)

74 - Abraham Maslow: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

75 - Eduardo Galeano: Open Veins of Latin America: 5 Centuries of a Pillage of a Continent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America

76 - Daniel Greenburg. Sudbury Valley Schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Valley_School

77 - Transistor (a thing)

78 - Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

79 - John Green: Crash Course

80 - Albert Einstein: Ideas and Opinions

81 - Youtube.com (a thing)

82 - Christopher Hitchens: The Portable Atheist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portable_Atheist

83 - Combustible Engine (a thing)

84 - Francis Fukuyama: End of History? (an article) http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm

85 - Director Héctor Babenco, Adaptation by Leonard Schrader, Written by Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman (a movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_(film)

86 - Theodor Seuss Geisel: Wacky Wednesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wednesday_(book)

87 - Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience

88 - Power and Equality Wheels

89 - Frederick Douglass: The Significance of Emancipation in the West Indies Speech. Canandaigua, New York. August 3, 1857. http://www.blackpast.org/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress.

90 - Tecumseh: His Words. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/tecumseh.html https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tecumseh

91 - Anne Moody: Coming of Age in Mississippi

92 - Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence

93 - The US Constitution

94 - Matt Stone and Trey Parker: South Park

95 - Twitter.com (a thing)

96 - Stephen Aron: How the West Was Lost

97 - Theonion.com: Schlubs From US-China Meet in Lowest Level Talks http://www.theonion.com/articles/schlubs-from-us-china-meet-in-lowestlevel-talks,37662/

98 - Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/twain/mark/finn/

99 – Jon Stewart: The Daily Show

100 - Abraham Lincoln: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, (August 1, 1858?), p. 532. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.”

101 - John Oliver: Last Week Tonight

102 - Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/wollstonecraft1792.pdf

103 - Google News (a thing)

104 - Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree

105 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince


107 - Johann Most and Emma Goldman: Anarchy Defended By Anarchists http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-most-and-emma-goldman-anarchy-defended-by-anarchists

108 – Facebook.com (a website)

109 - Quentin Tarentino: Django (a movie)

110 - King James: Bible “to learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.” ~N.D. Tyson http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10

111 - Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

112 - Oliver Stone: JFK (a movie)


114 - Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413

115 - Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(novel)

116 - W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk

117 - Yevgeny Zamyatin: We

118 - Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

119 - Jonathon Swift: Gulliver's Travels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels

120 - Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

121 - Michael Moore: Fahrenheit 9/11

122 - Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game

123 - Emile Durkheim: Suicides

124 - Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

125 - Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)

126 - Slaughterhouses (a thing)

127 - Lana and Andy Wachowski: The Matrix (a movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis

128 - Labor Unions

129 – Steven Speilburg: Jurassic Park (a movie)

130 - Sugata Mitra: Hole-in-the-Wall Experiment (an experiment)

131 - a piece of velvet (a thing)

132 - “Kentucky Creme” (a candy)

133 - Max Planck: Where is Science Going?


Fuck Mortimer Adler: http://youtu.be/J37AotFsjJg

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The internal discussions I had with myself in compiling this list of 134 great “books” was incredible, and I hope it'll stir many more conversations to come. In some respects, this isn't even really my real list. Since I am creating the first list of Great Books for the Freedom Skool, I have combined a few “popular” ideas with solid classical knowledge. I oscillated between the dichotomous words “conservative” and “liberal”, and between “scientific” versus “political” the most. I resolved that scientific exploration can't happen unless there's a peaceful political situation, and therefore, this list is aimed for Americans. I hope more scientific books and works are placed on this list as our political situation becomes less unstable. I wanted to “venerate” the greatest authors and their greatest works, but I felt that until there's a true blue Revolution, with a Constitution to follow, so that the Revolution will be consolidated forever, to upright our upside down totalitarian fascist system, then we can enjoy the fruits and blessings of our collective freedom struggle, with a type of peaceful “Pax Americana” to work on our curiosities until our heart's content.

Some authors I merely just introduced one book or speech that a “great” made to the public hoping that their other works will be read and watched and listened to also.

For those savvy observers who point out that my list is actually a list of 134 instead of a list of 100, be proud of yourself, because you are an astute observer, and are correct. Congratulations on being such a great astute observer, and on being correct. You should be proud of yourself, because I cannot tell the difference between you and Sherlock Holmes. Maybe you're more of an Encyclopedia Brown type of detective. Either way, touche, my nigga, my homey, my comrade, my friend, my brother. This remains the best 100 Greatest Works I will offer today, finished at the beginning of 2015, made to be representative of the gift that the “Senior” class of Freedom Skool gives to the Kindergarteners for the 2015 year, which hopefully they'll do every year, for time immemorial. Perhaps next year I'll just list only scientific books I believe to be cornerstones to Human Civilization. For now, I believe I packed in most of the books I would have built as a “pure” “Great Books” list, and therefore, if you want a list of 100, you can do two things: 1) delete all of the “non-books” off of the list, which should chisel the list down quite a bit, or; 2) just take the first 100 as the authentic first 100 Great Works list of the Freedom Skools, and then send your apology letter to John Oliver. While I took much effort in determining the Top 10 books of this list, the rest of the list wasn't really put into any order using priorities. I liked them all, and some of them, I wanted to get to reading, to test more substantially if I want to keep them in such a royal list that should be held in a high and sacred regard. Even if a great mind feels cheated, then perhaps, for 2016, I can have more discussions about what those 100 “Great Works” would be. I'd say, it would be more scientific, and I'd applaud such an effort. Also, if you're confused by my great books, don't worry. You're not alone.

While based on the “Great Books” lists made in times past, my list is also a kick in the nuts of that same past. It's a list of 100 items, mostly books, which have made a tremendous impact our collective lives. I ignored most of the Greek and Roman crap because I only came across a few of their works, and from those few, only a few “nuggets” of wisdom did I gain from them. I could probably just put the quotes and ideas from what I understand about each author (Decartes: “I think, therefore I am”) into a one day's compilation. 1 philosophy class and my understanding about most of the “great authors” had then “taught”. And while I could “teach” you all that I know about those authors, and it would be a fun class, and expedient too (I still think of Dr. White's animated and gesticulated analysis of Francis Fukayama's “End of History” article), one could learn much of the philosophy in a children's book about philosophy, or by just reading a bunch of quotes, from some random list on the Net somewhere.

Because I respect contemporary authors' thoughts about “the great ideas” (ex. Beauty, Love, Justice, Freedom. Equality, etc.), and because we're living in a Postmodern Internet society, where we're seeing the Internet become a Gutenburg printing press Revolution for the masses, to ignore the leaps and bounds we've advanced in the field of technology and science is to forever play patty-cake to the cavemen of yesteryear.

Also, while I was partial to books in general, which shows a bit of my own prejudice, I put “a piece of velvet”, and “Kentucky Creme”, and “Django” in the list in order to show that we interpret the world with 5 senses (hearing, taste, smell, sight, and touch), and therefore, all of those senses had a place in the list of “the greatest works”. While I understand a piece of velvet may not be the “best” (silk?) of all things to touch, for now, it'll do as a placeholder for any and all other things that will be nice to touch. No doubt future generations will decide differently than the way I decided. Maybe they go more radical, and perhaps, they go more conservative. The dance between liberals and conservatives has been happening since human history began. Winston Churchill said that one had no heart if they were under 30, and one had no brain if they were over 30 and not a conservative. Kentucky Creme and Django acts as the same symbolic meaning for their respective one of the 5 senses that they represent. Perhaps we can find a “greatest” thing to see, or maybe, more will show up on future lists. There are movie scrips to the movies, as well as critics who write about all things, most especially, “great” smells, sounds, sights, tastes, and feels.

The coveted top #1 spot is reserved for “life”, which can be interpreted many ways. Alia al-Mahdi protested the Sharia Law Constitution of Egypt by writing “Sharia is not a Constitution” on the front of her body, and protesting nude, in front of some building in Sweden. The female body has always been a reason for contention, and therefore, as a symbol, Alia al-Mahdi's body is representative for all womankind.

Perhaps, for movies to make the list, their screenplays should be nominated, so that their “bookness” won't be questioned. A book is nothing more than a collection of ideas, as are websites—their organization as well as their HTML code—, inventions, movies, electrician's manuals, and car manuals, and HVAC manuals, etc.

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The Algorithm for how future “Great Works” elections will go about:

First, all “ideas” are nominated. Every person can turn in their list of up to 100 greatest works ever, though it's not necessary for all 100 to be given. 20 seems reasonable to nominate. All of those nominated ideas are then compiled into one list, and from that list, the top 100 best are voted on by everybody in the school.

I would use an Algorithm like this:

So, let's say there's 100 students, and they all utilized the 100 great works maximum limit, and wound up nominating 10,000 ideas to be put into the 100 Great Works list. We take the 10,000 ideas, and put them on a ballot, preferably online, and have the 100 students rank, out of the 10,000 ideas, their top 100 choices. For their top choice, they would mark 100, and for their last choice, they would mark 1. All 9,900 ideas would be counted as having no points awarded them.

We can stop here, but I want to have two rounds of voting. We can stop here by counting those ideas who got the most points as being in the Top 100 list. I want to do two rounds of voting, however, because I believe with the field of choices narrowed down, a more intimate conversation can happen with the remaining choices.

So after the first round, 50% of the entire idea field is wiped out. The bottom 50%. All of those ideas with zero points are knocked off, and then those with 1 point, and then 2 point, and so on, until 50% of the ideas have been chiseled out. I'd even let all of the zero ideas be thrown out first, and then, take 50% of the rest out of the running.

Now this list is 5,000 ideas long, or less. It's still a lengthy document, but the student's choices of their “Top 100” can be a better conversation after all of the weakling ideas were purged out with the first election. The second election is ran the same as the first one, where one person votes 100 for their top choice, and 1 for their bottom, and ranks their favorite “works” or “books” from 100 to 1. After this election has concluded, then the top 100 books with the most points “wins”, and gets to be in that year's list of “Great Books”/”Great Works”/”Great Ideas”/”Great Sounds”, or whatever it is you want to call it.

Something to think about for a future more complicated Algorithm. Perhaps the long list of ideas can be chiseled down to about 1,000 ideas, and then the voting would be more “Instant Runoff Voting” inspired and fairer vote in the sense that the last place ideas is thrown or discarded, and then the person's next highest choice would take it's place. This allows for the weakest ideas to be discarded without punishing one who voted for a “longshot” idea, hoping others would do the same, and finding out, it was in indeed, a good idea in just their stupid pea-sized brains. Their next choice would be moved up in points, so that the remaining ideas voted upon would get the maximum amount of points for every round the Algorithm threw the votes out.

For instance, if I voted 100 point for A, 99 point for B, and 98 point for C, but nobody else voted for B, and that idea is thrown out. Now my “C choice” would be bumped up to a “99-point” idea since that's how I would have voted had I known that only I believed in idea B. Of course this would all be done electronically, with a more explicit documented Algorithm created so it's very clear how it's supposed to work, because it would require a ton of calculation. Also, we would have 100 points down to maybe 20 points, as more and more ideas are eliminated, so a voter can rank their top choices only from 100 points down to 20 points. The advantage of doing this IRV-inspired type of election is that it eliminates how many times a group has to vote, as well as making the voting more equitable, so that folks can vote their consciences, instead of voting for the ideas that they think will win, so they don't feel so isolated and alienated and alone. It also makes for a more precise list of what the student body actually believed to be the “Greatest” works, instead of voting for what they believed would be popular, just to fit it with others.

Unlike my Great Books' predecessors, namely, Mortimer Adler, I not only bask in my bias, I revel in it.

xxx

Notable Mentions:

Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/Literature/World-Classics/Anna-Karenina/45978 https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/tolstoy/leo/t65a/
Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (eBook—Audio Book)
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
(eBook—Audio Book)
Richard Wright: Black Boy
Borat
Mortimer J. Adler: How To Think About God http://www.jamezone.org/index.php/jerry_james/philosophy_and_religion/adler
Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses http://www.answering-islam.org/Hahn/satanicverses.htm http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/20/salman-rushdie-case/
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Don Delillo: White Noise
Vladimir Lenin: Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage_of_Capitalism
Karl Marx: Capital
Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844
The German Ideology
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound
Miguel De Cervantes: Don Quixote
The Prince by Machiavelli. “to learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it.” http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/132 http://www.archive.org/details/prince_pa_librivox
The Best American Humorous Short Stories, edited by Alexander Jessup
Mark Twain: The Innocents Abroad http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm
Forrest Gump
Sound of Music
Sun Tzu: The Art of War: “to learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art.” (eBook – Audio Book) –
Mark Twain: The Gilded Age http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3178/3178-h/3178-h.htm#ch1
Johannes Kepler: The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Molière: Le Misanthrope
In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
Middlemarch; George Eliot;
Perks of being a Wallflower
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Brooks Adams
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James,
The Stories of Anton Chekhov, edited by Robert N. Linscott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/108392/Anton-Chekhov
Within a Budding Grove, by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Anna Karenina,
Far Away and Long Ago,
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (eBook) Buddenbrooks,
Wuthering Heights,
Madame Bovary,
War and Peace,
A Sportsman’s Sketches,
The Brothers Karamazov,
Hail and Farewell,
Huckleberry Finn,
Winesburg, Ohio,
La Reine Margot,
La Maison Tellier,
Le Rouge et le Noire,
La Chartreuse de Parme,
Dubliners, Yeat’s Autobiographies
Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson (eBook—Audio Book)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (eBook—Audio Book)
A Sportsman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev (eBook)
Hail and Farewell by George Moore (eBook)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (eBook—Audio)
Queen Margot by Alexandre Dumas (eBook)
La Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant (eBook)
The Red and the Black by Stendhal (eBook—Audio Book)
La Chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal (eBook)
Dubliners by James Joyce (eBook—Audio Book)
Reveries over Childhood and Youth by William Butler Yeats (eBook)
The Trembling of the Veil by William Butler Yeats (eBook)
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
The Life of Jesus, by Ernest Renan
A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
The Old Wives’ Tale, by Arnold Bennett
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiel Hammett
The Red and the Black, by Stendahl
The Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, translated by Michael Monahan
An Outline of Abnormal Psychology, edited by Gardner Murphy
Victory, by Joseph Conrad
The Revolt of the Angels, by Anatole France
Sanctuary, by William Faulkner
Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust
South Wind, by Norman Douglas
The Garden Party, by Katherine Mansfield
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works
John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Samuel Richardson: Clarissa
Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Frankenstein
Emma by Jane Austen
Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk about Love
Collected Stories of John Cheever
James Dickey: Deliverance
Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)
La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Representative Men;
Essays;
Journal
Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality; The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist
    Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography
Call of the Wild
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
DARWIN, The Descent of Man, Part I, Ch. 4-5; p. 279.
    Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations
Iron Heel
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, The Origin of Inequality
HARVEY, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals ; p. 155.
DARWIN, The Origin of Species, Ch. 3-4; p. 183.
DARWIN, The Descent of Man, Part I, Ch. 1-4; p. 217.
The Bible Old Testament, Genesis 12:1-9, 13:14-18, 18:17-33, 22:1-19;
Exodus 3-4, 6:1-8, 14-15, 19-20, 24; p. 31.
The Bible New Testament, Matthew; p. 49.
Brave New World
Aristotle: Poetics, Physics; Metaphysics; Nicomachaen Ethics; On Generation and Corruption; Politics; Parts of Animals; Generation of Animals; De Anima; On Interpretation; Prior Analytics; Categories;
Apollonius: Conics
Virgils: Aeneid
Thomas Robert Malthus – An Essay on the Principle of Population
John Dalton – A New System of Chemical Philosophy
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier – Analytical Theory of Heat
Muhammad: The Koran
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Anton Chekhov
François Guizot: History of Civilization in France
Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – The Phenomenology of Spirit; Science of Logic; Elements of the Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Aeschylus: Agamemnon; Libration Bearers; Eumenides; Prometheus Bound;
Homer: Illiad, Odyssey
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigine; Philoctees Ajax
Thucydides: Pelopennesian War
Euripides: Hippolytus, The Bacchae
Herodotus: Histories
Aristophanes: Clouds
Plato: Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmneides; Theatetus; Sophist; Timaeus; Phaedrus;
The Bible
Plutarch: “Caesar”; “Cato the Younger”; “Antony”; “Brutus”; “Lycurgus”; and “Solon” from Parallel Live
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 Stears; JJ Thomson; Dmitri Mendeleev; Clause Louis Berthollet, Joseph Proust
Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
Tacitus: Annals
Ptolemy: Almagest
Plotinus: The Enneads
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Augustine of Hipp: Confessions
Maimonides: Guide for the Perplexed
Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogium
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Michel de Montaigne: Essays
Francois Viete: Introduction to the Analytical Art
Francis Bacon: Novum Organum
Shakespeare: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; The Tempest; As You Like It; Hamlet: Othello: Macbeth; King Lear; Sonnets
Dante: Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer; Canterbury Tales
Francois Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
    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
    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
    Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics,Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
    David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
    Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
    Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
    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
    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
    Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
    Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
    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
    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
    Aeschylus – Tragedies
    Sophocles – Tragedies
    Herodotus – Histories
    Euripides – Tragedies
    Thucydides – History of the Peloponnesian War
    Hippocrates – Medical Writings
    Aristophanes – Comedies
    Plato – Dialogues
    Aristotle – Works
    Epicurus – "Letter to Herodotus"; "Letter to Menoecus"
    Euclid – Elements
    Archimedes – Works
    Apollonius – Conics
    Cicero – Works (esp. Orations; On Friendship; On Old Age; Republic; Laws; Tusculan Disputations; Offices)
    Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
    Virgil – Works (esp. Aeneid)
    Horace – Works (esp. Odes and Epodes; The Art of Poetry)
    Livy – History of Rome
    Ovid – Works (esp. Metamorphoses)
    Quintilian – Institutes of Oratory
    Plutarch – Parallel Lives; Moralia
    Tacitus – Histories; Annals; Agricola; Germania; Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on Oratory)
    Nicomachus of Gerasa – Introduction to Arithmetic
    Epictetus – Discourses; Enchiridion
    Ptolemy – Almagest
    Lucian – Works (esp. The Way to Write History; The True History; The Sale of Creeds;Alexander the Oracle Monger; Charon; The Sale of Lives; The Fisherman; Dialogue of the Gods; Dialogues of the Sea-Gods; Dialogues of the Dead)
    Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
    Galen – On the Natural Faculties
    The New Testament
    Plotinus – The Enneads
    St. Augustine – "On the Teacher"; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
    The Volsungs Saga or Nibelungenlied
    The Song of Roland
    The Saga of Burnt Njál
    Maimonides – The Guide for the Perplexed
    St. Thomas Aquinas – Of Being and Essence; Summa Contra Gentiles; Of the Governance of Rulers; Summa Theologica
    Dante Alighieri – The New Life (La Vita Nuova); "On Monarchy"; Divine Comedy
    Geoffrey Chaucer – Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
    Thomas à Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
    Desiderius Erasmus – The Praise of Folly; Colloquies
    Nicolaus Copernicus – On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    Thomas More – Utopia
    Martin Luther – Table Talk; Three Treatises
    François Rabelais – Gargantua and Pantagruel
    John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
    Michel de Montaigne – Essays
    William Gilbert – On the Lodestone and Magnetic Bodies
    Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quixote
    Edmund Spenser – Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
    Francis Bacon – Essays; The Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis
    William Shakespeare – Poetry and Plays
    Galileo Galilei – Starry Messenger; Two New Sciences
    Leonardo da Vinci – Notebooks
    Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
    William Harvey – On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; Generation of Animals
    Grotius – The Law of War and Peace
    Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan; Elements of Philosophy
    René Descartes – Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method;Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy; Principles of Philosophy; The Passions of the Soul
    Corneille – Tragedies (esp. The Cid, Cinna)
    John Milton – Works (esp. the minor poems; Areopagitica; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes)
    Molière – Comedies (esp. The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself; Tartuffe; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Imaginary Invalid;The Affected Ladies)
    Blaise Pascal – The Provincial Letters; Pensées; Scientific Treatises
    Boyle – The Sceptical Chymist
    Christiaan Huygens – Treatise on Light
    Benedict de Spinoza – Political Treatises; Ethics
    John Locke – A Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    Jean Baptiste Racine – Tragedies (esp. Andromache; Phaedra; Athalie (Athaliah))
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays on Human Understanding; Monadology
    Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe; Moll Flanders
    Jonathan Swift – The Battle of the Books; A Tale of a Tub; A Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
    William Congreve – The Way of the World
    George Berkeley – A New Theory of Vision; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
    Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism; The Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man
    Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu – Persian Letters; The Spirit of the Laws
    Voltaire – Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
    Henry Fielding – Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
    Samuel Johnson – The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; Lives of the Poets
    David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; History of England
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality; On Political Economy; Emile; The Social Contract; Confessions
    Laurence Sterne – Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
    William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England
    Immanuel Kant – Critique of Pure Reason; Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals;Critique of Practical Reason; Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace
    Edward Gibbon – The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography
    James Boswell – Journal; The Life of Samuel Johnson
    Antoine Laurent Lavoisier – Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)
    Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison – Federalist Papers (together with theArticles of Confederation; United States Constitution and United States Declaration of Independence)
    Jeremy Bentham – Comment on the Commentaries; Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Faust; Poetry and Truth
    William Wordsworth – Poems (esp. Lyrical Ballads; Lucy poems; sonnets; The Prelude)
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems (esp. Kubla Khan; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner );Biographia Literaria
    David Ricardo – On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Stendhal – The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love
Lord Byron – Don Juan
Arthur Schopenhauer – Studies in Pessimism
    Nikolai Lobachevsky – Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
    Charles Lyell – Principles of Geology
    Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy
    Honoré de Balzac – Works (esp. Le Père Goriot; Le Cousin Pons; Eugénie Grandet;Cousin Bette; César Birotteau)
    Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
    Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
    John Stuart Mill – A System of Logic; Principles of Political Economy; On Liberty;Considerations on Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women;Autobiography
    William Makepeace Thackeray – Works (esp. Vanity Fair; The History of Henry Esmond;The Virginians; Pendennis)
    Charles Dickens – Works (esp. Pickwick Papers; Our Mutual Friend; David Copperfield;Dombey and Son; Oliver Twist; A Tale of Two Cities; Hard Times)
    Claude Bernard – Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
    George Boole – The Laws of Thought
    Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience; Walden
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – Das Kapital (Capital); The Communist Manifesto
    George Eliot – Adam Bede; Middlemarch
    Herman Melville – Typee; Moby-Dick; Billy Budd
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
    Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary; Three Stories
    Henry Thomas Buckle – A History of Civilization in England
    Francis Galton – Inquiries into Human Faculties and Its Development
    Bernhard Riemann – The Hypotheses of Geometry
    Henrik Ibsen – Plays (esp. Peer Gynt; Brand; Hedda Gabler; Emperor and Galilean; A Doll's House;
    The Wild Duck; The Master Builder)
Richard Dedekind – Theory of Numbers
Wilhelm Wundt – Physiological Psychology; Outline of Psychology
    Henry Adams – History of the United States; Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres; The Education of Henry Adams; Degradation of Democratic Dogma
    Charles Peirce – Chance, Love, and Logic; Collected Papers
    William Sumner – Folkways
    Oliver Wendell Holmes – The Common Law; Collected Legal Papers
    William James – The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience;Pragmatism; A Pluralistic Universe; Essays in Radical Empiricism
    Henry James – The American; The Ambassadors
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality; The Will to Power; Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist
    Georg Cantor – Transfinite Numbers
    Jules Henri Poincaré – Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method; The Foundations of Science
    Sigmund Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams; Three Essays to the Theory of Sex;Introduction to
    Psychoanalysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The Ego and the Id; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
    George Bernard Shaw – Plays and Prefaces
    Henri Bergson – Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
    John Dewey – How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; The Quest for Certainty; Logic – The Theory of Inquiry
    Alfred North Whitehead – A Treatise on Universal Algebra; An Introduction to Mathematics;Science and the Modern World; Process and Reality; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas
    George Santayana – The Life of Reason; Scepticism and Animal Faith; The Realms of Being (which discusses the Realms of Essence, Matter and Truth); Persons and Places
    Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time (formerly translated as Remembrance of Things Past)
    Bertrand Russell – Principles of Mathematics; The Problems of Philosophy; Principia Mathematica; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits
    Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers
    James Joyce – "The Dead" in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses
    Jacques Maritain – Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; Freedom and the Modern World; A Preface to Metaphysics; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism
    Arnold J. Toynbee – A Study of History; Civilization on Trial
    Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The First Circle; Cancer Ward
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Emile
    Thorstein Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class; The Higher Learning in America; The Place of Science in Modern Civilization; Vested Interests and the State of Industrial Arts; Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times
    Franz Boas – The Mind of Primitive Man; Anthropology and Modern Life
PLATO, The Republic, Books II-V; p. 1.
ARISTOTLE, Politics, Book I; p. 17.
PLUTARCH, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, "Agis," "Cleomenes," "Tiberius Gracchus," "Caius Gracchus," and "Caius and Tiberius Gracchus and Agis and Cleomenes Compared"; p. 31.
The Bible, Old Testament, I Samuel, I Kings,
New Testament, Matthew 22:15-22, and Acts 21:1-26; p. 43.
TACITUS, The Annals, Books I, XIII-XVI; p. 57.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I-II, QQ. 90-97; p. 71.
MACHIAVELLI, The Prince; p. 87.
HOBBES, Leviathan, Introduction and ch. 13-21; p. 99.
SHAKESPEARE, King Henry the Fourth, Parts I and II; p. 117.
MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws, Preface-Book XIII; p. 133.
ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract, Books I-II;
LOCKE, Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; p. 149.
KANT, The Science of Right, Introduction and Second Part; p. 163.
J. S. MILL, Representative Government, Ch. 1-8;
The Federalist, Nos. 1-10, 15, 31, 47, 51, 68-72; p. 177.
HEGEL, Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Third Part, Subsection III (The State); p. 195.
J. S. MILL, On Liberty; p. 207.
ARCHIMEDES, On the Equilibrium of Planes, Book I, Prop. 1-7; p. 33.
NICOMACHUS, Introduction to Arithmetic, Book I, Ch. 1-16; p. 47.
ARCHIMEDES, On Floating Bodies, Book I, Postulate I, Prop. 1-7; p. 61.
PTOLEMY, The Almagest, Book I, Ch. 1-8; Book III, Ch. 3-4; p. 75.
COPERNICUS, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres, Introduction and Book I, Ch. 1-11; p. 91.
KEPLER, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Books IV and V [selections]; p. 105.
GALILEO, The Two New Sciences, Third Day [selections]; p. 117.
BACON, Novum Organum, Preface, Book I, Aph. 1-65; Book II, Aph. 1-20; p. 133.
PASCAL, Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids; p. 147.
NEWTON, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Prefaces, Definitions, Axioms; Book III, Rules, General Scholium; p. 161.
NEWTON, Optics, Book I, Part I, Definitions, Axioms, Prop. 1-2; Book III, Part I, Queries 27-31; p. 179.
HUYGENS, Treatise on Light, Preface, Ch. I-IV; p. 193.
LAVOISIER, Elements of Chemistry, Preface, Part I, Ch. I-VIII; p. 211.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound; p. 1.
PLATO, Euthyphro;
Laws, Book X; p. 17.
The Bible Old Testament, Genesis 12:1-9, 13:14-18, 18:17-33, 22:1-19;
Exodus 3-4, 6:1-8, 14-15, 19-20, 24; p. 31.
The Bible New Testament, Matthew; p. 49.
ST. AUGUSTINE, The Confessions, Book XI, Sections I-XIII; Book XII; p. 67.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I, Q. 1; Part II-II, QQ. 1-3; p. 85.
DANTE, The Divine Comedy, "Paradise"; p. 109.
HOBBES, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 12; Part II, Ch. 31; Part III, Ch. 23; p. 125.
MONTAIGNE, The Essays, "That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances," "Of Prayers," Of Liberty of Conscience"; p. 143.
MILTON, Paradise Lost, Books I-III; p. 157.
PASCAL, Pensees, Sections III-IV; p.173.
LOCKE, A Letter Concerning Toleration;
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, Ch. XVIII-XIX; p. 193.
HUME, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections X-XI; p. 209.
DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, "The Russian Monk"; p. 233.
FREUD, Civilization and Its Discontents, I-II;
New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Lecture 35; p. 251.
AESCHYLUS, Oresteia: Agamemnon; Choephoroe; Eumenides; p. 1.
PLATO, Euthyphro; Laws, Books I and IV [selections]; Apology; p. 17.
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics, Book V; p. 29.
The Bible, Old Testament, Exodus 19-20;Deuteronomy 5-6; New Testament, Matthew 15:1-20; Romans 7-8; p. 45.
ARISTOTLE, The Athenian Constitution;
PLUTARCH, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, "Solon"; p. 61.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I-II, QQ. 90, 94; p. 73.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica Part I-II, QQ. 95-97; p. 91.
HOBBES, Leviathan, Ch. 14-15, 26-28; p. 103.
SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice ; p. 123.
MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws, Books I, XIV-XVII, XXIX; p. 141.
ROUSSEAU, A Discourse on Political Economy;The Social Contract, Book II; p. 157.
KANT, The Science of Right, Part I; p. 173.
Articles of Confederation; The Constitution of the United States of America; p. 191.
HEGEL, The Philosophy of Right, Third Part, Subsection II, B (The Administration of Justice); p. 207.
DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov, Book XII, "A Judicial Error"; p. 221.
HOMER, The Odyssey ; p. 1.
EURIPIDES, Medea; Electra; Orestes; p. 25.
ARISTOPHANES, The Clouds; The Birds; The Lysistrata; p. 55.
VIRGIL, The Aeneid; p. 81.
DANTE, The Divine Comedy; p. 109.
CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales; p. 137.
RABELAIS, Gargantua and Pantagruel; p. 167.
SHAKESPEARE, Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; p. 197.
CERVANTES, The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha; p. 1.
MILTON, Paradise Lost; p. 31.
FIELDING, Tom Jones; p. 69.
GOETHE, Faust; p. 103.
MELVILLE, Moby Dick; p. 139.
DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov; p.203.
PLATO, Laches; p. 1.
PLATO, Gorgias; p. 15.
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and X; p. 37.
ARISTOTLE, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, Book III, Ch. 1-5; p. 53.
EPICTETUS, The Discourses, Book I; p. 71.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I-II, "Treatise on the Last End", QQ. 1-5; p. 89.
HOBBES, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 6, 8, 10-11, 13-15; p. 107.
MONTAIGNE, The Essays, "That to study philosophy is to learn to die," "Of moderation," "Of cannibals," "That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life," "That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them," "Of drunkenness," "Of cruelty," "Of glory," "Of virtue," "Of anger," "Of repentance"; p. 129.
SPINOZA, Ethics, Part V; p. 157.
LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Ch. 2; Book II, Ch. 20, Ch. 21, Sections 42-44, Ch. 28; Book III, Ch. 11, Sections 16-17; Book IV, Ch. 3, Sections 18-20; p. 183.
KANT, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals; p. 207.
KANT, The Critique of Practical Reason; p. 227.
HEGEL, The Philosophy of Right, Third Part, Subsection I, "The Family", with Additions 101-115; p. 241.
MILL, Utilitarianism; p. 257.
HIPPOCRATES, The Oath, On Ancient Medicine,On the Sacred Disease; p. 1.
PLATO, The Meno; p. 15.
ARISTOTLE, On the Soul, Book II; p. 31.
ARISTOTLE, On the Parts of Animals, Book I; p. 47.
GALEN, On the Natural Faculties, Books I and II; p. 63.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I-II, QQ. XLIX-LIV; p. 83.
HOBBES, Leviathan, Part I, Ch. 1-10; p. 107.
LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II ; p. 131.
JAMES, The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 9-10; p. 253.
JAMES, The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 25-26; p. 287.
FREUD, The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis; Selected Papers on Hysteria, Ch. 3; A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 13-14; p. 317.
FREUD, A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 20-21; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Lectures 30-31; p. 349.
PLATO, The Republic, Books V and VI, [473]-[503], Book VII, [514]-[521]; p. 1.
PLATO, The Republic, Book VI, [509]-[513]; p. 19.
ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics, Book I; p. 35.
ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics, Book IV; p. 57.
LUCRETIUS, On the Nature of Things, Books I and II; p. 73.
AQUINAS, Summa Theologica, Part I, "Treatise on God," QQ. XVI-XVII ; p. 93.
MONTAIGNE, The Essays, "Apology for Raimond de Sebonde"; p. 109.
BACON, Advancement of Learning, Book II, Ch. 5-24; p. 131.
DESCARTES, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, Parts I-IV; p. 151.
SPINOZA, Ethics, Part I; p. 173.
LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV "Of Knowledge and Probability," Ch. 1-4; p. 197.
BERKELEY, The Principles of Human Knowledge; p. 215.
HUME, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sections I-VIII; p. 231.
KANT, Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the First Edition, Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, I "Transcendental Doctrine of Elements," First Part; p. 251.
JAMES, The Principles of Psychology, Ch. 28; p. 275.

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KKKantucKKKe Statistics

#1 Most Legally Corrupt State (Harvard, 2014)
#1 State in America for highest rate of Cancer Deaths (American Cancer Society, 2006; Oxford University, 2011)
#1 Nationally for Toxic Air Pollution (2012)
#1 in America for Colorectal Cancer incidents (2007)
#1 Nationally for Binge Drinking (2012)
#1 in America for Oral Cavity and Pharynx Cancer incidents (2012)
#1 Nationally for being the Worst Run State (2010)
#1 in America for the highest rate of Lung Cancer Deaths (2007)
#1 nationally to least likely to have “healthy habits”, such as “eating healthily, exercising, and not smoking” (2009)
#1 in America for Lung and Bronchus Cancer incidents (2012)
#1 nationally for overall toothlessness (CDC, 2003)
#1 in America for Colon and Rectum Cancer incidents (2012)
#1 nationally for toothlessness for folks 65 and older (2004)
#1 in America for having the Worst “Emotional Well-being” (2012)
#1 nationally for having fastest growing prison industrial complexes (2009, Pew Center)
#1 in America for maintaining the filthiest, dirtiest public spaces (2011)
#1 nationally highest rate of child deaths from abuse and neglect (2007)
#1 Worst State for Animal Abuse, 4 years in a row (2007-2010)

#1 in America for having the Worst Drivers (2011)
#2 nationally for having most Cancer incidents in all cancer categories (2012)
#2 in America for the Worst Overall Well-Being in America (2012)
#2 nationally for Kidney and Renal Pelvis Cancer incidents (2012)
#3 in the United States of America for Brain Cancer (2012)
#3 nationally for the most car wrecks (2011)
#3 Most Illegally Corrupt State (Harvard, 2014)
#3 nationally for having the most folks below the poverty line (18.6%) (2010)
#3 in America for lowest per capita spending on P-12 Education (2008-2009)
#4 nationally in lowest median household income ($40,072) (2010)
#5 worst state in America for women to live (2012)
Top 5 Poorest States in America (2012)
#7 most fatalities because of car wrecks (2011)
#7 least government money spent to prevent mental illness (2013)
#8 state for having the lowest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (2010)
#8 nationally in America for Brain and Other Nervous-System Cancer Deaths (2007)
#8 in America for Cervix Cancer incidents (2012)
#9 nationally for cops charging the most DUIs (2011)
#10 in America for having the highest number of students on free or reduced-priced meals (2009-2010)

http://thekentuckyrevolution.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-ole-kentucky-home.html

the Harvard study ranked Kentucky the third worst in the country for illegal corruption, and the very worst for legal corruption
http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/harvard-study-kentuckys-state-government-one-corrupt-country/

$1,308 per person annually if corruption was reduced to an average level, relative to other states.

http://www.wkyt.com/wymt/home/headlines/Study-Kentucky-one-of-most-politically-corrupt-states-266847841.html http://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/measuring-illegal-and-legal-corruption-american-states-some-results-safra 

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