I thought it might be handy to post the list for the rest of the year, in case anyone wants to work out of order. It looks like each year of the reading list includes at least one long piece of literature, and you can see that 'Gulliver's Travels' is coming up in October. I haven't read it before (shame on me!) but it looks like good beach reading. The political stuff (Hobbes, Milton and Mill at least) all look very good. And I'm very curious about Pascal and his many Pensees.
Should be exciting work!
July
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations link
August
Hobbes: Leviathan (Part 1) link
Milton: Areopagitica link
September
Pascal: Pensees (72, 82-83, 100, 128, 131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 277, 282, 289, 298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416, 418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571, 586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644, 673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737, 760, 768, 792-793)* link
Pascal: Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle link
*think of these as being like 'proverbs'
October
Swift: Gulliver's Travels link
November
Rousseau: A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality link
Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals link
December
Mill: On Liberty link
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