I think it's time to get prepared for the next year of Great Books. As I did last year, I'll include links to online versions when I can find them. I'll use Project Gutenberg when I can, otherwise I'll go with what looks best on a cursory basis.
January
Euripides:
February
Plato: Republic (books 6-8) link
Plato: Theaetetus link
March
Aristotle: Physics (book 4, chapters 1-5, 10-14) link
Aristotle: Metaphysics (book 1, chapter 1-2, book 4, book 6 chapter 1, book 11 chapter 1-4) link
April
St Augustine: Confessions (books 9-13) link
St Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica (part 1, QQ 16-17 and 84-88) link
May
Montaigne: Apology for Raimond de Sebonde link
June
Galileo: Two New Sciences (third day through Scholium of Theorem II) link
Bacon: Novum Organum (Preface, Book 1) link
July
Descartes: Discourse on the Method link
Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (prefaces, definitions, axioms, general scholium) link
August
Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (book 2) link
September
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding link
Kant: A Critique of Pure Reason (prefaces, introduction, transcendental aesthetic) link
October
Melville: Moby Dick link
November
Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (part 3 and 4) link
December
James: Principles of Psychology (chapters 15 and 20) link
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