Ten Years of Reading in theGreat Books of the Western World

SEVENTH YEAR (1200 pages, or 109 pages per month)January:1. OLD TESTAMENT [Job, Isaiah, Amos]

(33 + 63 + 7 = 103 pages)February:2. PLATO: Symposium

Vol. 7, pp. 149-173 (25 pages)3. PLATO: Philebus

Vol. 7, pp. 609-639 (31 pages)4. ARISTOTLE: Ethics [Book VIII-X]

Vol. 9, pp. 406-436 (31 pages)5. ARCHIMEDES: Measurement of a Circle, The Equilibrium of Planes [Book I], The Sand-

Recokoner, On Floating Bodies [Book I]Vol. 11, pp. 447-451, 502-509, 520-526, 538-542 (5 + 8 + 7 + 5 = 25 pages)

March:6. EPICTETUS: Discourses

Vol. 12, pp. 105-245 (141 pages)April:7. PLOTINUS: First Ennead

Vol. 17, pp. 1-34 (34 pages)8. ST. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologica [Part I-II, QQ 1-5]

Vol. 19, p. 609-643 (35 pages)9. DANTE: The Divine Comedy [Paradise]

Vol. 21, pp. 106-157 (52 pages)May-June:10. RABELAIS: Gargantual and Pantagruel [Book III-IV]

Vol. 24, pp. 127-312 (186 pages)July:11. SHAKESPEARE: Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus

Vol. 26, pp. 568-596; Vol. 27, pp. 311-392 (29 + 82 = 111 pages)August:12. GALILEO: Two New Sciences [First Day]

Vol. 28, pp. 131-177 (47 pages)13. SPINOZA: Ethics [Part IV-V]

Vol. 31, pp. 422-463 (42 pages)September:14. NEWTON: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy [Book III, Rules], Optics [Book

I, Part I; Book III, Queries]Vol. 34, pp. 270-271, 379-423, 516-544 (2 + 45 + 29 = 76 pages)

15. HUYGENS: Treatise on LightVol. 34, pp. 551-619 (69 pages)

October:16. KANT: Critique of Practical Reason

Vol. 42, pp. 291-361 (71 pages)November:17. KANT: Critique of Judgement [Critique of Aesthetic Judegment]

Vol. 42, pp. 461-549 (89 pages)

December:18. MILL: Utilitarianism

Vol. 43, pp. 445-476 (32 pages)