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ShareTHE GREAT BOOKS AT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
Apollonius: Conics
Archimedes: Selected Works
Aristophanes: Clouds, Birds
Aristotle: Basic Works
Austen: Emma
Bacon: Novum Organum
Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge
Boethius: Consolation of Philosophy
Cervantes: Don Quixote
Chacer: Canterbury Tales
Cicero: De Officiis, On Friendship
Copernicus: Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
Corneille: Le Cid
Dante: Divine Comedy
Darwin: Origin of Species, Descent of Man
Declaration of Independence
Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Discourse on Method, Geometry, Meditations
DeTocqueville: Democracy in America
Donne: Poems
Dostoyevski: The Brothers Karamazov
Einstein: Relativity: the Special and General Theory
Euclid: Elements
Euripides: Hippolytus
Fabre: Souvenirs Entomologiques
Federalist Papers
Feuerbach: Essence of Christianity
Freud: A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Galen: On the Natural Faculties
Galileo: Dialogue Concerning Two World Systems, On Motion, Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences
Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Goethe: Faust
Harvey: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
Hegel: Philosophy of History, Phenomenology
Herodotus: The Histories
Hobbes: Leviathan
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Hume: Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Huygens: Treatise on Light
James: Psychology, A Briefer Course
Jung: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason
Kepler: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Keynes: General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
Lavoisier: Treatise on Chemistry
Leibniz: Discourse on Metaphysics
Linnaeus: Systema Naturae
Lobachevski: Theory of Parallels
Locke: Concerning Human Understanding, Second Essay On Civil Government
Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses
Martin of Denmark: Tractus de Modus Significandi
Marx: Capital, Communist Manifesto
Melville: Moby Dick
Mendel: Plant Hybridization
Milton: Paradise Lost
Montaigne: Essays
Newman: Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Newton: Principia, Optics
Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil
Papal Encyclicals
Pascal: Pensees
Plato: Dialogues
Plutarch: Lives
Porphyry: On the Predicaments
Ptolemy: Almagest
Racine: Phaedre
Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Saint Anselm: Proslogion
Saint Athanasius: On the Incarnation
Saint Augustine: Confessions, City of God, On Christian Doctrine
Saint John Damascene: The Orthodox Faith
Saint Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica, On the Rule of Princes, On Truth and Falsity, On the Teacher, On Kingship (On Aristotle's Works)
Schwann: Microscopical Researches
Shakespeare: Plays and Sonnets
Smith: Wealth of Nations
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Spenser: Faerie Queene
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise
Swift: Gulliver's Travels
Tacitus: Annals
The Bible
Thucydides: Peloponnesian War
Tinbergen: The Evolution of Behavior in Gulls
Tolstoy: War and Peace
United States Constitution
Vergil: Aeneid
Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations
"The Thomas Aquinas College curriculum is a sweeping tour of the greatest and most influential works of Western civilization, surely one of the most rigorous curriculums of any school in the nation."—National Review College Guide: America's 50 Top Liberal Arts Schools
For information on Thomas Aquinas College, whose curriculum integrates faith and reason in a way unique in American higher education, call or write:
Thomas Susanka, Director of Admissions
Thomas Aquinas College
10,000 North Ojai Road
Santa Paula, California 93060
(800) 634-9797
