Introduction

GreatLogos is a place to read the Great Books slowly and think alongside them. Pick a work from the library, read a chapter at a time, and select any passage to have it explained plainly or to discuss it with a tutor who asks questions rather than handing over answers. Your highlights and notes become annotations; the tutor keeps a notebook for each work; and the Ideas map shows how the questions you are reading about connect across the whole tradition.

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Library

Adam Smith

Aeschylus

Albert Einstein

Alexandre Dumas

Alexis de Tocqueville

Antoine Lavoisier

Aquinas

Archimedes

Aristophanes

Aristotle

Augustine

Berkeley

Blaise Pascal

Calvin

Charles Darwin

Charles Dickens

Chaucer

Christiaan Huygens

Cornelius Tacitus

Dante

David Hume

Descartes

Edmund Burke

Edward Gibbon

Epictetus

Euclid

Euripides

François Rabelais

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Galen

Galileo Galilei

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hamilton, Madison, Jay

Henrik Ibsen

Henry David Thoreau

Herman Melville

Herodotus

Hesiod

Hippocrates

Homer

Horace

  • Ars Poetica John Conington's verse translation (1869).
  • Epistles John Conington's verse translation (1869).
  • Epodes Christopher Smart's literal prose translation (1756).
  • Odes Christopher Smart's literal prose translation (1756).
  • Satires John Conington's verse translation (1869); Satires I.2 and I.8, which Conington omitted, are supplied in Christopher Smart's prose (1756) and marked as such.

Immanuel Kant

Isaac Newton

Jane Austen

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Locke

John Milton

John Stuart Mill

Jonathan Swift

Joseph Fourier

Karl Marx

  • Capital Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

King James Bible

Leo Tolstoy

Locke

Lucretius

Machiavelli

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • On Friendship Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1903)
  • On Old Age Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (1903)
  • On the Republic George Featherstonhaugh (1829); Book VI (Scipio's Dream) from Francis Barham & Charles Duke Yonge (Harper, 19th c.).

Mary Shelley

Michael Faraday

Michel de Montaigne

Miguel de Cervantes

Montesquieu

Plato

Plotinus

Plutarch

Ralph Waldo Emerson

René Descartes

Shakespeare

Sigmund Freud

Sophocles

Spinoza

Tacitus

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas More

Thomas Paine

Thucydides

United States

Virgil

William Gilbert

William Harvey

William James

William Shakespeare