Pepperdine University

Great Books I:

Homer, The Iliad

Homer, The Odyssey

Sophocles, Antigone

Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays

Sophocles, Medea

Sophocles, Medea and Other Plays

Plato, The Republic

Aristotle, The Nicomachaean Ethics

Aristotle, Introduction to Aristotle

Virgil, The Aeneid

St. Augustine, City of God

The Holy Bible

Great Books II:

Dante, The Inferno

Dante, The Purgatorio

Dante, The Paradiso

Shakespeare, Volpone

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Shakespeare, Richard III

Shakespeare, King Lear

Shakespeare, As You Like It

Machiavelli, The Prince

Luther, Martin Luther: Selections From His Writings

Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Great Books III:

Milton, Paradise Lost

Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity

Rousseau, The Creed of a Priest of Savoy

Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Voltaire, Candide

Jane Austen, Emma

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Wordsworth, The Prelude

Goethe, Faust

Great Books IV:

Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

Tillich, Dynamics of Faith

Buber, I and Thou

WM James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Darwin, The Origin of Species

Marx, The Portable Karl Marx