The Bible
Homer, Iliad, Odyssey
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides
Sophocles, Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
Euripides, Bacchae
Aristophanes, Frogs
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Parmenides, On Nature
Plato, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium
Aristotle, Metaphysics, Nichomachean Ethics (selections) , On the Soul (selections), Poetics
Vergil, Aeneid
Livy, The History of Rome (selections)
St. Clement, Letter to the Corinthians
St. Ignatius, Letters to the Ephesians, Letters to the Romans
St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation
St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies
St. Augustine, Confessions
Boethius, On the Consolation of Philosophy
Beowulf
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
St. Thomas Aquinas, On Essence and Existence, Summa Theologiae (selections)
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Everyman & The Second Shepherd's Play
Thomas More, Utopia
Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Tempest
Council of Trent (selections)
René Descartes, Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Immanuel Kant, A Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, What is Enlightenment?
Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie (selections)
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (selections)
Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, The Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison The Federalist Papers
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Hegel, Phenomenology of the Spirit
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Abraham Lincoln, Selected Speeches
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Vatican I (selections)
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Frederick Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, The Use and Abuse of History for Life
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? The Question Concerning Technology
George F. Kennan, American Diplomacy
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
Eli Wiesel, Night
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Vatican II, Lumen Gentium
Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus