Year Two Schedule
Week 1 (December 30, 2013 - January 5, 2014)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ch. 102-132 (GBWW Vol. 48, pp. 204-246)
- “Of Repentance” by Michel de Montaigne (GBWW Vol. 23, pp. 429-436)
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind by René Descartes, XII-XVI (GBWW Vol. 28, pp. 240-257; Here is a volume containing the entire text.)
- “Of Seditions and Troubles” by Francis Bacon (GGB Vol. 7, pp. 12-17)
- “Probability” by Pierre Simon de Laplace (GGB Vol. 9, pp. 325-338; Chapters I-IV of A Philosophical Essay on Probability)
- The Politics of Aristotle, Book VII (GBWW Vol. 8, pp. 527-542)
Week 2
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- Moby Dick_ by Herman Melville, Ch. 133-Epilogue (GBWW Vol. 48, pp. 246-260)
- “Great Men and Their Environment” by William James (GGB Vol. 7, pp. 171-194)
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind by René Descartes, XVII-XXI (GBWW Vol. 28, pp. 257-262; I could not find a complete version of this work online, but this site contains at least the summary of each rule. Here is a volume containing the entire text.)
- Antigone by Sophocles (GBWW Vol. 4, pp. 159-174)
- “On the Conservation of Force” by H.L.F. von Helmholtz (GGB Vol. 9, pp. 451-484)
- The Politics of Aristotle, Book VIII (GBWW Vol. 8, pp. 542-548)
Week 3
- “I’m a Fool” by Sherwood Anderson (GGB Vol. 2, pp. 511-520)
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Book I (GBWW Vol. 5, pp. 349-386)
- “Of Beauty” by Francis Bacon (GGB Vol. 5, p. 94)
- “First Inaugural Address” by Thomas Jefferson (GGB Vol. 6, pp. 518-521)
- What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger, Preface-Ch. 2 (GBWW Vol. 56, pp. 467-480)
- The City of God by St. Augustine, Book I (GBWW Vol. 16, pp. 165-187; in the linked text, it’s the material under the heading “Augustin censures the pagans” and its subheads)
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