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Posterior Analytics

Topics

On Sophistical Refutations

Physics

On the Heavens

On Generation and Corruption

Meteorology

On Sense and the Reminiscence

On Sleep and Sleeplessness

On Dreams

On Prophesying

On Longevity and Shortness of Life

On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing

 

VOLUME 8

Aristotle II (C. 384-322 BC)

History of Animals

On the Parts of Animals; On the Motion of Animals; On the Gait of Animals; On the Generation of Animals; Nicomachean Ethics; Politics; The Athenian Constitution; Rhetoric; On Poetics

 

VOLUME 9

Hippocrates (FL. 400 BC) The Oath; On Ancient Medicine; On Airs, Waters, and Places; The Book of Prognostics; On Regimen in Acute Diseases; Of the Epidemics; On Injuries of the Head; On the Surgery; On Fractures; On the Articulations; Instruments of Reduction; Aphorisms; The Law; On Ulcers; On Fistulae; On Hemorrhoids; On the Sacred Disease; On Flatulence.

Galen (C. AD 130-200) On the Natural Faculties

 

VOLUME 10

Euclid (FL. C. 300 BC)

The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements

Archimedes (C. 287-212 BC) On the Sphere and Cylinder; Measurement of a Circle; On Conoids and Spheroids; On Spirals; On the Equilibrium of Planes; The Sand-Reckoner; Quadrature of the Parabola; On Floating Bodies; Book of Lemmas; The Method Treating of Mechanical Problems

 

VOLUME 11

Lucretius (C. 98-C. 55 BC)

The Way Things Are

Epictetus (C. 60-C. 138 AD)  The Discourses

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) The Meditations

Plotinus (205-270 AD) The Six Enneads

 

VOLUME 12

Virgil (70-19 BC)

The Eclogues (Bucolicon)

The Georgics

The Aeneid

From Bucolicon:

Me. Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi

Silvestrem tenuis Musam medtaris avena:

Nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva;

Nos patriam fugimus: tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra

Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas.

 

Meliboeus:

You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy

Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse

Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,

And home's familiar bounds, even now depart.

Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you

Sit careless in the shade, and, at your call,

"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.

 

VOLUME 13

Plutarch (C. 46-C. 120) Life of Theseus; Life of Romulus; Romulus and Theseus Compared; Life of  Lycurgus; Numas Pompilius; Lycurgus and Numa Compared; Solon; Poplicola; Poplicola and Solon Compared; Themistocles; Camillus; Pericles; Fabius; Fabius and Pericles Compared; Alcibiades; Coriolanus; Alcibiades and Coriolanus Compared; Timoleon; Aemilius Paulus; Aemilius Paulus and Timoleon Compared; Pelopidas; Marcellus; Marcellus and Pelopidas Compared; Aristides; Marcus Cato; Aristide and Marcus Cato Compared

Philopoeman; Flamininus; Flamininus and Philopoeman Compared; Pyrrhus; Caius Marius; Lysander; Sulla

Lysander and Sulla Compared; Cimon; Lucullus; Cimon and Lucullus Compared; Nicias; Crassus; Crassus and Nicias Compared; Sertorius; Eumenus; Eumenus and Sertorius Compared; Agesilaus; Pompey; Agesilaus and Pompey Compared

Plutarch (C. 46-C. 120) Alexander; Caesar; Phocion; Cato the Younger; Agis; Cleomenes; Tiberius Gracchus; Caius Gracchus; Caius and Tiberius Gracchus and Agis and Cleomenes Compared; Demosthenes; Cicero; Cicero and Demosthenes Compared; Demetrius; Antony; Antony and Demetrius Compared; Dion; Marcus Brutus Brutus and Dion Compared; Aratus; Artaxerxes; Galba; Otho

 

VOLUME 14

Tacitus (C. 55-C. 117) The Annals; The Histories

 

VOLUME 15

Ptolemy (C. 100-C. 178) The Almagest

Copernicus (1473–1543) On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Kepler (1571-1630) Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: IV – V; The Harmonies of the World: V

 

VOLUME 16

Augustine (354-430) The Confessions; The City of God; On Christian Doctrine;

 

VOLUME 17

Aquinas I (c. 1225 – 1724) Treatise on God; Treatise on the Trinity; Treatise on the Creation; Treatise on the Angels; Treatise of the Work of the Six Days; Treatise on Man; Treatise on the Divine Government; Treatise on the Last End; Treatise on Human Acts

 

VOLUME 18

Aquinas II Treatise on Habits; Treatise on Law; Treatise on Grace; Treatise on Faith, Hope and Charity; Treatise on Active and Contemplative; Treatise on the States of Life; Treatise on the Incarnation; Treatise on the Sacraments; Treatise on the Resurrection; Treatise on the Last Things

 

VOLUME 19

Dante (1265 – 1321)

The Divine Comedy;

Chaucer (C. 1340 – 1400) Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales

 

VOLUME 20

Calvin (1509 – 1564) Institutes of the Christian Religion

 

VOLUME 21

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) The Prince

Hobbes (1588 – 1679)Leviathan, or, Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil

 

VOLUME 22

François Rabelais (C.1495 – 1553) Gargantua and Pantagruel

 

VOLUME 23

Desiderius Erasmus (C.1467 – C. 1536) Praise of Folly

Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) The Essays

 

VOLUME 24

William Shakespeare I (1564 – 1616)  King Henry the Sixth; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Comedy of Errors; Titus Andronicus; The Taming on the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Romeo and Juliet; The Tragedy of King Richard the Second; A Midsummer-Night’s Dream; The Life and Death of King John; The Merchant of Venice; The First Part of King Henry the Fourth; The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth; Much Ado About Nothing; The Life of King Henry the Fifth; Julius Caesar; As You Like It

 

VOLUME 25

Shakespeare II

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Troilus and Cressida; All’s Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Othello, the Moor of Venice; King Lear; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; Coroilanus; Timon of Athens; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Cymbeline; The Winter’s Tale; The Tempest; The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; Sonnets

 

VOLUME 26

William Gilbert (1540 – 1603): On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies

Galleleo Galilei (1564 – 1642): Concerning the Two New Sciences

William Harvey (1578 – 1657):  On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals

 

VOLUME 27

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616): The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

 

VOLUME 28

Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626): Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum; New Atlantis

Descartes (1596 – 1650): Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objections Against the Meditations, and Replies; The Geometry

Spinoza (1632 – 1677): Ethics

 

VOLUME 29

John Milton (1608 – 1674): English Minor Poems; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes; Areopagitica

 

VOLUME 30

Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662): The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises

 

VOLUME 31

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622 – 1673):  The School for Wives; The Critique of the School for Wives; Tartuffe; Don Juan; The Miser; The Would-Be Gentleman; The Would-Be Invalid

Racine (1639 – 1699): Berenice; Phaedra

 

VOLUME 32

Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics

Christiaan Huygens (1629 – 1695): Treatise on Light

 

VOLUME 33

Locke (1632 – 1704): A Letter Concerning Toleration Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Berkeley (1685 – 1763): The Principles of Human Knowledge

Hume (1711 – 1776):  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

 

VOLUME 34

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745):  Gulliver’s Travels

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694 – 1778): Candide

Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784): Rameau’s Nephew

 

VOLUME 35

Montesquieu (1689 – 1755): The Spirit of Laws

Rousseau (1712 – 1778): On the Origin of Inequality; On Political Economy; The Social Contract

 

VOLUME 36

Adam Smith (1723 – 1790): An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

 

VOLUME 37

Edward Gibbon I (1737 – 1794) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I

 

VOLUME 38

Gibbon II: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II

 

VOLUME 39

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804): The Critique of Pure Reason; The Critique of Practical Reason; The Critique of Judgment

 

VOLUME 40

American State Papers: The Declaration of Independence; Articles of Confederation; The Constitution of the United States of America

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), James Madison (1751-1836), John Jay (1745-1829): The Federalist

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism

 

VOLUME 41

James Boswell (1740-1795): The Life of Samuel Johnson, LLD

 

VOLUME 42

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794): Elements in Chemistry

Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Experimental Researches in Electricity

 

VOLUME 43

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831): The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): Fear and Trembling

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Beyond Good and Evil

 

VOLUME 44

Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859): Democracy in America

 

VOLUME 45

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832): Faust

Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850): Cousin Bette

 

VOLUME 46

Austen, Jane (1775-1817): Emma

Eliot, George (1819-1880): Middlemarch

 

VOLUME 47

Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Little Dorrit

 

VOLUME 48

Herman Melville (1819-1891): Moby Dick

Mark Twain (1835-1910): Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

VOLUME 49

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

 

VOLUME 50

Karl Marx (1818-1883) Das Kapital

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Manifesto of the Communist Party

 

VOLUME 51

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) War and Peace

 

VOLUME 52

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) The Brothers Karamazov

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) A Doll’s House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder

 

VOLUME 53

William James (1842-1910) The Principles of Psychology

 

VOLUME 54

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis; Selected Papers on Hysteria (Chapters 1-10); The Sexual Enlightenment of Children; The Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic Therapy; Observations on “Wild” Psycho-Analysis; The Interpretations of Dreams; On Narcissism; Instincts and Their Vicissitudes; Repression; The Unconscious; A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego; The Ego and the Id; Inhibitions, Symptons, and Anxiety

Thoughts for the Times on War and Death; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

 

VOLUME 55—20th Century Philosophy and Religion

William James (1842-1910): Pragmatism

Henri Bergson (1859-1941): Introduction to Metaphysics

John Dewey (1859-1952): Experience and Education

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947): Science and the Modern World

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): The Problems of Philosophy

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): “What is Metaphysics?”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): Philosophical Investigations

Karl Barth (1886-1968): The Word of God and the Word of Man

 

VOLUME 56 —20th Century Science

Henri Poincaré (1858-1912): Science and Hypothesis

Max Planck (1858-1947): Scientific Autobiography

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947): Introduction to Mathematics

Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944): The Expanding Universe

Niels Bohr (1885-1962):  Atomic Theory: The Descriptions of Nature (selections) Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics”

G.H. Hardy (1887-1947): A Mathematician’s Apology

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976): Physics and Philosophy

Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961): What Is Life?

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975): Genetics and the Origin of Species

C.H. Waddington (1905-1975): The Nature of Life

 

VOLUME 57

20th Century Social Science I

Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): The Theory of the Leisure Class

R.H. Tawney (1880-1962): The Acquisitive Society

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946): General Theory of Employment,

Interest and Money

 

VOLUME 58

20th Century Social Science II

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941): Selections from the Golden Bough:  chapters I-IV, LXVI-LXIX.

Max Weber (1864-1920): Selections from Essays in Sociology: Part I: Science and Politics; Part II: Power; Part III: Religion

Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): The Waning of the Middle Ages

Claude Levi-Strauss (1908- ): Selections from Structural Anthropology: Chapters I-VI, IX-XII, XV, XVII

 

VOLUME 59

20th Century Imaginative Literature I

Henry James (1843-1916): “The Beast in the Jungle”

Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Saint Joan

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904): Uncle Vanya

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1922): Six Characters in Search of an Author

Marcel Proust (1871-1922): Swann in Love from Remembrance of Things Past

Willa Cather (1873-1947): A Lost Lady

Thomas Mann (1875-1955): Death in Venice

James Joyce (1882-1941): Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

 

VOLUME 60

20th Century Imaginative Literature II

Virginia Woolf (1883-1941): To the Lighthouse

Franz Kafka (1883-1924): “The Metamorphosis”

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930): “The Prussian Officer”

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965): “The Waste Land”

Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953): Mourning Becomes Electra

William Faulkner (1897-1962): “A Rose for Emily”

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956): “Mother Courage and Her Children”

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961): “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989): “Waiting for Godot”

 

 

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