Although some of you are doing everything possible to prove me wrong, I stand by my premise that you can’t read all the Great Books. There just isn’t enough time even for the most dedicated bibliophile. You must make discerning choices about what literary wells you drink from. However, in A Students Guided to Liberal Learning James V. Schall recommends the following titles as “classic texts never to be left unread.”
1) Gorgias, by Plato
2) Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
3) Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
4) The Confessions, by Augustine
5) Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke
6) The Republic, by Plato
7) The City of God, by Augustine
The Summa Theologiae, by Thomas Aquinas
What classic texts would you add to his list?
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