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Author |
Beatty, John Louis |
Title |
Heritage of Western Civilization |
Shelf Location |
History/General |
Link to Scanned Copy |
https://archive.org/details/heritageofwester0000john |
Summary |
Slected readings on Western Civilization. History of Herodotus / Herodotus. -- History of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides. -- Antigone / Sophocles. -- Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo / Socrates. -- The Republic / Plato. -- Nicomachean ethics; The Politics / Aristotle. -- The Histories / Polybius. -- De Rerum natura / Lucretius. -- Life of Caesar / Plutarch. -- The enchiridion / Epictetus. -- Satire III / Juvenal. -- Genesis ; Exodus ; First Book of Kings; Isaiah; Ezekiel; Book of Job / Old Testament. -- St. Matthew; Acts of the Apostles; Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans / New Testament. -- Confessions ; Enchiridion / St. Augustine. -- Rule of St. Benedict / St. Benedict. -- Life of the Emperor Charles / Einhard. -- Rights and rans of people; Surveys of Cetain Manors belonging the the Abbey of Peterborough / Manorialism. -- Song-story of Aucussin and Nicolete / Aucussin ; Nicolete. -- 253 / Magna Carta. -- Little flowers of St. Francis / Francis of Assisi. -- Second letter of Gregory VII to Herman, Bishop of Metz; The bull Unum Sanctum of Boniface VIII / Papal political documents. -- Summa contra gentiles; summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas. -- Chronicles / John Froissart. --On the dignity of man / Pico della Mirandola. -- The prince / Niccolo Macchiavelli. -- Life of Benvenuto Cellini / Benvenuto Cellini. -- In praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. -- An open letter to the Christian nobility of the German nation concerning the reform of the Christian estate / Martin Luther. -- Canons and decrees of the Council of Trent. -- Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -- Novum Organum / Francis Bacon. -- Discourse on method / Rene Descartes. -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes. -- Politics drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture / Bishop Bossuet. -- Memoirs of the financial affairs of Frane to serve as a history; Louis XIV to the municipal magistrats and inhabitants of Marseiles; Proposal and useful advice concerning the commerce of Holland / Jean-Baptiste Colbert. -- Optics; Mathematical principles of natural philosophy / Isaac Newton. -- Of civil government; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke Philosophical dictionary; Candide, or the optimist / Voltaire. -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith. -- The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau. -- Cahier of the clergy of Dourdan; Cahier of the nobles of Dourdan; Cahier of the third estate of Dourdan; The August 4 Decrees. -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke. -- Prometheus / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. -- Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth. -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus. -- The Philosophy of right / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. -- The Sadler report. -- Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx ; Friedrich Engels. -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill. -- Origin of Species; Descent of Man / Charles Darwin. -- The challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner. -- The Will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Expansion and peace / Theodore Roosevelt. -- Socialism: true and false / Sidney Webb. -- Outline of Psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud. --What is to be done ; State and revolution / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler. -- The doctrine of Fascism / Benito Mussolini. -- Liberalism and social action / John Dewey. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell. -- Science and the modern world / Alfred North Whitehead |
Subjects |
History of Herodotus / Herodotus. -- History of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides. -- Antigone / Sophocles. -- Apology ; Crito ; Phaedo / Socrates. -- The Republic / Plato. -- Nicomachean ethics; The Politics / Aristotle. -- The Histories / Polybius. -- De Rerum natura / Lucretius. -- Life of Caesar / Plutarch. -- The enchiridion / Epictetus. -- Satire III / Juvenal. -- Genesis ; Exodus ; First Book of Kings; Isaiah; Ezekiel; Book of Job / Old Testament. -- St. Matthew; Acts of the Apostles; Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans / New Testament. -- Confessions ; Enchiridion / St. Augustine. -- Rule of St. Benedict / St. Benedict. -- Life of the Emperor Charles / Einhard. -- Rights and rans of people; Surveys of Cetain Manors belonging the the Abbey of Peterborough / Manorialism. -- Song-story of Aucussin and Nicolete / Aucussin ; Nicolete. -- 253 / Magna Carta. -- Little flowers of St. Francis / Francis of Assisi. -- Second letter of Gregory VII to Herman, Bishop of Metz; The bull Unum Sanctum of Boniface VIII / Papal political documents. -- Summa contra gentiles; summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas. -- Chronicles / John Froissart. --On the dignity of man / Pico della Mirandola. -- The prince / Niccolo Macchiavelli. -- Life of Benvenuto Cellini / Benvenuto Cellini. -- In praise of folly / Desiderius Erasmus. -- An open letter to the Christian nobility of the German nation concerning the reform of the Christian estate / Martin Luther. -- Canons and decrees of the Council of Trent. -- Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -- Novum Organum / Francis Bacon. -- Discourse on method / Rene Descartes. -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes. -- Politics drawn from the very words of Holy Scripture / Bishop Bossuet. -- Memoirs of the financial affairs of Frane to serve as a history; Louis XIV to the municipal magistrats and inhabitants of Marseiles; Proposal and useful advice concerning the commerce of Holland / Jean-Baptiste Colbert. -- Optics; Mathematical principles of natural philosophy / Isaac Newton. -- Of civil government; An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke Philosophical dictionary; Candide, or the optimist / Voltaire. -- An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith. -- The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau. -- Cahier of the clergy of Dourdan; Cahier of the nobles of Dourdan; Cahier of the third estate of Dourdan; The August 4 Decrees. -- Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke. -- Prometheus / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. -- Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth. -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Malthus. -- The Philosophy of right / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. -- The Sadler report. -- Manifesto of the Communist Party / Karl Marx ; Friedrich Engels. -- On Liberty / John Stuart Mill. -- Origin of Species; Descent of Man / Charles Darwin. -- The challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner. -- The Will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Expansion and peace / Theodore Roosevelt. -- Socialism: true and false / Sidney Webb. -- Outline of Psychoanalysis / Sigmund Freud. --What is to be done ; State and revolution / Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. -- Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler. -- The doctrine of Fascism / Benito Mussolini. -- Liberalism and social action / John Dewey. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell. -- Science and the modern world / Alfred North Whitehead |
Publisher |
Prentice-Hall, Inc. |
Published Date |
1958 |
Published Place |
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey USA |
Physical Description |
Hard Cover 25 x 18 cm 704 pp |
Language |
English |
Catalog Number |
2025.5.184 |
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Object Name |
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