Western Canon

[Anonymous No.14551995]

Where is the best place to start for the Western Canon? Which books are essential to the canon?

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[Anonymous No.14552003]

Old Testament, Illiad and the Odyssey. After that just follow Mortimer's canon order.

[Anonymous No.14552007]

The Western Canon was rendered obsolete by Rene Guenon (pbuh), whom you should start with

[Anonymous No.14552033]

>>14552007
Or he could read something that wasn't written by a french baboon.

[Anonymous No.14552042]

>>14552003
How far into it have you gotten? Have you enjoyed it so far?

[Anonymous No.14552140]

>>14551995
Pic is very related.

[Anonymous No.14552156]

>>14551995
Harold Bloom's book

[Anonymous No.14552252]

>>14552140
>>14551995
delete

[Anonymous No.14553371]

>>14551995
>Where is the best place to start for the Western Canon?
The greeks

[Anonymous No.14554750]

>>14552003
This but The Epic of Gilgamesh before the Old Testament.

[Anonymous No.14555795]

>>14552252
Hurr Durr da da West Point Da
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OOT West Poont EEEEE

[Anonymous No.14556010]

>>14551995
This, then start with the Greeks. (learn Greek first)

[Anonymous No.14556021]

>>14556010
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.14556054]

>>14554750
nice

[Anonymous No.14556068]

HOMER: Iliad, Odyssey
AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides, Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes, Ajax
THUCYDIDES: Peloponnesian War
EURIPIDES: Hippolytus, Bacchae
HERODOTUS: Histories
ARISTOPHANES: Clouds
PLATO (SOCRATES): Meno, Gorgias, Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, Phaedrus
ARISTOTLE: Poetics, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, Politics, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals
EUCLID: Elements
LUCRETIUS: On the Nature of Things
PLUTARCH: Lycurgus, Solon
NICOMACHUS: Arithmetic
LAVOISIER: Elements of Chemistry
HARVEY: Motion of the Heart and Blood
THE BIBLE: New Testament only
ARISTOTLE: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
APOLLONIUS: Conics
VIRGIL: Aeneid
PLUTARCH: “Caesar,” “Cato the Younger,” “Antony,” “Brutus”
EPICTETUS: Discourses, Manual
TACITUS: Annals
PTOLEMY: Almagest
PLOTINUS: The Enneads
AUGUSTINE: Confessions
MAIMONIDES: Guide for the Perplexed
ST. ANSELM: Proslogium
AQUINAS: Summa Theologica
DANTE: Divine Comedy
CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales
MACHIAVELLI: The Prince, Discourses
KEPLER: Epitome IV
RABELAIS: Gargantua and Pantagruel
PALESTRINA: Missa Papae Marcelli
MONTAIGNE: Essays
VIETE: Introduction to the Analytical Art
BACON: Novum Organum
DESCARTES: Geometry, Discourse on Method
PASCAL: Generation of Conic Sections
GALILEO: Two New Sciences
HOBBES: Leviathan
DESCARTES: Meditations, Rules for the Direction of the Mind
MILTON: Paradise Lost
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maximes
LA FONTAINE: Fables
PASCAL: Pensees
HUYGENS: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
ELIOT: Middlemarch
SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise
LOCKE: Complete Works
RACINE: Phaedre
NEWTON: Principia Mathematica
KEPLER: Epitome IV
LEIBNIZ: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay On Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace
HUME: Complete Works
ROUSSEAU: Complete Works
MOLIERE: Le Misanthrope
ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations
KANT: Complete Works
JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
DEDEKIND: Essay on the Theory of Numbers
Articles of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America
HAMILTON, JAY AND MADISON: The Federalist
WORDSWORTH: The Two Part Prelude of 1799
GOETHE: Complete works
DARWIN: Origin of Species
HEGEL: Phenomenology of Mind, “Logic” (from the Encyclopedia)
LOBACHEVSKY: Theory of Parallels
TOCQUEVILLE: Democracy in America
LINCOLN: Selected Speeches
KIERKEGAARD: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling
WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde
MARX: Complete Works
MELVILLE: Benito Cereno
NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil
FREUD: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
HEIDEGGER: Basic Writings
EINSTEIN: Selected papers
FLAUBERT: Un Coeur Simple