This is the exhaustive canon of Western culture, science, and philosophy. And these 99 reasons just scratch the surface of this library, which contains 517 works by 130 authors in its 60 volumes.
- The City of God
- The Aeneid
- The Divine Comedy
- The Federalist Papers
- Plato’s Dialogues
- The Summa Theologica
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Prince
- The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
- Pascal’s Pensées
- Gulliver’s Travels
- The Critique of Pure Reason
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- The Critique of Judgment
- Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil
- The Origin of Species
- The Communist Manifesto
- War and Peace
- Heidegger’s What Is Metaphysics?
- The Word of God and the Word of Man
- Einstein’s Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
- Heart of Darkness
- Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
- The Wealth of Nations
- The Articles of Confederation
- The Philosophy of Right
- The Philosophy of History
- Democracy in America
- Moby Dick
- William James’ The Principles of Psychology
- Freud’s The Ego and the Id
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy
- Bergson’s An Introduction to Metaphysics
- The Great Gatsby
- The Waste Land
- Animal Farm
- Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Selections from Weber’s Essays in Sociology
- Waddington’s The Nature of Life
- Selections from Neils Bohr’s Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature
- Schrödinger’s What Is Life?
- Tawney’s The Acquisitive Society
- The Brothers Karamazov
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Descent of Man
- Augustine’s Confessions
- Plotinus’ The Six Enneads
- Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
- Epictetus’ Discourses
- Lucretius’ The Way Things Are
- Herodotus’ The History
- Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War
- The Illiad
- The Odyssey
- Prometheus Bound
- Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
- The Leviathan
- Michel de Montaigne’s Essays
- Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets
- Concerning the Two New Sciences
- Spinoza’s Ethics
- Pascal’s Scientific Treatises
- Francis Bacon’s Advancement of Learning
- Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
- Huygen’s Treatise on Light
- N. Whitehead’s An Introduction to Mathematics
- David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Berkeley’s The Principles of Human Knowledge
- Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Candide
- Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws
- Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Galileo Galilei’s Empire (2 vols.)
- Euclid’s Elements
- Hippocratic Writings
- The Works of Archimedes
- Plutarch’s The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- Ptolemy’s The Almagest
- Kepler’s Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
- Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
- Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
- Erasmus’ Praise of Folly
- Paradise Lost
- Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
- Plato’s The Seventh Letter
- Aristotle’s Categories
- Physics
- On Dreams
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Rhetoric
- On Poetics
- Metaphysics
- On the Soul
- On Memory and Reminiscence
- Descartes’ Rules for the Direction of the Mind
- Pascal’s Provincial Letters
- Moliere’s Don Juan
- The Social Contract
- The Syntopicon
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The Syntopicon may just be the best reason to get this collection, worth $99.99 in and of itself in my opinion. What is the Syntopicon? The Syntopicon is a curated collection of 102 topics and themes that saturate all of the works in this library. These topics include God, love, education, evolution, necessity and contingency, memory and imagination, citizenship, language, and 94 others. See for yourself—check out the sample pages for the topic of “Infinity” (if you don’t want to read the introduction, skip to page 11 to see what this will do for your library and research):
Imagine those last five pages in your Logos digital library, with active links that open to those very pages. That’s the power of Logos working to bring the conversation of classical literature and thought to the top of your research.
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I have had the Great Books of the Western World for about 20 years and YES I am looking forward to them coming to Logos.
I ordered my set–when it was $99.00. Looking forward to digging in.
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