The Great Books Reference Selections These are works that should be incorporated as Philosophy: references and resources in some fashion. At the • Pre-Socratic Philosophers very least, the students should become familiar with • Plato - Dialogues (Meno, Apology, Crito, the contributions of the authors and the importance Republic) of these works. • Cicero - On Duties • St. Augustine - On the Teacher Science: • St. Thomas Aquinas - On the Teacher • J Henri Fabre - Souvenirs Entomologiques • Dante - Inferno • Galen - On the Natural Faculties • St. John Paul II - Veritatis Splendor • Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals Latin: • Mendel - Plant Hybridization • The Vulgate • Archimedes - On Floating Bodies • Horace, Cicero selections • Lavoisier - Elements of Chemistry • St Thomas Aquinas - selections from • Pascal - Treatise on the Weight of the Mass Summa Theologiae of Air • Text of the Mass • Galileo - Two New Sciences • Newton - Optics Theology: • Huygens - Treatise on Light • The Holy Bible • Faraday - Experimental Researches in • St Augustine - On Christian Doctrine, Electricity Confessions • Darwin - Origin of the Species • St Athanasius - On the Incarnation • St Augustine - Literal Interpretation of • St John Damascene - Exposition of the Genesis Orthodox Faith • St Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologiae Math: • St John Paul II - Veritatis Splendor • Euclid - Elements • Pius XII - Humani Generis • Copernicus - Revolutions of the Heavenly • Leo XIII - Rerum Novarum, Aeterni Patris Spheres • Sheed - Theology and Sanity, Theology for Beginners Literature: • Sophocles - Oedipus Tyrranus, Antigone • Aristotle - Poetics, Rhetoric • Homer - Iliad, Odyssey • Virgil - Aeneid • Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth • Milton - Paradise Lost • Swift - Gulliver’s Travels • O’Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find; The Enduring Chill .