- Rousseau: The Social Contract- this was disturbing
- Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch 15-16- I liked this and will read more
- The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, several of The Federalist Papers
- Smith: The Wealth of Nations book 1 ch 9
- Marx/Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party
- Homer: The Iliad- loved this
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides- I loved these.
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone: I liked these so much I finished the trilogy.
- Herodotus: The History book 1-3- these were fun
- Plato: Meno
- Aristotle: Poetics- very interesting
- Aristotle: Ethics book 2,3,&6
- Nicomachus: Introduction to Arithmetic
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. ~ Francis Bacon ~
13 November 2013
Starting Again
I have taken a break from reading and an even longer break from writing about it. Here is a list of what I have read since Locke:
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