Aquinas
|
| Selections
from the Summa Theologica |
|
A
few juicy tid-bits to get you excited about the Angelic Doctor |
| Summa
Theologica I, q. 1, art. 1-10 |
|
On
the nature of sacred doctrine |
| Summa
Theologica I, q. 2, art. 1-3 |
|
On
the existence of God |
| Summa
Theologica I, q. 16, art. 1-8 |
|
On
Truth |
| Summa
Theologica I, q. 17, art. 1-4 |
|
On
Falsity |
| Summa
Theologica I, q. 117, art. 1 |
|
Whether
one man can teach another |
Aristotle
|
| Nicomachean
Ethics (selections) |
|
Highlights
from Aristotle's ethics for your reading pleasure |
| Politics
7 and 8 |
|
Education
in the polis |
| Rhetoric
(edited) |
|
The
classic text on the art of persuasion. |
Augustine
|
| City
of God 19.26 |
|
Against
the Academics |
| Answer
to the Skeptics 3.23-26 |
|
Another
one against the Academics |
| City
of God 19.4 |
|
Critique
of Stoic Ethics |
| City
of God (selection) |
|
Augustine
on the Two Cities |
| Confessions
1 |
|
Augustine's
infancy and childhood |
| Confessions
4.7-19 |
|
The
death of Augustine's friend. |
| Confessions
7.10,17 |
|
Augustine's
first mystical experience |
| Confessions
8.19-30 |
|
Augustine's
conversion |
| Nature
of the Good (selections) |
|
On
the goodness of all created things |
| Against
Fortunatus 20-22 |
|
Critique
of Manicheanism |
| Man's
Perfection in Righteousness 1-15 |
|
Critique
of Pelagianism |
| Christian
Doctrine I (selections) |
|
On
Use and Enjoyment |
| Christian
Doctrine II |
|
On
Signs |
| Christian
Doctrine IV.1-5 |
|
The
Case for Christian Rhetoric |
| Christian
Doctrine IV. 11-30 |
|
Style
in Christian Rhetoric |
| Catechising
the Uninstructed |
|
Christian
Catechetical Instruction |
Francis
Bacon
|
| Selected
Essays |
|
The
best essays of one of the world's greatest essayists |
Cicero
|
| On
Friendship |
|
One
of the most lucid works on the subject ever written |
| On
Old Age |
|
Makes
you almost look forward to getting old |
| De
Finibus 1 |
|
On
Epicurean Ethics |
| De
Finibus 2 |
|
Refutation
of Epicurean Ethics |
| De
Finibus 3 |
|
On
Stoic Ethics |
| De
Finibus 4 |
|
Refutation
of Stoic Ethics |
John
Dewey
|
| My
Pedagogic Creed |
|
Dewey's
educational platform |
| Experience
and Education (selections) |
|
Dewey's
attempt to bridge the divide between Traditionalism and
Progressivism in education |
Diogenes
Laertius
|
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.1-2 |
|
Life
of Epicurus |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.17-23 |
|
Teachings
of Epicurus |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.24 |
|
Epicurus,
Letter to Herodotus |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.25 |
|
Epicurus,
Letter to Pythocles |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.26 |
|
Epicurus'
Moral Teachings |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.27 |
|
Epicurus,
Letter to Menoeceus |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.28-30 |
|
Epicurus
and the Cyrenaics on Pleasure |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 10.31 |
|
Maxims
of Epicurus |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 7.84-129 |
|
Stoic
Ethics |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 6.20-81 |
|
Life
of Diogenes of Sinope |
| Lives
of the Philosophers 6.96-98 |
|
Life
of Hipparchia |
Immanuel
Kant
|
| What
is Enlightenment? |
|
Kant's
manifesto on the Enlightenment approach to philosophy |
| On
Education (selections) |
|
Most
of the text of Kant's work on educational theory |
Plato
|
| The
Apology (complete) |
|
Socrates'
magnificent defense of the philosophical life |
| The
Apology (edited version) |
|
An
easy-to-digest version of Socrates' defense speech |
| The
Crito (complete) |
|
Why
Socrates won't escape from prison |
| The
Euthyphro (complete) |
|
What
the heck is this thing called "piety" anyway? |
| Gorgias
447a-461c |
|
Sophist
and Socratic approaches to rhetoric |
| The
Phaedo (selections) |
|
Why
the true philosopher should welcome death...and why you should as
well |
| The
Republic (selections) |
|
A
Sophia edited version of Plato's masterpiece on Justice (with
commentary) |
| Republic
II and IV |
|
Plato's
philosophy of education (with commentary) |
| The
Symposium 201d-212c |
|
Platonic
reflections on love, ecstasy and mystical ascent |
| The
Theaetetus (complete) |
|
Plato's
critique of relativism |
| The
Euthydemus (complete) |
|
Socrates
on moral education |
Plotinus
|
| Enneads
(selections) |
|
One
of the great mystical texts of the Western world...a real
mind-blower! |
Quintilian
|
| Institutes
of Oratory (selections) |
|
The
Romans may not have been stupendous philosophers but they knew their
rhetoric, and this is one of the most influential works on the
subject |
Rousseau
|
| Emile
(selections) |
|
Rousseau's
Romantic version of child-raising. |
Seneca
|
| Moral
Epistles (selections) |
|
One
of the clearest expositions on Stoic ethics available |
| Moral
Epistles (arranged by topic) |
|
Shorter
version of the above |
| On
Anger (selections) |
|
Seneca's
Stoic psychology of the passions |
| On
Providence |
|
Or...why
God will take care of everything if you just chill out |
| On
the Tranquility of Mind |
|
Learn
to control your passions before they start to control you |
Sextus
Empiricus
|
| Outlines
of Pyrrhoism (Book 1) |
|
A
philosophy of Skepticism |
Tertullian
|
| On
Flight During Persecution |
|
Or...why
it doesn't pay to run away when persecutors come-a-knocking |
| Address
to the Martyrs |
|
Tertullian's
attempt to pump up Christians awaiting martyrdom |
| Passion
of Perpetua and Felicity |
|
An
account of the death of two early Christian martyrs |
Whitehead
|
| Aims
of Education |
|
Whitehead's
educational philosophy |
Classical
Texts
|
| From
the Greek Anthology |
|
Some
of the most delightful poems from the classical Greek speaking world |
| The
Human Condition |
|
A
delightful mélange of of ancient texts dealing with the
inevitability of suffering and death |
| Lucian,
Zeus Cross-Examined |
|
Lucian's
satirical dialogue on fatalism |
| Pliny,
Letter to Trajan |
|
Some
suggestions on how to deal with those pesty Christians |
| Boethius,
Consolation V |
|
Boethius
tackles the difficult problem of divine foreknowledge |
| Aristophanes,
The Clouds |
|
An
alternative interpretation of the Socratic legacy |
| Homer,
Iliad (selections) |
|
An
abbreviated version that focuses on Achilles |
Education
Texts
|
| Plutarch,
Moralia (selection) |
|
Some
ideas on education from late antiquity |
| Erasmus,
Selected Colloquia |
|
A
Renaissance approach to education |
| Defoe,
The Education of Women |
|
A
modern approach to the education of women from the author of Moll
Flanders |
| Shaw,
Parents and Children |
|
Reflections
on child-raising from a master satirist |
| Hutchins,
Tradition of the West |
|
A
"great books" approach to education |
| B.T.
Washington, Up From Slavery (selections) |
|
Washington's
approach to the education of minorities. |
Miscellaneous
Texts
|
| Veblen,
Conspicuous Consumption |
|
A
stirring critique of American consumerism |
| T.
Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (selections) |
|
Some
advice from the bully pulpit |
| B.
Franklin, The Autobiography (selections) |
|
Franklin's
program for self-improvement |
|
French
Intellectual Thought |
|
Collection of Readings for
Francophiles |
Audio
Files
|
| Great
Speeches of the 20th Century |
|
for
your listening pleasure and edification |
