Main currents of Western thought; readings in Western European intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the present.

pt. 1. Age of religion: --
The medieval Christian worldview: --
On the contemplative life / St. Thomas Aquinas --
Statutes of New College, Oxford --
Enchiridion / St. Augustine --
On the sacraments and the priesthood / St. Thomas Aquinas --
The symbolism of churches and church ornaments / William Durandus --
Confessions / St. Augustine --
Summa contra gentiles and Summa theologica / St. Thomas Aquinas --
Opus majus / Roger Bacon --
The mystical theology / Dionysius the Psuedo-Areopagite --
The banquet / Dante Alighieri --
The statesman's book / John of Salisbury. On the governance of rulers / St. Thomas Aquinas --
On heresy / St. Thomas Aquinas --
Of monarchy / Dante Alighieri --
The book of the order of chivalry / Ramon Lull --
On the ethics of trading / St. Thomas Aquinas --
The two cities / Bishop Otto of Freising --
The Renaissance: --
My secret / Francesco Petrarch --
Lives of illustrious men of the fifteenth century / Vespasiano da Bisticci. The lives of the painters / Giorgo Vasari --
Letters to classical authors / Francesco Petrarch --
Oration on the dignity of man / Pico della Mirandola --
On the education of children / Desiderius Erasmus --
The complete gentleman / Henry Peacham --
Treatise on painting / Leo Battista Alberti --
Concerning the study of literature / Lionardo Bruni --
On painting as an art / Leonardo da Vinci --
The discourses on Titus Livy / Niccolo Machiavelli --
On the forgery of the donation of Constantine / Lorenzo Valla --
Desiderius Erasmus. The confessional age: --
The religious experience of Thomas Bilney --
Common topics / Philip Melanchthon --
On the Babylonish captivity of the church / Martin Luther --
The papacy at Rome / Martin Luther --
Institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin --
A directory of church government / Walter Travers --
The holy community of Northampton, England --
Menno Simmons --
An apology for the Quakers / Robert Barclay --
Ignatius Loyola and Jesuit education --
The laws of ecclesiastical polity / Richard Hooker --
A defence of liberty against tyrants --
Life of Calvin / Theodore Beza --
Religion's peace / Leonard Busher. The republic / Jean Bodin --
Letter on usury / John Calvin --
A Christian directory / Richard Baxter --
A discourse upon usury / Thomas Wilson --
The history of the world / Sir Walter Raleigh --
pt. 2. Age of science: --
The scientific revolution: --
History of the Royal Society / Bishop Sprat --
Eulogies of scientists / Fontenelle --
Of cannibals / Michel de Montaigne --
Plus ultra, or the progress and advancement of knowledge in the days of Aristotle / Joseph Glanvill --
Collection of voyages / Melchisedech Thevenot. Commentarioulus / Nicholas Copernicus --
Preface to Sir Issac Newton's Principia / Roger Cotes --
On the motion of heart and blood / William Harvey --
Francis Bacon --
Discourse on method / Rene Descartes --
Journal / John Locke --
On style and expression / Bishop Sprat --
Tractate on education / Sir William Petty --
Plurality of words / Fontenelle --
On the corpuscular philosophy / Robert Boyle --
The principles of philosophy / Rene Descartes --
Ethics demonstrated in the geometrical manner / Benedict de Spinoza --
Optics / Sir Isaac Newton --
On theology as queen of the sciences / Galileo Galilei. An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke --
Politics drawn from the Holy Scriptures / Bishop Bossuet --
Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes --
John Milton --
A letter concerning toleration / John Locke --
Digression on the ancients and moderns / Fontenelle --
The enlightenment: --
Letters on the English / Voltaire --
The encyclopedia --
Essay on national education / La Chalotais --
Discourses on painting / Sir Joshua Reynolds --
Historical and critical dictionary / Pierre Bayle --
Philosophical dictionary / Voltaire. On miracles / David Hume --
The system of nature / Baron d'Holbach --
On evil and free will / Voltaire --
On man / Claude-Adrien Helvetius --
Philosophical dictionary / Voltaire --
The spirit of the laws / Baron de Montesquieu --
The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau --
The progress of the human mind / Marquis de Condorcet --
On the origin of a science / Dupont de Nemours --
The wealth of nations / Adam Smith --
Joseph Priestly --
The progress of the human mind / Marquis de Condorcet --
Century of Becoming: --
Germany / Madame de Stael --
On reason and understanding / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
The genius of Christianity / Vicomte de Chateaubriand --
Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynold's "Discourses" / William Blake. Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke --
Two schools of legal thought / Friedrich Karl von Savigny --
Lectures on the philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --
On the principle of utilty / Jeremy Bentham --
Autobigraphy / John Stuart Mill --
Self-help / Samuel Smiles --
Social statics / Herbert Spencer --
The new moral order / Robert Owen --
Culture and anarchy / Matthew Arnold --
The positive philosophy / Auguste Comte. The history of philosophy from Thales to Comte / G.H. Lewes --
An introduction to the study of experimental medicine / Claude Bernard --
The experimental novel / Emile Zola --
The life of Jesus / David Friedrich Strauss --
The essence of Christianity / Ludwig Feuerbach --
On man and history / Karl Marx --
Herr Eugen Duhring's revolution in science / Friedrich Engels --
On the duties of man / Joseph Mazzini --
Principles of geology / Sir Charles Lyell --
Charles Darwin --
Darwinism / Alfred Russel Wallace --
On agnosticism and evolutionary ethics / Thomas Henry Huxley --
The riddle of the universe / Ernst Haeckel --
The science of ethics / Sir Leslie Stephen --
Fabian essays in socialism / Sidney Webb --
National life from the standpoint of science / Karl Pearson. Politics / Heinrich von Treitschke --
Foundations of the nineteenth century / Houston Stewart Chamberlain --
On the death of God / Friedrich Nietzsche --
On historical relativism / Wilhelm Dilthey --
Second thoughts about science / Ernest Renan --
The reaction against positivism / Albert Fouillee --
The crowd man / Gustav Le Bon --
Human nature in politics / Graham Wallas --
Myth in history / Georges Sorel. pt. 3. Age of anxiety: --
Age of anxiety / Paul Tillich --
Our age of unreason / Franz Alexander --
Decadence / C.E.M. Joad --
An interregnum / Ortega y Gasset --
On the secular drift / Basil Willey --
The future of an illusion / Sigmund Freud --
A spiritual odyssey / C.E.M. Joad --
The word of God and the word of man / Karl Barth --
The angelic doctor / Jacques Maritain --
Existentialism / Jean-Paul Sartre --
Way to wisdom / Karl Jaspers --
On the crisis in science and logical positivism / Philipp Frank --
A layman's view / Arthur Koestler --
The meaning and limits of exact science / Max Planck --
Science and the modern world / Alfred North Whitehead --
On free will / Sir James Jeans --
Creative evolution / Henri Bergson --
The philosophical basis of biology / J.S. Haldane. The crisis in man's knowledge of himself / Ernst Cassirer --
Civilization and its discontents / Sigmund Freud --
On the collective unconscious / Carl Jung --
Man for himself / Erich Fromm --
What is to be done? / Vladimir Lenin --
State and revolution / Vladimir Lenin --
On socialism and religion / Vladimir Lenin. On ethics / Vladimir Lenin --
Dialectical and historical materialism / Joseph Stalin --
On the political doctrine of Fascism / Alfredo Rocco --
The doctrine of fascism / Benito Mussolini --
On myth / Benito Mussolini --
Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler --
The myth of the twentieth century / Alfred Rosenberg --
The UNESCO questionnaire on ideological conflicts concerning democracy --
On the congress of Europe / Winston Churchill --
The betrayal of the intellectuals / Julien Benda --
Conversion to communism / Arthur Koestler --
Materialism and revolution / Jean-Paul Sartre --
On rebellion / Albert Camus --
Reflections on time and history / Nicolas Berdyaev --
The idea of progress / W.R. Inge. The decline of the West / Oswald Spengler --
The twenty-fifth hour / C. Virgil Gheorghiu --
A study of history / Arnold Toynbee --
The phenomenon of man / Teilhard de Chardin.