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Herein one may find a small collection of writings, found at the time to be of interest to this author, and little more. Different subject areas can be stumbled upon via the navigation bar to the right.

General & Unorganized

A Young Girl's Diary (Preface by S. Freud)

The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

 

Articles of Confederation

The Magna Carta

Winston Churchill - Sinews of Peace

Andrew Carnegie - Wealth

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party

 

Ancient History

The Six Keys of Eudoxus

The Enuma Elish (Babylonian Creation Myth)

Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar

 

Theory of Knowledge

Berkeley - Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Descartes - Discourse on Method

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

Hegel - Philosophy of History

Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Hume - Of the Origin of Ideas

J.S. Mill - On Liberty

Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Locke - An Essay Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government

Machiavelli - The Prince

Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Plato - Allegory of the Cave

Rousseau - The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right

Spinoza - On the Improvement of Understanding

Thoreau - Civil Disobedience

 

Philosophy - Science and Human Understanding

Einstein - Relativity

Hacking - Representing and Intervening

Kuhn - The Copernican Revolution

Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Leibniz - Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence

 

Schlick, Moritz - Positivism & Realism

Hempel, Carl - Philosophy of Natural Science

Carnap, Rudolf - Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Popper, Karl - Conjectures & Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Lakatos, Imre - Falsification & the Methodology of Scientic Research Programmes

Lakatos, Imre - Criticism & the Growth of Knowledge: Proceedings of the International Colloquim

van Frasen, Bas - The Scientific Image

Fine, Arthur - And Not Anti-Realism Either

Hoffmann, Banesh - Relativity & Its Roots

Einstein, Michelson, & the "Critical" Experiment

Roman & Greek

Aesop - Aesop's Fables

Aristotle - Poetics

Aristotle - Rhetoric

Augustus - The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Julius Caesar - Commentaries

Marcus Aurelius - The Meditations

 

Classics - Introduction to Greek Civilization

Aeschylus - Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies)

Aristophanes - Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds

Euripides - I: Four Tragedies (Alcestis, Medea, The Heracleidae, Hippolytus)

Euripides - V: Three Tragedies (Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae)

Herodotus - Histories

Homer - The Iliad

Plato - Defense of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito

Plato - Symposium

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander)

Sophocles - Theban Plays (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus)

Sophocles - II: Four Tragedies (Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes)

Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War

 

Hesiod - The Theogony

Hesiod - The Works and Days

Solon - Poems

Theognis - Poems

Bacchylides - Epinician Odes

Stesichorus - Palinode for Helen

Sappho - Poems

Aeschylus - The Persians

Aristophanes - Frogs

Xenophon - Hellenica

Hippocrates - The Oath, The Canon, The Sacred Disease, Epidemics, The Nature of Man, Airs Waters Places,

The Seed and Nature of the Child, Disease of Young Women, On Regimen

Aristotle - On Generation of Animals

Plato - Protagoras

Aristotle - Politics

Aristotle - Ethics

Lysias - Funeral Oration

 

Classics - Introduction to Roman Civilization

Petronius - The Satyricon

Plutarch - Makers of Rome: Nine Lives

Tacitus - Agricola

Tacitus - Germany

Virgil - The Aeneid

 

Catullus - Poems

Julius Caesar - The Conquest of Gaul

Cicero - On Duties

Cicero - Selected Political Speeches

Dio Cassius - Roman History

Horace - Complete Odes and Epodes

Josephus - The Jewish War

Livy - The History of Rome

Lucretius - On the Nature of the Universe

ovid - Fasti

Platus - The Haunted House

Pliny the Elder - Natural History

Seneca - Letters from a Stoic

Seneca - Epistulae Morales

Suetonius - The Twelve Caesars: Life of Augustus

Tacitus - Annals of Imperial Rome

Tacitus - The Histories

Virgil - The Pastoral Poems

 

Coup D'essai

Kevin Daniel Werbach - Literary Models for Alternative Social Development in Russia

Susan O. Shapiro - Herodotus and Solon [PDF]

 

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