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Hello, anons. I've been inspired by picrel to deconstruct this undergrad degree into a publicly available body of books after finding good copies through Library Genesis and Anna's Archive. If anyone is interested, let me know -- especially if you can think of any additions on a graduate level beyond this.

So far, I have pulled the titles and authors from the picture, and sorted them by name. I will post the books in a combined and organized archived file if anyone is interested after I'm done downloading and checking for the best copies available.

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Plato
 • Meno
 • Protagoras
 • Gorgias
 • Apology
 • Crito
 • Phaedo
 • Ion
 • Symposium
 • Republic
 • Timaeus
 • Phaedrus
  
Porphyry
  • On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
  
Aristotle
  • Categories
 • On Interpretation
 • Prior Analytics
 • Posterior Analytics
 • Topics
 • Parts of Animals
 • Physics
 • De Anima
 • On Generation and Corruption
 • Poetics
 • Rhetoric
 • Nicomachean Ethics
 • Politics
 • Metaphysics
 • On Being and Essence
 • On Conoids and Spheroids
  
St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics
 • On the Principles of Nature
 • On the Combination of the Elements
 • Selections
 • On the Teacher
 • Summa Theologiae: On Sacred Doctrine, On God, On Law
 • Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the Sacraments, On the Passion of Christ
 • Summa Contra Gentiles, In metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria, Questiones disputationae de potentia
 • The Division and Methods of the Sciences
 • On Kingship
  
Aeschylus
  • Agamemnon
 • Libation Bearers
 • Eumenides
  
Sophocles
  • Oedipus Tyrannus
 • Oedipus at Colonus
 • Antigone
  
Euripides
  • Hippolytus
  
Thucydides
  • History of the Peloponnesian War
  
Aristophanes
  • The Birds
 • The Clouds
  
Homer
  • Iliad
 • Odyssey
  
Herodotus
  • Histories
  
Plutarch
  • Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Alexander)
 • Lives (Marcellus, Caius Marius, Sylla, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius  Gracchus, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Comparison of Dion  and Brutus)
  
Cicero
  • On Duties
  
Tacitus
  • Annals
  
St. Augustine
  • On Christian Doctrine
 • On the Spirit and the Letter
 • On Nature and Grace
 • On the Predestination of the Saints
 • On the Gift of Perseverance
 • City of God
 • Confessions
 • Literal Interpretation of Genesis
  
St. Athanasius
  • On the Incarnation
  
Gaunilo
  • On Behalf of the Fool
  
St. Anselm
  • Proslogion
 • Reply to Gaunilo
  
St. John Damascene
  • An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
  
Lavoisier
  • Elements of Chemistry
  
Avogadro
  • Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules
  
Dalton
  • Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere
  
Gay-Lussac
  • Combination of Gaseous Substances
  
Pascal
  • On the Equilibrium of Liquids
 • Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air
 • Pensées
  
Archimedes
  • On Floating Bodies
 • On Conoids and Spheroids
 • Quadrature of the Parabola
  
Mendel
  • Plant Hybridization
 • Experiments in Plant Hybridization
  
Descartes
  • Principles of Philosophy
 • Geometry
 • Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Meditations
  
Galileo
  • Two New Sciences
  
Newton
  • Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
 • Optics and Principia
  
Viete
  • Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art
  
Huygens
  • Treatise on Light
  
Young
  • “On Light and Color”
  
Gilbert
  • De Magnete
  
Faraday
  • Experimental Researches in Electricity
  
Maxwell
  • Various papers and essays
  
Darwin
  • On the Origin of the Species
  
Freud
  • Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
  
Jung
  • Analytical Psychology
  
Kant
  • Critique of Pure Reason
 • Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
  
Hegel
  • Philosophy of History
 • Phenomenology of the Spirit
  
Rousseau
  • Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
  
Nietzsche
  • On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History
 • Beyond Good & Evil
  
Tolstoy
  • War and Peace
  
Smith
  • Wealth of Nations
  
Twain
  • Huckleberry Finn
  
Marx
  • Capital
 • Communist Manifesto
 • Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
 • German Ideology
  
Engels
  • Quantity and Quality
 • Negation of the Negation
  
Ibsen
  • A Doll's House
  
Dostoyevski
  • Brothers Karamazov
  
Kierkegaard
  • Fear and Trembling
 • Philosophical Fragments
  
Cather
  • My Ántonia
  
Flaubert
  • Three Tales
  
O’Connor
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
  
Goethe
  • Faust
  
Eliot
  • The Waste Land, Journey of the Magi
  
Joyce
  • Dubliners (four selections: Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case, The Dead)
  
Austen
  • Emma
  
Machiavelli
  • The Prince
 • Discourses
  
Cervantes
  • Don Quixote
  
Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar
 • King Richard the Second
 • King Henry the Fourth: Part One
 • Hamlet
 • King Lear
 • Othello
 • Macbeth
 • Twelfth Night
 • The Tempest
 • Sonnets
  
Boethius
  • Consolation of Philosophy
 • On Music
  
Dante
  • Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise
  
Chaucer
  • Canterbury Tales
  
The Pearl Poet
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  
Spenser
  • Faerie Queen
  
Racine
  • Phaedre
  
Locke
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding
 • Second Treatise of Government
  
Berkeley
  • Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge
  
Hume
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  
Swift
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  
Gibbon
  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  
Leibniz
  • Discourse on Metaphysics
  
St. John Henry Newman
  • An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
  
Pope St. Pius X
  • Pascendi Dominici Gregis
  
Leo XIII
  • Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum
  
Pius XII
  • Humani Generis
  
Pius XI
  • Quadragesimo Anno
  
Pope St. John Paul II
  • Veritatis Splendor
  
Various Authors
  • Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch, et
 
 • Meno
 • Protagoras
 • Gorgias
 • Apology
 • Crito
 • Phaedo
 • Ion
 • Symposium
 • Republic
 • Timaeus
 • Phaedrus
  
Porphyry
  • On the Predicaments (Isagoge)
  
Aristotle
  • Categories
 • On Interpretation
 • Prior Analytics
 • Posterior Analytics
 • Topics
 • Parts of Animals
 • Physics
 • De Anima
 • On Generation and Corruption
 • Poetics
 • Rhetoric
 • Nicomachean Ethics
 • Politics
 • Metaphysics
 • On Being and Essence
 • On Conoids and Spheroids
  
St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Proemium to the Commentary on the Posterior Analytics
 • On the Principles of Nature
 • On the Combination of the Elements
 • Selections
 • On the Teacher
 • Summa Theologiae: On Sacred Doctrine, On God, On Law
 • Summa Theologiae: On the Trinity, On the Sacraments, On the Passion of Christ
 • Summa Contra Gentiles, In metaphysicam Aristotelis commentaria, Questiones disputationae de potentia
 • The Division and Methods of the Sciences
 • On Kingship
  
Aeschylus
  • Agamemnon
 • Libation Bearers
 • Eumenides
  
Sophocles
  • Oedipus Tyrannus
 • Oedipus at Colonus
 • Antigone
  
Euripides
  • Hippolytus
  
Thucydides
  • History of the Peloponnesian War
  
Aristophanes
  • The Birds
 • The Clouds
  
Homer
  • Iliad
 • Odyssey
  
Herodotus
  • Histories
  
Plutarch
  • Lives (Lycurgus, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, Alexander)
 • Lives (Marcellus, Caius Marius, Sylla, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius  Gracchus, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Brutus, Comparison of Dion  and Brutus)
  
Cicero
  • On Duties
  
Tacitus
  • Annals
  
St. Augustine
  • On Christian Doctrine
 • On the Spirit and the Letter
 • On Nature and Grace
 • On the Predestination of the Saints
 • On the Gift of Perseverance
 • City of God
 • Confessions
 • Literal Interpretation of Genesis
  
St. Athanasius
  • On the Incarnation
  
Gaunilo
  • On Behalf of the Fool
  
St. Anselm
  • Proslogion
 • Reply to Gaunilo
  
St. John Damascene
  • An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
  
Lavoisier
  • Elements of Chemistry
  
Avogadro
  • Masses and Proportions of Elementary Molecules
  
Dalton
  • Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere
  
Gay-Lussac
  • Combination of Gaseous Substances
  
Pascal
  • On the Equilibrium of Liquids
 • Treatise on the Weight of the Mass of Air
 • Pensées
  
Archimedes
  • On Floating Bodies
 • On Conoids and Spheroids
 • Quadrature of the Parabola
  
Mendel
  • Plant Hybridization
 • Experiments in Plant Hybridization
  
Descartes
  • Principles of Philosophy
 • Geometry
 • Discourse on Method, Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Meditations
  
Galileo
  • Two New Sciences
  
Newton
  • Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
 • Optics and Principia
  
Viete
  • Standard Enumeration of Geometric Results, Introduction to the Analytic Art
  
Huygens
  • Treatise on Light
  
Young
  • “On Light and Color”
  
Gilbert
  • De Magnete
  
Faraday
  • Experimental Researches in Electricity
  
Maxwell
  • Various papers and essays
  
Darwin
  • On the Origin of the Species
  
Freud
  • Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
  
Jung
  • Analytical Psychology
  
Kant
  • Critique of Pure Reason
 • Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
  
Hegel
  • Philosophy of History
 • Phenomenology of the Spirit
  
Rousseau
  • Social Contract, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
  
Nietzsche
  • On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History
 • Beyond Good & Evil
  
Tolstoy
  • War and Peace
  
Smith
  • Wealth of Nations
  
Twain
  • Huckleberry Finn
  
Marx
  • Capital
 • Communist Manifesto
 • Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts
 • German Ideology
  
Engels
  • Quantity and Quality
 • Negation of the Negation
  
Ibsen
  • A Doll's House
  
Dostoyevski
  • Brothers Karamazov
  
Kierkegaard
  • Fear and Trembling
 • Philosophical Fragments
  
Cather
  • My Ántonia
  
Flaubert
  • Three Tales
  
O’Connor
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Enduring Chill
  
Goethe
  • Faust
  
Eliot
  • The Waste Land, Journey of the Magi
  
Joyce
  • Dubliners (four selections: Eveline, A Little Cloud, A Painful Case, The Dead)
  
Austen
  • Emma
  
Machiavelli
  • The Prince
 • Discourses
  
Cervantes
  • Don Quixote
  
Shakespeare
  • Julius Caesar
 • King Richard the Second
 • King Henry the Fourth: Part One
 • Hamlet
 • King Lear
 • Othello
 • Macbeth
 • Twelfth Night
 • The Tempest
 • Sonnets
  
Boethius
  • Consolation of Philosophy
 • On Music
  
Dante
  • Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise
  
Chaucer
  • Canterbury Tales
  
The Pearl Poet
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  
Spenser
  • Faerie Queen
  
Racine
  • Phaedre
  
Locke
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding
 • Second Treatise of Government
  
Berkeley
  • Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge
  
Hume
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
  
Swift
  • Gulliver’s Travels
  
Gibbon
  • Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  
Leibniz
  • Discourse on Metaphysics
  
St. John Henry Newman
  • An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
  
Pope St. Pius X
  • Pascendi Dominici Gregis
  
Leo XIII
  • Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum
  
Pius XII
  • Humani Generis
  
Pius XI
  • Quadragesimo Anno
  
Pope St. John Paul II
  • Veritatis Splendor
  
Various Authors
  • Scientific papers of Driesch, Gould and Marler, Tinbergen, Goethe, Virchow, von Frisch
Replies: >>153
I'm interested for posterity's sake. But admittedly am not a classicfag. I got shafted so hard during my undergrad, they would only read snippets of books and spend most of their time on classroom debates between midwits
I know a few people who went to Thomas Aquinas, high reviews from all of them. I have an MA from a similar institution and can provide some input based on that.

First, for anyone planning on working through this or any other list by yourself, don't immediately discount secondary literature. A lot of editions include an introductory essay, and there's an abundance of material on the reception of any text worth reading to be found on the internet. There are people who have devoted their entire careers to understanding one book, and it's worth it to be open to their insights, even if you ultimately reject them. At the very least they can often help you get a sense of the context of the work.

Regarding that specific curriculum, while excellent, I would say it's way too long and technical for most to reasonably work through. It also neglects a huge chunk of what I would argue is necessary material from the late renaissance and reformation period, but that's unfortunately pretty standard in the anglosphere. All of German philosophy is downstream from the reformation, not least exemplified by the fact that most of those thinkers were themselves or at least raised Lutheran, but I digress. The list is not bad at all and anyone who manages to work through it will have achieved something significant, but I would cut it down substantially and add the following in order to make it a feasible undertaking.


- illiad
- Odyssey
- Agamemnon 
- Alcibiades Major (the traditional starting point for Plato)
- Symposium and/or Apology
- Republic
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Aeneid
- Confessions St Agustin
- On the Incarnation
- Consolation of Philosophy
- Proslogion 
- Theologia Germanica
- Martin Luther's treatise on Christian Freedom and/or his Galatians commentary
- Dante's Divine Comedy
 
I'm tempted to cut the list off here because the enlightenment onwards is a choose-your-own adventure depending on where you are and what tradition you're in. For example if you're in the USA you should be familiar with Locke and Adam Smith, but almost no one is universal in the way of those past works. Simply not enough time has past. I'll give a few that I think are particularly strong candidates, but if you make it through that list so far then you'll have an understanding of where to go based on what's relevant to you.

- Shakespeare's Hamlet
- Descartes Meditations
- Faust parts 1&2, plus Goethe's scientific writings 
- Bentham and Mill on Utilitarianism 
- Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit
- Schumacher's A Guide for the Perplexed
Replies: >>66
>>64
Thank you for the effort-posting. I'll continue to synthesis the project with what you've said in mind.

I have no background with this institution or related ones (my own is from STEM research universities, the rest was all self-taught), but I was deeply struck by the comprehensiveness of this curriculum. I felt urge to create this project, to shore up my deficiencies, along with offering other anons the ability to teach themselves with a clear guideline to the backbone of what made our past civilizations great even if it doesn't have an immediate utility (hence a classical education).
Are there any free online resources somewhat in the style of Khan Academy for those wanting a classical education?
Thanks
>>56 (OP) 
I made a mockup of a classical education "system" (really just progress tracking) here: https://rentry.co/ourchanreadinglist

I admittedly haven't read really anything on this list, so I don't know whether or not it's good. But if nobody sees any major issues I can go ahead and start adding hyperlinks to read the material, maybe do estimated time reading, etc.
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