Great Books of the Western World series

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The Great Books of the Western World series is a curated collection of classic works of literature, philosophy, science, and political thought intended to represent the core intellectual tradition of Western civilization.

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book series ⓘ
aim to present the core intellectual tradition of Western civilization ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
editor Mortimer J. Adler ⓘ
linked to: Mortimer Adler

Robert Maynard Hutchins ⓘ
educationalPhilosophy Great Books education ⓘ
genre literature ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
political thought ⓘ
science ⓘ
hasEdition 1952 first edition ⓘ
1990 second edition ⓘ
hasPart Candide by Voltaire ⓘ
linked to: Candide

Capital by Karl Marx ⓘ
linked to: Das Kapital

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant ⓘ
Dialogues of Plato ⓘ
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ⓘ
linked to: Don Quixote

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes ⓘ
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes ⓘ
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ⓘ
linked to: Moby-Dick

Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton ⓘ
Psychoanalytic works of Sigmund Freud ⓘ
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein ⓘ
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
linked to: Summa Theologiae

Syntopicon ⓘ
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri ⓘ
The Federalist Papers ⓘ
The Holy Bible ⓘ
linked to: Bible

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin ⓘ
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith ⓘ
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ⓘ
linked to: War and Peace

Works of Aeschylus ⓘ
Works of Apollonius of Perga ⓘ
Works of Archimedes ⓘ
Works of Aristotle ⓘ
Works of Augustine of Hippo ⓘ
Works of Euclid ⓘ
linked to: Euclid's Elements

Works of Euripides ⓘ
linked to: Euripidean corpus

Works of Francis Bacon ⓘ
Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ⓘ
Works of Homer ⓘ
linked to: Homeric epics

Works of John Locke ⓘ
linked to: John Locke

Works of Lucretius ⓘ
linked to: De rerum natura

Works of Niccolò Machiavelli ⓘ
Works of Nicomachus of Gerasa ⓘ
Works of Plutarch ⓘ
Works of Sophocles ⓘ
Works of Tacitus ⓘ
Works of Virgil ⓘ
linked to: Virgil

Works of William Shakespeare ⓘ
inception 1952 ⓘ
language English ⓘ
notableEditor Mortimer J. Adler ⓘ
linked to: Mortimer Adler

Robert Maynard Hutchins ⓘ
publisher Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ⓘ

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