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' The Great Books Scheme'; The Chicago Canon of Western Civilization.
A list of authors proposed by Mortimer J. Adler, in 'Great Books, Past
and Present', an epilogue to G. van Doren (ed.), Reforming Education:
The Opening of the American Mind (New York, 1988), 318-50.

Homer                     
eschylus
Sophocles
Herodotus                 
Hippocrates 
Aristophanes 
Plato                     
Aristotle
Epicurus
Euclid
Archimedes
Apollonius 
Cicero
Lucretius
Virgil
Plutarch
Tacitus
Nicomachus
Epictetus
Ptolemy
M. Aurelius
Galen
St Augustine
St Thomas Aquinas
Dante Alighieri
Chaucer
Machiavelli
Erasmus
Copernicus
Thomas More
Luther
Rabelais
Calvin
Montaigne
W. Gilbert
Cervantes
Bacon
Shakespeare
Galileo
Kepler
W. Harvey
Hobbes
Descartes
Milton
Moliere
Pascal
Huygens
Spinoza
Locke
Racine
Newton
Leibniz
Defoe
Swift
Congreve
Bishop Berkeley
Montesquieu
VoltaIre
Fielding
Johnson
Hume
Rousseau
Sterne
Adam Smith
Kant
Gibbon
Boswell
Lavoisier
Goethe
Dalton
Hegel
Jane Austen
von Clausewitz
Stendhal
Schopenhauer
Faraday
C. Lyell
A. Comte
Balzac
de Tocqueville
J, S. Mill
Darwin
Dickens
C. Bernard
Kierkegaard
Marx
George Eliot
H. Melville
Dostoevsky
Flaubert
Ibsen
Tolstoy
J. W. R. Dedekind
M. Twain
W. James
Nietzsche
G. Cantor
Freud
D. Hilbert

1900-1945

G. B. Shaw
James Joyce
Proust
T. Mann
Joseph Conrad
Faulkner
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
Kafka
Chekhov
O'Neill
Henry James
Kipling
J. Dewey
A. N. Whitehead
B. Russell
Santayana
E. Gilson
J.-P. Sartre
J. Ortega y Gasset
Max Planck
N. Bohr
E. Schrodinger
J. H. Woodger
J.H. Poincare
T. Dobzhansky
G. Sorel
Trotsky
Lenin
W. Sumner
Max Weber
R. H. Tawney
T. Veblen
J. M. Keynes

1945-1977

A. Camus
G. Orwell
T. Pynchon
Solzhenitsyn
S. Bellow
S. Beckett
Wittgenstein
Heidegger
M. Buber
W. Heisenberg
J. Monod
R. P. Feynman
S. Hawking
A. Toynbee
C. Levi-Strauss
F. Braudel
E. Le Roy Ladurie


                                     Ken Martindale


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