Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life

Professor Fears presents his choices from some of the most essential writings in history, ranging in time from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America. He focuses on intellectual history and ethics, taking underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and ethical life.

Course Lecture Titles

36 Lectures
30 minutes / lecture

Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison
Homer, Iliad
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Bhagavad Gita
Book of Exodus
Gospel of Mark
Koran
Gilgamesh
Beowulf
Book of Job
Aeschylus, Oresteia
Euripides, Bacchae
Plato, Phaedo
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
George Orwell, 1984
Vergil, Aeneid
Pericles, Oration; Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Confucius, The Analects
Machiavelli, The Prince
Plato, Republic
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Sir Thomas Malory, Morte d'Arthur
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part 2
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Lord Acton, The History of Freedom
Cicero, On Moral Duties (De Officiis)
Gandhi, An Autobiography
Churchill, My Early Life; Painting as a Pastime; WWII
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