The Sacred Scrolls

A Compendium of Nashville Great Books Reading Lists:

Fall, 1990

Bible -	Ecclesiastes
Sophocles -	Oedipus the King
Freud -	On Dreams
Kafka -	Metamorphosis
Goethe -	Faust, Part One
Kant -	First Principles of Morals
Flaubert -	A Simple Heart
Hume -	Of Personal Identity
Nietzsche -	Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Dante -	The Inferno
Burke -	Reflections on the Revolution in France
Adams -	The Education of Henry Adams
Shakespeare -	King Lear
Aristotle -	On Tragedy
Plato -	The Republic

Fall,1989

Schopenhauer -	The Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature
Euripides -	Medea
Weber -	The Spirit of Capitalism
Moliere -	The Misanthrope
Gibbon -	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Bible -	Job
Mill -	Utilitarianism
George Bernard Shaw -	Caesar and Cleopatra
St. Augustine -	The City of God
Plato -	Symposium
Montaigne -	Of Experience
Diderot -	Rameau's Nephew
Shakespeare -	The Tempest
Hamilton, Jay, Madison -	The Federalist
Gogol -	The Overcoat

Fall, 1988

Dewey -	Habits and Will
J.S. Mill -	On Liberty
Shakespeare -	Hamlet
Bible -	The Gospel of Mark
Thucydides -	History of the Peloponnesian War
Clausewitz -	What is War?
Chekov -	Uncle Vanya
Maimonides -	On Evil
Homer -	The Iliad
Montesquieu -	The Principles of Government
Chaucer -	The Canterbury Tales
Aeschylus -	Agamemnon
William James -	The Beast in the Jungle
Machiavelli -	The Prince
Tolstoy -	The Death of Ivan Ilych

Fall, 1987

Plato -	The Crito
Dewey -	The Virtues
Euripides -	Iphigeneia at Aulis
Aristotle -	Politics
Dostoevsky -	Notes from the Underground
Bible -	Exodus
Hobbes -	Origin of Government
Melville -	Billy Budd, Sailor
Adam Smith -	The Wealth of Nations
Shakespeare -	Antony and Cleopatra
Kierkegaard -	The Knight of Faith
Herodotus -	The Persian Wars
Locke -	Of Civil Government
Swift -	Gulliver's Travels
Thoreau -	On Civil Disobedience

Fall, 1986

Chekhov -	Rothchild's Fiddle
Aristotle -	On Happiness
Plato -	The Apology
Conrad -	Heart of Darkness
Kant -	Conscience
Marx -	Alienated Labor
Bible -	Genesis
Freud -	Civilization and Its Discontents
Rousseau -	The Social Contract
Darwin -	The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
Shakespeare -	Othello
Hume -	Of Justice and Injustice
Tocqueville -	The Power of the Majority
Simmel -	Individual Freedom
Sophocles -	Antigone