Social Contract


Development of Chinese Civil Society


The Sage Will Commit Evil Deeds


Plato's Ideal State


Plato’s Apology


Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics


Quran


Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolution

 


Origin of Species


John Locke


The Book of Job


A Brief History of Time


1984 and Brave New World


A Satire on Evolution - Samuel Butler's Erewhon

 


Shakespeare’s Hamlet : The Text Whose Fate Cries Out

 


To Grow or Not to Grow


Marx and Smith: Labor, Capital, and What It Means to be Human

 


The Origin of Species: Darwin, History, Pathogens and Sex

 


The Education of Love: Plato's Symposium

 


Laozi's Daodejing

 


Nicolaus Copernius, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

 


Aristotle's The Nichomachean Ethics

 


The Bible


Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis

 


The Epic of Gilgamesh


What is Enlightenment? From Immanuel Kant to Michel Foucault

 


Incompleteness: Godel, Escher, Bach and Godel's Proof

 


Erwin Schrödinger, Mind & Matter