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Inspired by an article about St. John's College in Quartz, I am curating a list of seminal works and teaching methods.
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War and Peace
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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The Republic
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The Prince
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Politics
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3.98 avg rating — 43,659 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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3.89 avg rating — 35,942 ratings
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
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Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
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4.19 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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4.23 avg rating — 38,421 ratings
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Enchiridion
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The Discourses
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Discourses and Selected Writings
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4.39 avg rating — 12,880 ratings
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
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3.93 avg rating — 1,564 ratings
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Of Human Freedom
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4.16 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
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The Essential Writings
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4.21 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 571,300 ratings
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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Poetics
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3.83 avg rating — 30,603 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic
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4.22 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Selected Speeches and Writings
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4.22 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The History of Rome. With English notes, marginal references, and various readings. VOL. I, PART I
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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German Ideology
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4.13 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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Apology
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4.19 avg rating — 70,188 ratings
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Apology
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
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3.79 avg rating — 19,453 ratings
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The Social Contract, a Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and a Discourse on Political Economy
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3.81 avg rating — 437 ratings
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Understanding Supreme Court Opinions
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3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE- SELECTED READINGS AND SUPREME COURT OPINIONS
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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City of God
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3.95 avg rating — 14,068 ratings
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Two Classics of the French Revolution: Reflections on the Revolution in France/The Rights of Man
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3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,492,816 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 327,682 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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4.21 avg rating — 66,591 ratings
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Principles of Economics
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4.30 avg rating — 732 ratings
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The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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4.38 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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The Inner Citadel: Essays on Individual Autonomy
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Tao Te Ching (River Drafting Spirit Series Book 8)
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4.29 avg rating — 186,797 ratings
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The Spirit of the Laws
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3.98 avg rating — 5,459 ratings
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Sophocles: Ajax (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
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3.92 avg rating — 7,344 ratings
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Sophocles: Ajax
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
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3.93 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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3.95 avg rating — 41,337 ratings
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