Canon of Philosophy and Science

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Ancient

Plato, The Republic (375 BC)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (340 BC)
Lucretius: De Rerum Natura/ On the Nature of Things (55 BC)

Medieval

St. Augustine, City of God (425)

20th Century


21st Century

Note: these selections are obviously even more tentative than those for the 20th century.