Get Cultured Fast: Outline of Great Books

If you want to be more cultured in a day, I recommend a highly useful and enjoyable website. On PublicBookshelf.com, you’ll find Outline of Great Books, Volume 1.

There you’ll find overviews of under a thousand words on a broad variety of topics across millennia of literature, including Herodotus’s History; Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Plato’s Apology, Republic, and Symposium; Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics; Epictetus’s Discourses; Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations; Thomas More’s Utopia; Machiavelli’s The Prince; Rene Descartes’s Discourse on Method; Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan;  Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics; John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Jean Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract; Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations; Immanuel Kant’s The Critique of Practical Reason; Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man; John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty; and Herbert Spencer’s First Principles of Sociology, among many others.


Need I say more?