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What are the essential masterpieces everyone should read in order to gain knowledge and insight--both non-fiction and fiction.
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im in highschool but im trying to make it through the college bound reading list and it has some really good books on it
Reading List for College-Bound Students*
The 10 Most Recommended Authors by American Colleges and Universities
William Shakespeare
William Faulkner
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
Homer
Mark Twain
Sophocles
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 100 Most Recommended Works (plus a few alternate suggestions)
Novels and Short Stories
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain; Notes to a Native Son.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.
Brontë, Charlotte. Wuthering Heights.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
Carroll, Lewis. Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia; Death Comes to the Archbishop.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. The Sharer; Lord Jim.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoevski, Feodor. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and Fury; âThe Bear;â As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Forester, E.M. A Passage to India; A Room with a View; Howardâs End.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the DâUrbervilles; The Return of the Native.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farwell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw; Portrait of a Lady.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses; The Dubliners.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial; Metamorphosis.
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt; Main Street.
Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant.
Mann Thomas. Death in Venice.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Morrison, Toni. Sula; Beloved.
OâConnor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm; 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Great Tales and Poems.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe; Heart of Midlothian.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row; The Pearl.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliverâs Travels.
Thackery, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace; Anna Karenina.
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run.
Voltaire. Candide.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five; Catâs Cradle.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Welty, Eudora. Thirteen Stories.
Wharton, Edit. The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse; A Room of Oneâs Own.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
Drama
Aeschylus. Orestia.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children.
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard; The Three Sisters.
Euripides. Medea; TheBacchae.
Goethe, Johann von. Faust, Part I.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Dollâs House.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Molière. The Misanthrope; Tartuffe.
OâNeill, Eugene. Desire Under the Elms; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Arms and the Man.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex; Antigone.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermereâs Fan.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Poetry
Allison, Alexander, ed. Norton Anthology of Poetry (Shorter Edition).
Anonymous. Beowulf.
Anonymous. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales.
Dante. Inferno.
Homer. The Odyssey; The Iliad.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost.
Vergil. The Aeneid.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.
Miscellaneous
Aristotle. Poetics.
Augustine, Saint. Confessions.
Bible.
Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species; The Voyage of the Beagle.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. âThe American Scholarâ in Essays; âSelf-Reliance.â
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography.
Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents.
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology.
Machiavelli, Noccolò. The Prince.
Marx, Karl. Communist Manifesto.
Montaigne, Michel de. Selected Essays.
Plato. Republic; Apology.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; Civil Disobedience.
im about half way through and i feel ive learned a
im in highschool but im trying to make it through the college bound reading list and it has some really good books on it
Reading List for College-Bound Students*
The 10 Most Recommended Authors by American Colleges and Universities
William Shakespeare
William Faulkner
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
Homer
Mark Twain
Sophocles
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 100 Most Recommended Works (plus a few alternate suggestions)
Novels and Short Stories
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice; Emma
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain; Notes to a Native Son.
Bellow, Saul. Seize the Day.
Brontë, Charlotte. Wuthering Heights.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
Carroll, Lewis. Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia; Death Comes to the Archbishop.
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quixote.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. The Sharer; Lord Jim.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations; David Copperfield; A Tale of Two Cities.
Dostoevski, Feodor. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch.
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and Fury; âThe Bear;â As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones; Joseph Andrews.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary.
Forester, E.M. A Passage to India; A Room with a View; Howardâs End.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the DâUrbervilles; The Return of the Native.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Farwell to Arms; The Sun Also Rises.
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw; Portrait of a Lady.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses; The Dubliners.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial; Metamorphosis.
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers; Women in Love.
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt; Main Street.
Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant.
Mann Thomas. Death in Venice.
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick.
Morrison, Toni. Sula; Beloved.
OâConnor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find.
Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm; 1984.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Great Tales and Poems.
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe; Heart of Midlothian.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row; The Pearl.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliverâs Travels.
Thackery, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair.
Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace; Anna Karenina.
Turgenev, Ivan. Fathers and Sons.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Updike, John. Rabbit, Run.
Voltaire. Candide.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five; Catâs Cradle.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple.
Welty, Eudora. Thirteen Stories.
Wharton, Edit. The Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth; Ethan Frome.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse; A Room of Oneâs Own.
Wright, Richard. Native Son.
Drama
Aeschylus. Orestia.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children.
Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard; The Three Sisters.
Euripides. Medea; TheBacchae.
Goethe, Johann von. Faust, Part I.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Dollâs House.
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.
Molière. The Misanthrope; Tartuffe.
OâNeill, Eugene. Desire Under the Elms; The Emperor Jones; The Hairy Ape.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet.
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion; Saint Joan; Arms and the Man.
Sophocles. Oedipus Rex; Antigone.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermereâs Fan.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.
Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie.
Poetry
Allison, Alexander, ed. Norton Anthology of Poetry (Shorter Edition).
Anonymous. Beowulf.
Anonymous. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales.
Dante. Inferno.
Homer. The Odyssey; The Iliad.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost.
Vergil. The Aeneid.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.
Miscellaneous
Aristotle. Poetics.
Augustine, Saint. Confessions.
Bible.
Darwin, Charles. Origin of Species; The Voyage of the Beagle.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. âThe American Scholarâ in Essays; âSelf-Reliance.â
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography.
Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents.
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology.
Machiavelli, Noccolò. The Prince.
Marx, Karl. Communist Manifesto.
Montaigne, Michel de. Selected Essays.
Plato. Republic; Apology.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; Civil Disobedience.
im about half way through and i feel ive learned a
What is an evolutionist's response to the moral argument?
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when i say moral argument what i mean is when creationists argue that evolution doesnt' explain why humans have a sense of justice or a conscience.
Answer
I have never heard a good answer from the evolutionists. I will keep checking back to see if one can give you a good answer.
Could non-moral matter combined with time and chance be an adequate cause for this? If people are merely products of physical evolution and âsurvival of the fittest,â why do we sacrifice for each other? Where does courage, dying for a cause, love, dignity, duty, and compassion come from? This seems to be the opposite of what evolution would produce; in a struggle for survival, will the existence of a conscience help or hinder survival?
How does "survival of the fittest" fit with jumping on a grenade to save your fellow soldiers? Or pushing someone out of the way to take the oncoming car yourself? It is often the strong who do these things. How can you procreate and pass your genes on to your offspring if you are dead?
As John Adam has said, â...according to the evolutionary principle of survival of the fittest, a loving human with a conscience is at a great disadvantage and would be unlikely to have survived the evolutionary process.â
It fits much better that there is a moral God who placed morals within us. As C. S. Lewis said, âHuman beings all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.â Where did this moral nature, this sense of âoughtnessâ come from?
You see, there arises in all of us, in any culture, universal feelings of right and wrong. Wherever you go, people in every place and every walk of life, say things like: âThatâs not fair.â âHow would you like it if someone did that to you?â âThatâs my seat, I was there first.â âCome on, you promised.â When people say things like that, they are appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which they expect the other person to know.
The other person doesnât say, âforget your standard,â but almost always tries to make an excuse to show that they really didnât go against the standard. And then comes the argument between these two people. It is clear that they both believe in a standard or they couldnât argue about it. You canât argue that a football player committed a foul unless there is some agreement about the rules of football.
If morality is simply something learned from our culture, as they want us to believe, then why are the moral teachings of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Indians, Greeks and Romans so very similar? Has there ever been a culture where people were admired for running away in battle? Or admired for being selfish? In the words of Thomas Mayberry, âThere is broad agreement that lying, promise breaking, killing, and so on are generally wrong.â
And whenever you find someone who says they donât believe in right or wrong, you will find them going back on it a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you break one to him, he will immediately be complaining âItâs not fair!â Even a thief gets upset and feels wronged when someone steals from him. As it has been said, âIf there is no God, no atheist can object on moral grounds if I want to kill him.â
I had an atheist friend some years back that I would always argue creation/evolution with. One day he came in and told me how mad he got from watching a documentary on the Holocaust. I canât remember exactly what I said, but I thought, âWhy are you so mad; itâs just survival of the fittest, right? You donât even believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.â You see, no matter how much he denies it, he feels that standard as well as I do.
I have never heard a good answer from the evolutionists. I will keep checking back to see if one can give you a good answer.
Could non-moral matter combined with time and chance be an adequate cause for this? If people are merely products of physical evolution and âsurvival of the fittest,â why do we sacrifice for each other? Where does courage, dying for a cause, love, dignity, duty, and compassion come from? This seems to be the opposite of what evolution would produce; in a struggle for survival, will the existence of a conscience help or hinder survival?
How does "survival of the fittest" fit with jumping on a grenade to save your fellow soldiers? Or pushing someone out of the way to take the oncoming car yourself? It is often the strong who do these things. How can you procreate and pass your genes on to your offspring if you are dead?
As John Adam has said, â...according to the evolutionary principle of survival of the fittest, a loving human with a conscience is at a great disadvantage and would be unlikely to have survived the evolutionary process.â
It fits much better that there is a moral God who placed morals within us. As C. S. Lewis said, âHuman beings all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.â Where did this moral nature, this sense of âoughtnessâ come from?
You see, there arises in all of us, in any culture, universal feelings of right and wrong. Wherever you go, people in every place and every walk of life, say things like: âThatâs not fair.â âHow would you like it if someone did that to you?â âThatâs my seat, I was there first.â âCome on, you promised.â When people say things like that, they are appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which they expect the other person to know.
The other person doesnât say, âforget your standard,â but almost always tries to make an excuse to show that they really didnât go against the standard. And then comes the argument between these two people. It is clear that they both believe in a standard or they couldnât argue about it. You canât argue that a football player committed a foul unless there is some agreement about the rules of football.
If morality is simply something learned from our culture, as they want us to believe, then why are the moral teachings of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Indians, Greeks and Romans so very similar? Has there ever been a culture where people were admired for running away in battle? Or admired for being selfish? In the words of Thomas Mayberry, âThere is broad agreement that lying, promise breaking, killing, and so on are generally wrong.â
And whenever you find someone who says they donât believe in right or wrong, you will find them going back on it a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you break one to him, he will immediately be complaining âItâs not fair!â Even a thief gets upset and feels wronged when someone steals from him. As it has been said, âIf there is no God, no atheist can object on moral grounds if I want to kill him.â
I had an atheist friend some years back that I would always argue creation/evolution with. One day he came in and told me how mad he got from watching a documentary on the Holocaust. I canât remember exactly what I said, but I thought, âWhy are you so mad; itâs just survival of the fittest, right? You donât even believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.â You see, no matter how much he denies it, he feels that standard as well as I do.
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