Britannica Great Books 54 volumes 1952 complete set

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Britannica Great Books 54 volumes 1952 View My Other interesting items Here's your chance to own the Britannica Great Books set - the first edition from 1952, in 54 decorative hardcover volumes.The books are in very good condition. One of the introductory volumes has a chip at the top of the spine. This is the worst problem on any of the books in the set. A few others have minor loss or chips at the top of the spine. The interior condition of all the books is fine.Please note: This set sold a while back, but the buyer asked to cancel the transaction before we shipped them. So all you watchers get a second chance.Here are the complete contents (from Wikipedia)Originally published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months compiling references to such topics as "Man's freedom in relation to the will of God" and "The denial of void or vacuum in favor of a plenum". They grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote 102 introductions. The volumes contained the following works:Volume 1 * The Great ConversationVolume 2 * Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and LoveVolume 3 * Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and WorldVolume 4 * Homer o The Iliad o The OdysseyVolume 5 * Aeschylus o The Suppliant Maidens o The Persians o Seven Against Thebes o Prometheus Bound o The Oresteia + Agamemnon + Choephoroe + The Eumenides * Sophocles o The Oedipus Cycle + Oedipus the King + Oedipus at Colonus + Antigone o Ajax o Electra o The Trachiniae o Philoctetes * Euripides o Rhesus o Medea o Hippolytus o Alcestis o Heracleidae o The Suppliants o Trojan Women o Ion o Helen o Andromache o Electra o Bacchantes o Hecuba o Heracles Mad o Phoenician Women o Orestes o Iphigeneia in Tauris o Iphigeneia at Aulis o Cyclops * Aristophanes o The Acharnians o The Knights o The Clouds o The Wasps o Peace o The Birds o The Frogs o Lysistrata o Thesmophoriazusae o Ecclesiazousae o PlutusVolume 6 * Herodotus o The History * Thucydides o The History of the Peloponnesian WarVolume 7 * Plato o Charmides o Lysis o Laches o Protagoras o Euthydemus o Cratylus o Phaedrus o Ion o Symposium o Meno o Euthyphro o Apology o Crito o Phaedo o Gorgias o The Republic o Timaeus o Critias... read more

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