At CenterForLit we love talking about how literature describes human nature as it manifests inside the individual heart. But the general state of the world has us thinking it might be a good time to revisit another popular theme in the Great Books: the Good Society. In this episode we’re looking at what the tradition has to say about when man comes together in organized community.
Referenced Works:
– The Republic of Plato
– Utopia by Sir Thomas More
– Watership Down by Richard Adams
– Lord of the Flies by William Golding
– “The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months” by Rutger Bregman
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
– Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
– 1984 by George Orwell
– The Federalist Papers by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison
– The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
– Foundation by Isaac Asimov
– Dune by Frank Herbert
– The City of God by Augustine
– Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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