Study Plan
This page will serve as my roadmap for my self-directed study. I intend to mostly focus on philosophy, theology, and history (pertaining to the Catholic Church and Western Civilization more broadly). I will also include notes on Latin as I learn the language and continue my study through Veterum Sapientia Insitute.
This is my own formulation, and as this is the beginning of my journey, any reader should know that I am currently an idiot, though I hope to become less so over time.
Road Map
- Foundational
- Introductory Philosophy
- Introduction to Philosophy by Jacques Maritain
- The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson
- Logic
- Socratic Logic by Peter Kreeft
- A Brief Text-Book of Logic and Mental Philosophy by Rev. Charles Coppens, S.J.
- Theology
- Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott
- Introduction to Moral Theology by Fr Romanus Cessario
- Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed
- Latin
- Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Hans Ørberg
- English Grammar for Students of Latin by Norma W. Goldman
- Lingua Latina: A Companion to Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Jeanne Marie Neumann
- Introductory Philosophy
- Phase I
- Apology by Plato
- Phaedo by Plato
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- Confessions by St. Augustine
- De Doctrina Christiana by St. Augustine
- Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- Proslogion by St. Anselm
- Phase II
- Organon by Aristotle
- Republic by Plato
- Oration by Gregory of Nazianzus
- Summa Theologiae (Book I) by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Fides et Ratio by St. John Paul II
- Phase III
- Summa Contra Gentiles by St. Thomas Aquinas
- Verbum by Bernard Lonergan
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Iliad by Homer