BiblioFiles #90: The Good Society

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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