THE INTELLECTUAL ™ DEVOTIONAL Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class DAVID S. KIDDER & NOAH D. OPPENHEIM Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Week 1 The Alphabet Ulysses Lascaux Cave Paintings Cloning The Basics of Music Appearance and Reality Torah Week 2 Hammurabi’s Code of Laws Ernest Hemingway Bust of Nefertiti Eratosthenes Melody Socrates Noah Week 3 Sparta vs. Athens: The Battle for the Ancient World The Harlem Renaissance The Parthenon The Solar System Harmony Plato Cain and Abel Week 4 Alexander the Great Paradise Lost Venus de Milo The Greenhouse Effect Medieval/Early Church Music Forms Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Week 5 Julius Caesar Homer Hagia Sophia Black Holes Instruments and Ensembles Plato’s Cave Allegory Sarah Week 6 Rosetta Stone Heart of Darkness Byzantine Art Supernova Renaissance Music Aristotle Sodom and Gomorrah Week 7 Emperor Constantine Modernism Gothic Art Nociception: The Perception of Pain Baroque Period Metaphysics Joseph Week 8 The Spread of Islam Catch-22 The Cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris The Placebo Effect Form Matter/Form Theory Moses Week 9 Charlemagne Gabriel García Márquez Renaissance Art Mendelian Genetics Antonio Vivaldi Logic King David Week 10 Magna Carta “Ozymandias” The Birth of Venus Surface Tension and Hydrogen Bonding The Four Seasons Stoics King Solomon Week 11 Genghis Khan William Faulkner Leonardo da Vinci Earthquakes Henry Purcell Epicureanism The Temple and the Holy Ark Week 12 The Black Death The Great Gatsby The Last Supper Sunspots and Solar Flares Johann Sebastian Bach Medieval Philosophy Talmud Week 13 Joan of Arc John Steinbeck Mona Lisa The Milgram Studies: Lessons in Obedience Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach Arguments for the Existence of God Kabbalah Week 14 The Italian Renaissance Don Quixote Albrecht Dürer Galileo Galilei George Frideric Handel Skepticism Hasidism Week 15 The Reconquista The Canterbury Tales Michelangelo Static Electricity Handel’s Messiah René Descartes Jesus Christ Week 16 The Spanish Inquisition The Divine Comedy David The Ozone Layer Musical Genres Cogito, Ergo Sum Sermon on the Mount Week 17 Martin Luther Beowulf The Sistine Chapel Radiocarbon Dating Classical Period The Mind/Body Problem The Good Samaritan Week 18 Spain in the New World Salman Rushdie Raphael Albert Einstein Franz Joseph Haydn Baruch Spinoza Apostles Week 19 British Settlement in North America Pride and Prejudice Baroque Art Charles Darwin and Natural Selection Haydn’s London Symphonies A Priori Knowledge Mary Magdalene Week 20 The Peace of Westphalia Candide Rembrandt Gravity Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Last Supper Week 21 Louis XIV of France Postmodernism Girl with a Pearl Earring Vaccines Mozart’s Requiem Mass Time The Crucifixion of Jesus Week 22 Peter the Great Brave New World The Taj Mahal Marie Curie Mozart’s Don Giovanni Epistemology The Resurrection of Jesus Week 23 Benjamin Franklin Postcolonialism Hokusai Hypnosis Sonata Form John Locke The Gospels Week 24 George Washington Anton Chekhov Romanticism Cognitive Dissonance Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 and Symphony No. 41 Personal Identity Catholicism Week 25 Thomas Paine Virginia Woolf Francisco Goya Reproduction Ludwig van Beethoven Liberalism Eastern Orthodox Week 26 The French Revolution Moby-Dick Joseph Mallord William Turner Stem Cells Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 Choral Social Contract Protestant Reformation Week 27 Thomas Jefferson “The Road Not Taken” Impressionism Electromagnetic Spectrum Romantic Period George Berkeley Constantine I Week 28 Napoleon Bonaparte The Scarlet Letter Whistler’s Mother Circadian Rhythms Franz Schubert Idealism Joseph Smith and Mormonism Week 29 Irish Potato Famine Walt Whitman Edgar Degas Sleep Felix Mendelssohn David Hume Muhammad Week 30 Colonialism Charles Dickens Paul Cézanne Blood
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