Online Library of Liberty - Goodrich Seminar Room

Pierre Goodrich, the founder of Liberty Fund, Inc, put together a list of the most important individuals and texts which he believed had contributed most to our understanding of liberty and individual responsibility. These names are engraved on the limestone walls of the Goodrich Seminar Room in the Lilly Library at Wabash College, Indiana. These same authors and texts make up the core of the Online Library of Liberty. The list of names below give some idea of the range of interests Goodrich had.

See our online version of the Goodrich Seminar Room at this site or take A Virtual Tour of the Goodrich Seminar Room in the Lilly Library at Wabash College, Indiana, and the biography of Pierre Goodrich by Dane Starbuck.

92 People in this Group:

sort name	name ↓	birth	death
Zarathushtra	Zarathushtra (Zoroaster)	628 BC	522 BC
Shakespeare	William Shakespeare	1564	1616
Virgil	Virgil	70 BC	19 BC
Urukagina	Urukagina	2350 BC	?
Thucydides	Thucydides	460 BC	400 BC
Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson	1743	1826
Aquinas T	St. Thomas Aquinas	1225	1274
Sophocles	Sophocles	496 BC	406 BC
Socrates	Socrates	470 BC	399 BC
Sturlason S	Snorre Sturlason	1179	1241
Blackstone W	Sir William Blackstone	1723	1780
Newton	Sir Isaac Newton	1642	1727
Coke	Sir Edward Coke	1552	1634
Paul Saint	Saint Paul	10 AD	67 AD
Matthew	Saint Matthew	1 AD	—
Mark	Saint Mark	1 AD	—
Luke	Saint Luke	1 AD	—
John	Saint John	1 AD	—
Assisi F	Saint Francis of Assisi	1181	1226
Benedict St.	Saint Benedict	480 AD	547 AD
Bede	Saint Bede	672 AD	735 AD
Augustine	Saint Augustine	354 AD	430 AD
Anselm	Saint Anselm	1033	1109
Rhazes	Rhazes	865 AD	923 AD
Tacitus	Publius Cornelius Tacitus	56 AD	120 AD
Plutarch	Plutarch	46 AD	125 AD
Plotinus	Plotinus	205 AD	270 AD
Plato	Plato	429 BC	347 BC
Origen	Origen	185 AD	254 AD
Maimonides	Moses Maimonides	1135	1204
Moses	Moses	1300 BC	?
Mohammed	Mohammed	570 AD	632 AD
Misc (Upanishads)	Misc (Upanishads)	?	—
Misc (Roman Chant)	Misc (Roman Chant)	?	—
Misc (Rigveda)	Misc (Rigveda)	?	—
Misc (Reformation Chorale)	Misc (Reformation Chorale)	?	—
Misc (Mahabharata)	Misc (Mahabharata)	?	—
Misc (Magna Carta)	Misc (Magna Carta)	?	—
Misc (Declaration of Independence)	Misc (Declaration of Independence)	1776
Misc	Misc (Confucian School)	?	—
Micah	Micah	800 BC	?
Mencius	Mencius	371 BC	289 BC
Luther	Martin Luther	1483	1546
Cicero	Marcus Tullius Cicero	106 BC	43 BC
Lao Tzu	Lao Tzu	600 BC	—
David	King David	1010 BC	970 BC
Kalidasa	Kalidasa	500 AD	500 AD
Wyclife	John Wyclife	1330	1384
Robinson John	John Robinson	1575	1625
Milton	John Milton	1608	1674
Locke	John Locke	1632	1704
Calvin	John Calvin	1509	1564
Goethe J	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749	1832
Job	Job	600 BC	?
Christ	Jesus Christ	3 BC	30 AD
Jeremiah	Jeremiah	7 BC	—
Huss J	Jan Huss	1372	1415
Isaiah	Isaiah	800 BC	?
Kant	Immanuel Kant	1724	1804
Zwingli	Huldrych Zwingli	1484	1531
Grotius	Hugo Grotius	1583	1645
Hosea	Hosea	800 BC	?
Homer	Homer	900 BC	900 BC
Hippocrates	Hippocrates	460 BC	377 BC
Hesiod	Hesiod	700 BC	700 BC
Hammurabi	Hammurabi	1792 BC	1750 BC
Savonarola	Girolamo Savonarola	1452	1498
Gilgamesh	Gilgamesh	?	2700 BC
Chaucer	Geoffrey Chaucer	1340	1400
Galilei	Galileo Galilei	1564	1642
Galen	Galen	129 AD	199 AD
Gaius	Gaius	130 AD	180 AD
Petrarch	Francesco Petrarch	1304	1374
Euclid	Euclid	365 BC	300 BC
Epictetus	Epictetus	55 AD	135 AD
Burke	Edmund Burke	1729	1797
Erasmus	Desiderius Erasmus	1466	1536
Hume	David Hume	1711	1776
Dante	Dante Alighieri	1265	1321
Confucius	Confucius	551 BC	479 BC
Njal B	Burnt Njal	?	—
Buddha	Buddha	560 BC	480 BC
Boethius	Boethius	470 AD	524 AD
Beowulf	Beowulf	800 AD	?
Averroes (Ibn Rushd)	Averroes (Ibn Rushd)	1126	1198
Aristotle	Aristotle	384 BC	322 BC
Archimedes	Archimedes	290 BC
Amos	Amos	800 BC	?
Ambrose	Ambrose	339 AD	397 AD
Al Ghazali	Al Ghazali	1058	1111
Aeschylus	Aeschylus	525 BC	456 BC
Smith Adam	Adam Smith	1723	1790