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		<title>Fiddling While Rome Burned?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 03:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we’ve finished Dante’s epic, we can read commentary on it from one of the 20th century’s great minds. It’s a nice way to pass our 4,000th page of Imaginative Literature this week. Here are the readings for the &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/fiddling-while-rome-burned/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2514&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Smile at Your Childish Thought&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to a very tardy Great Books post. This week we take a break from Epictetus in order to read a short treatise by Aristotle (yes, such a thing does exist). Here are the readings for the coming week: The &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/i-smile-at-your-childish-thought/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2510&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Psychoanalysts Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 06:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many do you think it takes? (Get it?) Here are the readings for the coming week: The Divine Comedy: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri, Cantos I-XVI (GBWW Vol. 19, pp. 90-111) “In How Many Ways Appearances Exist” by Epictetus (GBWW &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/how-many-psychoanalysts-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2506&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If the World Stinks, It&#8217;s Not God&#8217;s Fault</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we pass 13,000 pages in the Great Books Project. And I don’t care who you are; you have to admit that a program where you read Dante, Freud, and Plato all in the same week is at least &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/if-the-world-stinks-its-not-gods-fault/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2502&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Only Counts If Others Are Watching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we are closing in on 13,000 pages of total reading in the Great Books Project. Simply typing that makes me tired. Here are the readings for the coming week: The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Cantos I-XVI &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/it-only-counts-if-others-are-watching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2498&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Midway in the Journey of Our Life I Found Myself in a Dark Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that reading the Great Books inevitably affects other areas of your life?For example, the most pressing question I’m dealing with after beginning Dante last week is whether this thing deserves my attention. (OK, actually that’s not the &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/midway-in-the-journey-of-our-life-i-found-myself-in-a-dark-wood/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2493&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is &#8220;The Great Refusal&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the comparisons between Popes Benedict XVI and Celestine V that have been floating around recently, I couldn&#8217;t help but take special note of a particular passage from Dante&#8217;s &#8220;Inferno,&#8221; which I&#8217;m reading this week as part of my &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/what-is-the-great-refusal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2488&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Preference and Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 7 of the Mises Institute&#8217;s Home Study Course in Austrian Economics includes one audio lecture and three book chapters dealing with time preference and interest. &#8220;Time Preference and Interest&#8221; by Jeffrey Herbener: This lecture has a good summary of Ludwig &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/time-preference-and-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2448&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being an Emperor&#8217;s Heir is a Dangerous Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I wasn’t paying attention last week, we passed the 3,000-page mark in the Man and Society category of the Great Books Project. We should hit 13,000 pages overall in the next few weeks. Here are the readings for the &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/being-an-emperors-heir-is-a-dangerous-job/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2481&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Page in the Reading Economics Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited (or at least long-delayed) page listing the works in the Reading Economics Project is now live on the site. It is still incomplete, but it had been on the drawing board long enough (I made the initial draft &#8230; <a href="http://westerntradition.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/new-page-in-the-reading-economics-project/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westerntradition.wordpress.com&#038;blog=14786058&#038;post=2475&#038;subd=westerntradition&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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