Tag Archives: Immanuel Kant

Back to Great Books Monday

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

It’s Great Books Monday once again! I can say that with this post, the first Great Books post I’ve made on a Monday in months, it seems. Let’s celebrate by reading both Plato and Aristotle this week. Here are the … Continue reading →

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The Christmas Carol Before “A Christmas Carol”

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

I’m clawing my way back towards a Great Books Monday post. Making up two days this week is a good start. The prospect of finishing The Critique of Pure Reason is a powerful motivator to get started on this week’s … Continue reading →

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Killing Your Children to Get Revenge on Your Husband Is a Bad Idea

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

Some weeks I find my slate of scheduled Great Books readings moderately interesting. Other weeks I’m blown away by the profound ideas I encounter in multiple authors. I’m happy to say that this past week fell into the second category. … Continue reading →

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The Prime Mover

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Now that you are all shopped out following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, surely you’re ready to settle back down to some good reading this week, right? Fortunately for you, this week’s Great Books readings include some Greek tragedy, Stoic … Continue reading →

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Oedipus: The Hardest-Luck Guy in Literature

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

Welcome to this week’s post in the Great Books Project. We are in the middle of five long works at the moment, but we will be finishing Aristotle’s Physics this week. Here are the readings for the coming week: The … Continue reading →

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Does Motion Have a Beginning?

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

I haven’t made up any days in the Great Books schedule this week, but at least I haven’t lost any, either. We’re in the middle of some dense works, but we’ll lighten it up with some Dickens this week. Here … Continue reading →

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Do Russian Authors Ever Write Happy Stories?

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

I’ve been limping through last week’s Great Books readings over the last ten days (no, it’s not the result of watching election coverage) and am finally ready to post on them. I have some catching up to do (Kant is … Continue reading →

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Leaving Eden

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

It looks like I’m just barely going to make an actual Great Books Monday post this week. The big news is that, after wrapping up Paradise Lost last week, we embark today on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which … Continue reading →

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Suffrage Doesn’t Preserve Liberty

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

In the Great Books Project this week, we will wrap up the English language’s greatest poem as well as one of the English language’s funniest plays. We’ll also embark on a reading of one of the most important scientific works … Continue reading →

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Space and Time: A Priori Intuitions?

Posted on October 15, 2012 by

On this Great Books Monday, I’ve been ruminating on the difficulty of some of the works we’re going through. Seriously, Aristotle’s Physics and Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason are pretty dense. I’ve had to remind myself that part of analytical … Continue reading →

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