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Ever Wonder How They Figured Out Pi?
This week in the Great Books Project you have a chance to remedy that gaping hole in your education. I refer, of course, to your most likely never having read a masque before. Therefore, I give you John Milton. Here … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Edward Gibbon, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Great Books, John Milton, Montaigne
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Archimedes Breaks Things
I failed to mention last week that we have passed the 17,000-page mark in our Great Books Project. With all the works we’ve completed or are about to complete this month, it got lost in the shuffle. Let’s celebrate with … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Cervantes, Descartes, Great Books, Henry Fielding, Plutarch, Thomas Aquinas
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Being an Emperor’s Heir is a Dangerous Job
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Epictetus, G.W.F. Hegel, Great Books, Luigi Pirandello, Tacitus, Thorstein Veblen
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Faust Was a Keynesian
I confess that there have been a few times since beginning this Great Books project that I’ve looked at my reading list for the week with trepidation, as a chore to be accomplished. This past week, though, I kept on … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Daniel Defoe, Federalist Papers, George Santayana, Goethe, Great Books, Herodotus, Plato
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